SECTION 3. We hereby adopt the United States Mining Laws of May 10 1872, with all acts and amendments thereto, and the Colorado Mining Laws, with the following local rules and requirements. SECTION. 4. A mining claim located after the adoption of these laws, whether located by one or more persons, may equal, but shall not exceed fifteen hundred feet in length along the vein or lode. No claim shall extend more than 150 feet on each side of the middle of the Vein, at the surface; the end lines of each claim shall be parallel to each other. SECTION. 5. Any location or certificate of location of a lode claim which shall not contain the name of the lode, the name or names of the locators, the date of location, the number of lineal feet claimed on each side of the discovery shaft, the general course of the lode, with a discovery stake that will at least square three inches, and such other description as shall identify the claim with reasonable certainty, shall be void. SECTION. 6. Such surface boundaries shall be marked by six substantial posts, hewed and marked on the side or sides which are in toward the claim, and sunk in the ground to wit: One at each corner and one in the center of each side line where it is practically imimpossible, on account of bed rock, to sink such posts, they may be placed in a pile of stone, and when in marking the surface boundaries of a claim, any one or more of such posts shall fall by right upon precipitous ground, where the proper placing of it is impracticable, or dangerous to life or limb, it shall be legal and valid to place any such posts at the nearest practical point, suitably marked to designate the proper place. SECTION. 7. In order to hold the possessory right to a claim, there shall be done not less than $100 worth of work or improvements thereon each year, and for the first year the work or improvements thereon shall be completed within sixty days from date of discovery. SECTION. 8. Any discovery shaft five feet by three and a half feet, by ten feet deep from the surface on the vein or lode, shall be considered $100 worth of work; or any open cut, cross cut or tunnel five feet in width, which shall cut a lode at the depth of ten feet below the surface, shall hold such lode the same as if a discovery shaft were sunk thereon or an adit, of at least ten feet in along the lode, by five feet wide, from the point where the lode may be in any manner discovered, shall be equivalent to a discovery shaft. SECTION. 9. The office of Recorder is hereby declared elected for this district, for the year ending August 1, 1880. SECTION. 10. It shall be the duty of the Recorder to call meetings of the miners of the district whenever a petition is hauded him signed by ten or more persons owning lode claims in this district, or the legal representatives of such lode claim owners, requesting him to give notice of such meeting for the purpose of altering or amending the laws of this district or for the consideration of miners' disputes on claims, or for the election of officers, and such notices shall be posted in at least five conspicuous places in the district for at least ten days previous to the meeting, and it shall be the duty of the Recorder to record all location notices upon the payment of his fees. He shall have the right to appoint one or more deputies and shall be entitled to the following fees: For recording quartz mining claims, coal claims, mill sites and tunnel rights, each ($2oo) two dollars, and for deeds bonds and mortgages, and other instruments of writing, one dollar for the first folio, and 50 cents for each additional folio; and certified copies of location notices shall be furnished for one dollar each. SECTION 11. Deposits of borax, coal or iron must be entered under the mining laws, under the proceedings required in cases of placer mines. [Copp's Mining decision, 194 and 235.] SECTION. 12. It shall take at least a four fifth vote from all miners present at any meeting to change, alter or amend the rules regulations or by laws of this district. CALLED MEETING At a called meeting of the Miners Association of Ruby District, August 24, 1879, a resolution was adopted denouncing all forceable settlements of miners disputes, and a board of arbitration to be appointed for this purpose, in case of all disputes and differences as to claims and locations SUMMIT COUNTY.