Year: 1873

pairing to obtain titles Co mines, and it is very important that the first steps taken should z be correct. or all subsequent labor and oN- rense on the mine may be lost. Although the MINER has previously published the reg ulAtions of the Commissioner concerning the proper course for miners to pursue in making locations, etc, we again urge them 10 he sure that they make no mistakes. The Act of May 10, 1872, gives large privileges 10 miners but the conditions of the law must be complied with The following, published in the Arizona Citizen, by John Wassou, Surveyor General of the Territory, is official inits characte, and worthy of the careful at tention of miners:

 "From and after the date of said act, any | person who is citizen of the United States | or who has declared his intention to become | s citizen, may locate, record and hold a min ing claim of fifteen hundred linear feet along the course of any mineral vein or lode sub ject to location; or an association of persons, severaly qualified as above, may make joint location of such claim of fifteen hundred feet, but in no event can location of a vein or lode made subsequent to the act exceed fifteen hundred feet along the course thereof, whatever may be the number of persons com posing the association.

 With regard to the extent of surface ground adjoining s vein or lode, and claimed for the convenient working thereof, the act provides .L-s shO f~eos.T ~See"s UI locations Ur 'eills Ur lodes made after its passage shall in no case exceed three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, and that no such surface rights shall be limited Lxt tufp ,l. ty-ive feet on each side of the middle Of the vein at the surface, except when adverse rights existing at the date of said act may render such limitation necessary, the end lines of such claims to be in all cases paral- Tel to each other.

 By the foregoing it will be perceived that no lode-claim located after the date of said act can exceed parallelogram fifteen hundred feet in length by six hundred feet in width, but whether surface ground of that width can be taken, depends upon the local regulations or State or Territorial laws in force in the several mining districts; and that no such local regulations or State OF Territorial laws shall limit a vein or lode claim to less than fifteen hundred feet along the course thereof, whether the location is made by one or more persons, nor can surface rights be limited to less than fifty feet in width, unless adverse s render such lateral limitations necessary

 It is provided in said act that the miners of each district may make rules and regulations not in conflict with the laws of the United States, or of the State or Territory in which such districts are respectively situated, gov. erning the location, manner of recording and amount of work necessary to hold possession Of claim. It likewise requires that the To- cation must be so distinctly marked on the ground that its boundaries may be readily traced. This is s very important matter, and l)cators cannot exercise too much care in de- fining their locations at the outset, inasmuch as the law requires that all records of mining locations made subsequent to its passage, shall contain the name or names of the Iocators the date of the location, and such a descrip tion of the claim or claims located, by refer ence to some natural object or permanent monument, as will identify the claim

 The same act requires that no iode-clain csn be recorded until after the discovery of vein or lode within the limits of the ground claimed the object of which provision i: evidently to prevent the encumbering of the district mining records with useless location. before sufficient work has been done thereon to determine whether a vein or lode has really } been discovered or not.

 The claimant should therefore. prior to re cording bis claim, unless the vein can b. traced on the surface, sink shaft, or run tunnel or drift, to a sufficient depth thereir to discover and develop a mineral-bearine vein, lode, or ereyice should determine i possible, the general course of such vein ir either direction from the point of discovery by which direction he will be governed ir marking the boundaries of his claim on th' surface, and should give the course and dis tance as nearly as practicable from discovery shaft on the claim, Co some permanent, well known points or objects, such, for instance, a stone monuments, blazed trees, the confuenc, ofstreams, point of intersection of well-knowI gulches, ravincs, or roads, prominent buttes hlls, etc. which nay be in the immediat vicinity, and which will serve to perpetual and fix the locus of the ella m and render i susceptible of Identification from the descrip ton thereof given in the record of location in the district.

 In addition to the foregoing data, tn claimant should state the names of adjoining claims, ar 1T none adjoin, the relative position Of the nearest claims; should drive post O erect monument of stones at each corner o his surface ground, and at the point of dis coyery shaft. ssould fix post, stake or boar, upon which should be designated the name the lode the name or names of the locator. the number of feet claimed, and in what dir ection from the point of discovery; it ben essential that the location notice filed for re cord, in addition to the foregoing description should state whether the entire claim of fftee huudred feet is taken on cne side of the poin of discovery, or whether 1t is partly upon tn other side thereof and in the latter case, hov many feet are claimed on each side of sue discovery. point.

 Within reasonable time, say twenty day sfter the location siiali have been marked 0 the ground, notice thereof, accurately descrit ing the claim in manner aforesaid, should b filed for record with the proper recorder the district, who will thereupon issue th usual certificate of location.

 In order to hold the po.sessory right to claim of fifteen hundred feet of vein or Tod located as aforesaid, the act requires that ul til patent shall have been issued thereto not less than one hundred dollars worth labor shall be performed or improvement