Year: 1873

| as will enable their boundaries to be cas- | fly traced. The Commissioners regula- tiOns under said act, are specific in point | ing out what must be done to constitute a l legal location. Finding in some instances that neither the law nor regulations had been observed by claimants, and that the latter procure surveys for patents without any reference to boundaries formerly eS- abolished, the Commissioner has recently issued a circular stating that failure to make locations in accordance with the law and regulations in force at the date of the location, twill defeat the claim, and |" if it is not made with such defniteness Gas to operate as notice to all persons "seeking to acquire rights to mining lands, Git will be void, for uncertainty"

 When the circular is received, it will be claimants may understand what is re- quired of them, we herewith publish the paragraphs of the regulations of June 10, 1872, which govern locations, and which all applicants for patents under the act of 1872, must have compiled with in advance of an official survey:

 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 a citizen, may locate, record, and hold mining claim of fifteen hun dred linear feet along the course of any mineral vein or lode subject to location; or an association of persons, severally qualified as above, may make joint lOca- ton of such claim of fifteen hundred feet, but in no event can a location of a vein or 1~xl fifteen hundred feet along the course there of, whatever may be the number of per sons composing the association.

 With regard to the extent of surface ground adjoining vein or lode, and claimed for the convenient working there Of, the act provides that the lateral extent of locations of veins or lOdeS made after it's 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 by any min ing regulations to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where 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 parallel to each other.

 By the foregoing it will be perceived that no lode-claim located after the date of said act can exceed a parallelOgram fifteen hundred feet in length by six hundred feet

 

 that width can be taken, depends upon the local regulations or State or Territorial laws in force in the several mining dis trictS; and that no such local regulations or state or Territorial laws shall limit a vein or lode claim to less than fifteen hun dred feet along the course thereof, Wheth- CT the location is made by one or more persons, nor can surface rights be limited 10 less than fifty feet in width, unless ad verse claims existing on the 10th day of NTnx fi in1,S SI1nh lot tot necessary.

 It is provided in said act that the miners of each district may make rules and regu- latiOnS not in conflict with the laws of the United States, or of the state or Territory in which such districts are respectively sit uated, governing the location, manner of recording, and amount of work necessary to hold possession of claim. It like wise requires that the location must be so distinctly marked on the ground that it's boundaries may be readily traced. This is very important matter, and lOcatOrs cannot exercise too much care in defining their locations at the outset, inasmuch as the law requires that all records of min ing locations made subsequent to it's pas sage, shall contain the name or names of the lOcatorS, the date of the location, and such description of the claim or claims located, by reference to some natural Ob- ject or permanent monument, as will identify the claim.

 

 can be recorded until after the discovery of a vein or lode within the limits of the ground claimed; the object of which pro- vision is evidently to prevent the encum- hering of the district mining records with useless locations before sufficient work has been done thereon to determine whether vein or lode has really been discovered or not.

 The claimant should therefore, prior to recording his claim, unless the vein can be traced upon the surface, sink shaft, or run a tunnel or drift, to sufficient depth therein to discover and develop mineral bearing vein, lode, or crevice; should determine, if possible, the general course of such vein in either direction from the point of discovery, by which direction he will be governed in marking the bOunda- rieS of his claim on the surface, and should give the course and distance as nearly as practicable from the discovery shaft on the claim, to some permanent, Well-knOwn points or objects, such, for instance, as stone monuments, blaZed trees, the con- fluence of streams, point of intersection Of prominent buttes, hills, &c., which may be in the immediate vicinity, and which will serve to perpetuate and fix the locus of the claim and render 1t susceptible of Identification from the description thereof given in the record of locations in the dis trict.

 In addition to the foregoing data, the claimant should state the names of ad- joining claims, or if none adjOin, the rela- tive positions of the nearest claims; should drive a post or erect a monument of stones at each corner of his Surface-ground, and at the point of discovery shaft, should fix post, stake, or board, upon which should be designated the name of the lode, the name or names of the lOcators, the num- her nf claimed and in which Hirpo-