-WILKINSON'S MINING DISTRICT. SEPT 24th 1879 At a meeting held at the head of Meddow Creek Mr C. J. Witaker was appointed chairman and D. R. Emmett Secretary. The following resolutions were adopted 1st. That this new mining camp be organized into a Mining District 2d. That the name of the District shall be known as Wilkinson's Mining District 3d. That the boundaries of the district shall be as follows-Commencing at the junction of West Ten Mile creek with Ten Mile river and thence running up West Ten Mile to Block Lake; thence down Block Lake fork of Piney in a north west course to the junction of Big Horn creek with Piney fork of Eagle, thence up Big Horn creek to its head, thence agross the Blue River Range to the head of Rock Creek; thence down Rock creek to its junction with the Blue River, thence up the Blue River to its junction with Ten Mile River; thence up Ten Mile River to the place of beginning 4th. That in working assessments hereafter $5.00 per day per man including tools &c shall be considered the basis for estimating the value of the work done C. J. WHITAKER, Chairman D. R. EMMETT, Secy. SUMMIT COUNTY.-SWAN RIVER MINING DISTRCT. At a meeting of the miners on Swan river called this 14th day of February A. D 1880 for the purpose of forming a mining district and making and adopting a code of laws for governing the same the following officers were elected to serve for the term of one year from date: Mr Isaac Williams, President; Mr N. Burnett Gleason Vice President; Mr Frank Rearden Recorder; Mr Watter Farrar Assistant. And by vote the following articles were adopted. ARTICLE First. This district shall be called and known as the Swan river district. ARTICLE Second. This district shall be defined and bounded as fallows; commencing at the point on the Swan river opposite the mouth of Summit gulch and running thence northerly to North Turner creek; thence easterly up North Turner creek and on to the head of Keystone gulch, thence to western boundary of Georgia district; thence southward along said boundary line to summit of the divide between Swan river and French gulch; thence westerly along said divide to point opposite the head of Summit gulch; thence northerly down Summit gulch to place of beginning ARTICLE Third. It shall be the duty of the President or in his absence the Vice-President to preside at all meetings of the miners of said district, ARTICLE Fourth. It shall be the duty of the President or in his absence the Vice-President or in the absence of both the Recorder, whenever requested by any four (4) or more miners belonging to said district to call a meeting of miners therein, to post or. cause to be posted in a prominent place in said district a plain notice of such meeting giving at least four (4) days notice of same. ARTICLE Fifth. It shall be the duty of the Recorder or in his absence the assistant Recorder to be present at all meetings of the miners and act in his official capacity. ARTICLE Sixth. It shall be the duty of the Recorder to take charge of all records and papers belonging to the district and preserve the same carefully ARTICLE Seventh. All discoveries made within said district shall have a plain notice posted at the discovery shaft or hole written in plain English giving date of discovery, name of lode, deposit or placer claim and of each and every claimant and stating the number of lineal feet each way from centre of discovery shaft also the number of feet in width and in what direction bearing from said notice ARTICLE Eighth. All claimants or miners shall have a full year unmolested to perform the annual government assessment on his or their lode lodes or claims providing work is commenced thereon on or before the first day of the year dating from date of discovery. ARTICLE Ninth. In performing the annual assessment required by the government there shall be allowed for a days labor on all lodes or deposits the following prices. For working in loose rock and earth $10.00 (ten dollars) per day and in hard rock such as will require blasting $14.00 (fourteen dollars) per day. ARTICLE Tenth. A hole on any claim within this district that is sunk to the full depth of 10 (ten) feet from the lower part of the rim of same at the surface, which is the depth required by law for true fissure veins with a plain notice or sign posted as described in article 7th (seventh) of these by-laws shall be valid and not subject to relocation for one year from the date of discovery or location, even though mineral may not be found in the hole. DECATUR, SUMMIT COUNTY, COLORADO, June 5th, 1880. Pursuant to a public notice duly posted a rousing, enthusiastic and very orderly miner's meeting was held at W. L. Sawtell's hotel this evening. The meeting was called to order at 7.40 p. m; W. L. Sawtell chosen chairman; M. A. Lathrop, secretary. Moved and carried that a committee of five be elected to draft resolutions in regard to staking, working and holding claims and other mining interests of Peru district and present the same for approval at the next regular meeting. S. F. Cowles, Ed. Cane, Geo. B. Semmes, W. L. Sawtell, John F. Leland, committee elected. Moved and carried that in case any member of the Committee should be unable to be present he be empowered to choose a substitute to represent him in drafting said resolutions. Moved and carried that M. A. Lathrop