Census Reports Tenth Census. June 1, 1880: United States mining laws ... and state and territorial ... [and] local mining regulationsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1885 - United States |
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... Hill was elected Dist Recorder in & for Sedgwick Dist Motion of Mr Kennedy that the Dist Recorder have & receive for a consideration the sum of one dollar for each claim placed upon record- Resolved that a written application be ...
... Hill was elected Dist Recorder in & for Sedgwick Dist Motion of Mr Kennedy that the Dist Recorder have & receive for a consideration the sum of one dollar for each claim placed upon record- Resolved that a written application be ...
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... Hill claims shall be three hundred feet ( 300 ) front , at base of hill , and running back to the centre of the Hill . 17th . River claims shall consist of twenty ( 20 ) acres for each person locating . The following resolutions were ...
... Hill claims shall be three hundred feet ( 300 ) front , at base of hill , and running back to the centre of the Hill . 17th . River claims shall consist of twenty ( 20 ) acres for each person locating . The following resolutions were ...
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... Hill or tunnel diggings 4th Wet diggings 5th Dry diggings S. 2nd Ravine , Cañon and River diggins are one hundred and fifty feet in length ( up and down ) and the entire width of the same including the bed from base of hill to base of hill ...
... Hill or tunnel diggings 4th Wet diggings 5th Dry diggings S. 2nd Ravine , Cañon and River diggins are one hundred and fifty feet in length ( up and down ) and the entire width of the same including the bed from base of hill to base of hill ...
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... Hill or tunnel diggins are governed by the following Laws : -Any man or Co. of men running a tunnel into a hill shall be entitled to hold and own the same after such claim shall pay for work or after labour to the amount of five hundred ...
... Hill or tunnel diggins are governed by the following Laws : -Any man or Co. of men running a tunnel into a hill shall be entitled to hold and own the same after such claim shall pay for work or after labour to the amount of five hundred ...
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... HILL MINING DISTRICT . Public notice having been given calling a meeting of the miners of Spanish Flat , to consider the propriety of divideing said District and forming a part of the original territory into a new mineing district to be ...
... HILL MINING DISTRICT . Public notice having been given calling a meeting of the miners of Spanish Flat , to consider the propriety of divideing said District and forming a part of the original territory into a new mineing district to be ...
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action adjourned adopted affidavit aforesaid amended amount appointed ARTICLE assessment boundaries by-laws called capital stock cause certificate claim or claims claimant clerk commence commissioners committee copy corporation county clerk Creek deemed defendant directors Dist ditch Downeyville duty E. W. JONES elected entitled execution February 20 fees fifty cents filed flume forfeited further enacted garnishee Grass Valley held hereafter Hill hold hundred dollars hundred feet incorporation issue Judge judgment Jury Justice labor Land-Office lands ledge liable lien Miners Court miners meeting MINING DISTRICT mining-claim motion necessary notice oath owner party patent payment person or persons possession President proceedings purchase purpose Recorder register of deeds regulations Resolved secretary SECTION Sheriff Silver Lode stake stockholders summons territory thence therein thereof thereto thirty days trustees tunnel vein or lode vote Yuma County
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Page 15 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent...
Page 109 - ... the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location.
Page 9 - States surveyor-general that five hundred dollars' worth of labor has been expended or improvements made upon the claim by himself or grantors; that the plat is correct, with such further description by such reference to natural objects or permanent monuments as shall identify the claim, and furnish an accurate description, to be incorporated in the patent. At the expiration of the sixty days of publication the claimant shall file his affidavit, showing that the plat and notice have been posted in...
Page 38 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Page 15 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side lines of such surface locations...
Page 9 - That mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz, or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits heretofore located, shall be governed, as to length, along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location.
Page 15 - ... shall be confined to such portions thereof as lie between vertical planes drawn downward as above described through the end lines of their locations, so continued in their own direction that such planes will intersect such exterior parts of such veins or ledges. And nothing in this section shall authorize the locator or possessor of a vein, or lode which extends in its downward course beyond the vertical lines of his claim, to enter upon the surface of a claim owned or possessed by another.
Page 9 - ... no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located.
Page 185 - The land upon which any building, improvement or structure is constructed, together with a convenient space about the same, or so much as may be required for the convenient use and occupation thereof...
Page 155 - Xo person holding stock in any such company, as executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, and no person holding such stock as collateral security, shall be personally subject to any liability as stockholder of such company...