take up a subscription for the purpose, and procure a suitable cabinet or cabinets for the preservation and exhibition of mineral specimens of this district, and solicit samples, arrange and take care of same, and furnish samples of ores to capitalists, mining exchanges and educational institutions and at the earliest practical convenience place samples of ore from this district in suitable cases on exhibition in some bank or exchange in Georgetown, Denver and Leadville, also receive and answer all correspondence in regard to the same. Moved by Thomas T. Eyre and by a unanimous vote declared that no Chinaman be employed in any capacity or allowed to remain in Peru district. Moved and carried that the Secretary Send copies of the proceedings of this meeting to the papers in Denver, Georgetown, Kokomo and Leadville. CERTIFICATE OF RESOLUTIONS PERU MINING DISTRICT Your committee after carefully considering the subject under discussion viz; "the staking working and holding of claims and other mining interests," they well knowing that the existing statutes on those points are very explicit yet feeling the importance of some united action whereby disputes and consequent delays in the development of said interests in this district may be avoided, and in order to shape such action your committee would respectfully suggest that a standing committee be elected having certain powers granted them to act and duties to perform. Therefore be it Resolved That a standing committee of five practical miners shall be elected at a regularly called meeting whose duty it shall be to thoroughly investigate all mining disputes presented to them in writing and decide upon the same according to their best judgment. ARTICLE 2d. That in case said contestants are dissatisfied with the decision of the standing committee they may appeal to the next regular miner's meeting by signing articles of agreement to abide by the majority vote of said meeting such vote to be considered final. ARTICLE 3rd. That the chairman of said committee shall be empowered to call a miners meeting whenever a majority of said committee deem it expedient by posting at least two written notices in conspicuous places for not less than three nor more than six days prior to said meeting. ARTICLE 4th. That any person or number of persons taking a mining claim shall commence work on said claim before the expiration of ten days from the hour of staking said lode or claim, or forfeit all right to protection from the standing committee ARTICLE 5th. That in staking a mining claim the general directions and distances with date and name of said claim shall be stated on the stake. J ARTICLE 6th. That any person or number of persons staking a mining claim of 150 feet wide by 1500 feet in length or less shall be protected in the exclusive right for sixty days, to prospect said ground and sink his ten feet hole, if said party conforms to Article 4th ARTICLE 7th. That after work has been commenced on a mining claim, said claim shall be worked expeditiously until finished, and tools to remain in the hole until completed, said tools to be plainly marked. ARTICLE Sth. That any person or number of persons proven to have molested or feloniously taken tools from said holes or workings, the same shall be reported at the next regular miner's meeting for their action. ARTICLE 9th. That any person or number of persons staking a mining claim that has been forfeited according to law, shall be protected in his rights while conforming to Article 4th ARTICLE 10th. That in case a mining claim is forfeited the parties restaking said claim shall preserve the original stakes, if there be any and such old stakes shall be accepted in evidence in questions of dispute. ARTICLE 11th. That these resolutions shall take effect from the time of their adoption. W. L. SAWTELL Moved that any of the preceding articles may be amended or annulled at any future meeting, carried. The preceding resolutions were adopted by a regularly called miner's meeting of Peru District held at W. L. Sawtell's Hotel, Decatur, Summit Co. Col June 12th 1880 W. L. SAWTELL, Chairman. M. A. LATHROP, Sect CLEAR CREEK COUNTY.-ATLANTIC MINING DISTRICT. The Atlantic District is a new mining District of Clear Creek County, formed in June 1880. The following are the published minutes of the organization meeting of the miners, held at the office of D. J. Ball in Empire. Whereas, we, the miners and property holders in the new camp which comprises a part of the western portion of Clear Creek County, Colorado, have by prospecting, development and assays proven the existence there of rich silver and gold ores in true fissure veins, and, as we believe, in great quantity; and being desirous of forming a new district and establishing certain rules and miners' laws for the protection of the people of the district, do hereby declare in public meeting: First: That a new mining district in Clear Creek County is hereby organized, the boundaries of which shall be as follows: Commencing at a point in the centre of Middle Clear Creek due south of J. Musser's cabin; thence westerly along the centre of said Middle Clear Creek to a point where Jones' wagon road crosses said creek; thence south westerly along the line of said Jones' wagon road to Jones' pass; thence following the summit of the Snowy Range northeasterly through Vasquez Pass and Berthone Pass to the summit of Mt. Flora, thence southerly on a direct line to the place of beginning. Second, That the name of said mining district shall be Atlantic, and shall be (so?) known and specified in all records of property discovered therein. Third, That nothing herein enacted shall interfere or prejudice any rights heretofore lawfully acquired within the boundaries of this district. Fourth, That a committee of three citizens be appointed to select a site for a town at some point on Middle Clear Creek which will best accommodate the camp. Fifth, That the name of the town shall be Atlantic. Sixth, That the committee on town site shall consist of Henry M. Cline, George S. Russell and Wm M. Moore, and that they proceed immediately to select and survey the Town of Atlantic, and be authorized to assess the citizens for the necessary funds to pay expenses. A number of miners laws in regard to the holding of town lots, cutting timber, grazing of stock and cattle and other matters were passed. B. O. RUSSELL, President. E. C. GUIBOR, Secretary. CHAFFEE COUNTY.-CHALK CREEK MINING DISTRICT. PREAMBLE We miners and mine owners of Chalk Creek Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, in order to secure the mining claims of said district from molestation and depredation by men of unprincipled character, do hereby formulate the following constitution for the government of our actions, binding ourselves, each and every one, under penalty of being expelled from the Association and branded far and wide as a coward and a person unfit for the communion of honest men, should we in the least, knowingly or wittingly, fail to uphold and support this, our constitution or the actions of bodies regularly constituted under it, all of which shall be as lawfully right as may be within our power. SECTION 1. 1. The Association shall be known as the Miner's Association of Chalk Creek Mining District 2. The association shall be formed, as near as may be, of two-thirds of the men interested in mining pursuits in Chalk Creek Mining District, Chaffee County. 3. The officers of the association shall be a President, two Vice Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer. 4. The duties of the President of the Association shall be to preside at all meetings of the association, decido in cases of a tie and call meetings as elsewhere provided for. 5. The duties of the Vice Presidents shall be to take and fill the position of President upon the absence of that officer. 6. The duties of the Secretary shall be to keep a full and faithful record of all proceedings of the association; also embodying in his minutes a digest of the minutes of the secretary of the Executive Committee. 7. The duties of the Treasurer shall be to receive, collect and disburse monies in behalf of the association and to keep a true report of his action. in relation to his office. 8. The term of office for all officers known in this Constitution both in the general association as a whole, and by the Executive Committee as a part, shall be one year from date of election, unless sooner removed. 9. Just cause for removal from office shall be failure to support the Constitution, or negligence in official duties 10. The association shall have one regular meeting on the Saturday of the third week in July of each year; but meetings may at any time be called by the Executive Committee at said Committee's discretion, or by a petition signed by fifty of the members of the Association and presented to the President of the Association. 11. A proper notice shall be exhibited in prominent places throughout the district, at least two weeks before each regular annual meeting and one week previous to all call meetings; shall in all cases be signed by the President and secretary of the Association. SECTION 2. 1. At each regular meeting of the Association a committee of twelve shall be appointed, to be chosen from out the Association; said committee to be called "The Executive Committee of the Miners Association of Chalk Creek Mining District." 2. Each member of the Executive Committee shall, within two weeks subsequent to election be required to swear to the following oath before a notary public, under penalty of being expelled from the association. I— OATHI do hereby most solemnly swear before God and man to perform the duties of my office in as honest and truthful a manner as is within my power without the least equivocation or evasion whatsoever, so help me, God. 3. Within three weeks subsequent to election, the Executive Committee shall have a meeting for the transaction of business and the election of officers. 4. The officers of the Executive Committee shall be a President, Secretary and Treasurer. 5. The duties of the President shall be to preside at all meetings of the Committee, decide in cases of a tie vote and call meetings as elsewhere provided for. 6. The duties of the Vice President shall be to fill the position of President when that officer is absent. 7. The duties of the Secretary shall be to keep a true and faithful record of all proceedings and to hand the same to the Secretary of the Association when the latter officer may require him to do so. 8. The duties of Treasurer shall be to receive Monies from the Treasurer of the Association upon presenting a written order to that officer from the President of the Executive Committee, and disburse the same in behalf of said committee. It shall be his duty to keep a correct record of all receipts and expenditures, and transmit the same to the treasurer of the association, when the latter officer may require him to do so. 9. A quorum for the transaction of business by the Association as a whole or the committee as a part, shall consist of two thirds of the membership. 10. A majority vote shall be necessary for the passage of any vote or other business before the association or the executive committee SECTION 3. 1. The Executive Committee shall be ready and willing at all times to hold meetings when requested to do so by persons having mining disputes for adjudication. 2. The Executive Committee shall be a power of arbitration in all mining disputes brought to it for a settlement. 3. The proper person to whom mining disputes shall be brought is the President of the Executive Committee, who shall, upon such information, call a meeting of the committee, which shall upon requisite information, appoint an examining Committee of three, chosen from their own number, Said Committee to be placed before the contending parties for rejection or acceptance. Any rejected member shall be replaced by others, chosen by the Executive Committee from their own body until an examining committee shall be found acceptable to both the contending parties. If none such can be found, then the Executive Committee shall appoint three members from their own body who shall proceed to examine into all particulars concerning the dispute brought before the Executive Committee, using all care and descretion and proceeding with all possible dispatch. The examining committee shall, within one week, from appointment, call a meeting of the Executive Committee through its President, and lay before the committee assembled their report. The Executive Committee shall then proceed to deliberate upon the case, and shall, within as short a time as they shall deem possible, give and enforce their decision to the disputants. Should any point require further elucidation before judgment can be reached, then the Examining Committee shall make further inquiries, to be embodied into another report. 4. The Executive Committee shall, at each regular meeting of the association, if so voted by that body, present a report of their actions from the time of the last report. 5. The Executive Committee shall have the power to use what measures it sees fit to carry into effect its decisions, if necessary, calling for help upon members of the association, who shall furnish them such help as they shall deem necessary. 6. This constitution is subject at any time to amendment, by a two-thirds vote. 7. Giving our every effort to act with due prudence and deliberation in supporting this constitution and the actions of the bodies regularly constituted under it, we subscribe ourselves to it as the exposition of our will. I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the original constitution as adopted, now on file in my office. F. E. TYLER ALPINE, COLORADO Sept 2 1880. ALPINE MINER'S MEETING LAND & TYLER'S OFFICE ALPINE, July 24 1880 The entire committee were sworn, as per provision of the Constitution, by notary public Mand, to proceed to election of officers William Matheson was elected President. J A J Chapman Vice President F E Tyler, Secretary S. E. Land Treasurer. After general remarks concerning the object of the meeting the following motion was passed: It is the sense of this committee that when a prospector has discovered float or other indications of a body of mineral, he shall be Upheld in a location on such grounds, he being required to expend two hundred dollars on such claim annually, in all other respects to act with strict regard to the State and National laws. Upon presentation, the following paper was adopted: 1. We, the Executive Committee of the Miners' Association of Chalk Creek Mining District, having justice and equity to all men for our object, hereby make the following by-laws and regulations for the government of ourselves and others in the prevention and settlement of mining disputes in said Chalk Creek Mining District. 2. These by-laws and regulations can be amended at any time the Committee see fit, following the mode prescribed by the Constitution of the general association. 3. Such by-laws and regulations as ordered by this Committee may, from time to time, be published in such manner and form as the Committee sees fit, for the enlightenment of the members of the Association and the public in general. 4. Such statutes relating to the Mining Code as may be passed from time to time by the National and State Legislatures, shall be published by this Committee as soon thereafter as may be possible. 5. There shall be a Schedule of interpretations of the existing mining laws, as may be the sense of the Committee, kept by the Secretary of the Committee; said Schedule may be added to as necessary or the sense of the committee shall dictate. 6. For any and all expenditures of the Committee, orders shall be given to the Treasurer of the Committee, endorsed by the President and Secretary of the Committee, which orders shall be transferred, when required, to the Treasurer of the Association. 7. When members of the Committee shall be required to attend to business relating to the Association, they shall receive four dollars per day and remuneration for such other expenses as the Committee shall see fit. 8. No member of the Committee shall be excused from official duty except by vote of the Committee. 9. One regular meeting shall be held monthly on the Saturday of the third week. 10. Previous to any meeting the members shall be notified by the Secretary of the Committee. Upon motion, the following Schedule was adopted: 1. A years assessment shall consist of the expenditure of $100. 2. A day's labor shall be valued at four dollars, and may be considered in respect to the annual expenditure of $100 3. In contract work only the actual amount of lawful money paid to the contractors shall be counted in the labor of the annual expenditure of one hundred dollars. 4. Any excess in the required annual expenditures of lodes Cannot be applied to the requirements of succeeding years, except in cases of patents. 5. Beside the assessment of ten foot face on the vein, required during the sixty days succeeding discovery, there must also be expended on the claim, sufficient labor, before the expiration of the calendar year, to complete the required years' assessment of one hundred dollars. Adjourned till July 31, at 7 o'clock No mining laws were passed at the meeting of July 31. F. E. TYLER, Secretary. MINUTES OF MEETING LAND & TYLER'S OFFICE, ALPINE, COL., Sept 4 1880 Regular Meeting At a meeting of the Miners' Association of Chalk Creek District, this day, (Sept 4 1880) the following resolution was adopted: 1. Resolved, That a tunnel claim or location under the statutes of the Federal Government embraces fifteen hundred feet by three thousand, and the owners of tunnel claims or locations have undisputed rights to all veins or lodes existing in said claims, not located prior to the date of said tunnel, claim or location. 2. That, locations made within the boundaries of tunnel claims by other parties than those interested in the tunnel claim after the Jocation and commencement of work and while the same is being diligently prosecuted for the development of said claim, are invalid. F. E. TYLER, Secretary. Explanatory All cases of disputes concerning locations and ownership of mining property coming within the jurisdiction of the Miners' Association are referred to the Executive Committee named. Papers and persons are brought before this Committee, which sits in Judicial Capacity, testimony on both sides taken and the questions at issue adjudged. The decision is reported to the general association and the Marshal, by authority, issues the following notice to the disputants, which are handed them in person: Marshal's Notices The following are copies of Marshal's notices to disputants, under the decision in case, of the Executive Board, appointed under the constitution and by-laws of the Miner's Association of Chalk Creek To Mr. ALPINE COLORADO, 1880 DEAR SIR According to the decision reached by the Executive Committee, Miner's Association, Chalk Creek District in the dispute concerning the Lode, the Committee finds Justice and right upon the side of and the general association will so hold, and it is my duty as marshal of said association to inform you of the verdict and request you to abide by it, as it is the general will of said association. Yours very Respectfully F. E. TYLER, Marshal. |