YAVAPAI COUNTY.-SEDGWICK MINING DISTRICT. CLINTON STATION A. T. November 20th 1871 PROCEEDINGS OF A MEETING HELD AT CLINTON STATION NOV 20′′ 1871. Mr Pierce Dorgan was duly elected chairman & forthwith proceeded to call the meeting to order-C. G. Terry elected chairman 1-On motion of Mr Cox a District was formed having as a pivot a high point to the North East of Clinton Station, said point to be hereafter known as McCloud's point 2-On motion the following described lines is hereby made the boundary of the Dist now undergoing organization-From McClouds point east for a distance of eight miles & from thence south a distance of 12 miles thence west 12 miles, thence north 12 miles thence 4 miles cast to McClouds point comprising a section of country 12 miles square— 3 On motion Dist named Sedgwick Dist 4-Regarding claims by motion of Mr Hall that a period not to exceed twenty days after location be granted to claimants to record their respective claims before the Dist Recorder-Carried 5-Motion of Mr Kennedy that five days work on any claim or company's claim hold the same for six months— Carried 6-Motion that within 30 days after recording work be commenced upon said recorded claims-Carried7-Motion Mr Cox that each claim or company's claim have their respective limits defined by erecting a monument or driving a stake at the beginning and terminus of said claims-Carried— Motion of Chairman, Samuel 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 presented to the Recorder of (said) Sedgwick Dist when a miners meeting is to be held & subscribed to by twelve miners interested in said District & be it Resolved that the Recorder givo ten days notice by placing or having placed in three conspicuous places in said Dist before such or any meeting can be held pertaining to the interests thereof-& be it further Resolved that the Recorder be requested to keep a book for recording claims & said book be open to public inspection & the Recorder will cause to be placed upon the first pages of his record book the proceedings of this meeting & bo it further Resolved that the afore said laws are in force from & after this dato & all laws conflicting with the same are horoby repealed PIERCE DORGAN Chairman O. G. TERRY Seoty SAMUEL HILL Recorder MARICOPA COUNTY.-GLOBE MINING DISTRICT. BOUNDARIES AND LAWS. Pursuant to notice, the miners in the neighborhood of the Globe Mine, on Pinal Creek, Maricopa county, Territory of Arizona, met together on the 25th of November, 1875, at the camp of A. R. Hammond, for the purpose of forming a Mining District and making the necessary laws to govern the same. R. B. Metcalf, was called to the chair and R. H. Choate, appointed secretary of the meeting. The chairman stated the object of the meeting, and his remarks were followed by a motion, that the district about to be formed should be called the "Globe Mining District," which was carried. A motion was also carried that the boundaries of the Globe District be as follows: Commencing at a point where the supposed line of the San Carlos Indian reservation crosses Salt River; thence down along the course of said river to the mouth of Pinto Creek; thence in a southerly direction to the Bloody Tanks on the trail from the Globe mine to the Pinal Post; thence along the summit of the timber range of the Pinal mountains to the Gila river; thence up the Gila river to the supposed line of the San Carlos reservation; thence along said line to the place of beginning. This district is intended to embrace that portion of the San Carlos reservation that is about to be cut off and declared open for the occupation of miners and prospectors. The motion carried that the Mining Act passed by Congress on May 10, 1872, and all subsequent amendments to that Act, be and are hereby adopted as the laws governing this district. The following By-Laws and regulations were then adopted: SECTION 1.-That each claim located in this district shall be recorded in tho district records within thirty days after the date of Location, and any failure to comply with this rulo shall be considered an abandonment, and the claim subject to relocation as though it had never been located. SECTION 2.-There shall be upon each claim recorded in the district the amount of twenty-five dollars in labor expended during the first three months after the date of location. SECTION 3.—Any failure to comply with the above rule, shall be deemed an abandonment of the claim. SECTION 4.-All claims located in this distriot prior to this date, shall be recorded in the district records, within sixty days from the dato of the passage of these laws. SECTION 5.-Each notice of location presented for record, shall bear the signatures of one or more witnesses to the location. SECTION 6.-There shall be notices posted in three conspicuous places in the district five days previous to the calling of any and all subsequent meetings of the miners of this district, and five mine owners in the district may call such meeting. SECTION 7.—In all miners' meetings hereafter held in the district, fifteen mine owners in the district shall be considered a quorum to transact business, and a two-third vote of all mine owners present at any meeting shall be required to alter, abolish or make new laws for this district. SECTION 8.—On the 25th of November of each year there shall be a meeting of the miners of this district, held for the purpose of electing a recorder, and for such other business as may be brought before it. SECTION 9.-The recorder shall be elected to serve the term of one year. SECTION 10.—It shall be the duty of the recorder to keep the books and papers of his office within this district. SECTION 11.-The recorder shall be entitled to a fee of one dollar for recording each claim, and one dollar for each certificate furnished. SECTION 12.-It shall be the duty of the recorder to appoint a deputy to act in his stead during his absence from the district. Nominations for recorder were declared in order, and A. R. Hammond was nominated and elected by acclamation. A motion was carried that the secretary be instructed to forward a copy of these proceedings to the Arizona Citizen, the Prescott Miner and the Silver City Herald for publication. I, G. A. Swasey, District Recorder of Globe Mining District, County and Territory aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of the Laws, etc., of said Globe Mining District, as found recorded in the Records of said District, and that the same are now in full force and virtue. Witness my hand this 25th day of February 1881 G. A. SWASEY, Distriot Recorder said Globe Mining District. CALIFORNIA. AMADOR COUNTY.-DRYTOWN MINING DISTRICT. LOCAL MINING LAWS. At a meeting of the miners of Dry Creek, Rancherea Creek, Amador Creek & Sutter Creek holden near the town of Ranchereas Saturday June 7th 1851, in accordance with previous public notice for the purpose of making rules and regulations for Quariz Miners in the Mining District hereinafter described. M. A. Lawton was chosen to preside-Samuel Herbert Vice-President & Wm. Salter jr. sec'y. On motion of O. L. Palmer a committee of three were appointed consisting of O. L. Palmer, Wm. Fenton of Rancherea and Hiram P. Platt of Drytown to prepare resolutions for the consideration of the meeting. Committee offered the following report which was accepted Resolved 1st That Rules and Regulations for the security peace and harmony of the miners who are now or who may be hereafter engaged in prospecting and working quartz mines are positively necessary— Resolved 2nd That in compliance with that necessity we do hereby ordain and establish the following rules and regulations for the government of of the District within the following bounds to-wit: All that portion of the County of Calaveras that lies south of the dividing ridge between the Cosumnes River and Dry Creek and North of the Mokelumne River. Resolved 3rd That the size of a claim in quarts veins shall be two hundred and forty (240) feet in length of the vein without regard to the width to the discoverer or company and one hundred and twenty (120) feet in addition thereto for each member of the company that shall now or may be hereafter organized Resolved 4th That no claims hereafter made shall be considered good and valid unless the same shall have been staked off in conformity with the provision of Resolution 3rd and written notice of the size of the claim and number of men in the company posted upon a tree or stake at each end of the claim to gether with the date of day when the claim was made and all claims that are now made shall be staked off in conformity with these resolutions within five days from the date of the adoption of these resolutions. Resolved 5th That the size of the claim, the number of men composing the company that holds the claim to-gether with a brief description of the location of the same so that it may be identified shall within ten days after the claim is made be filed in the office of the Justice of the Peace in whose district the same may be located. And all persons holding such claims shall file the same within ten days from this meeting. And all persons hereafter making claims [within ten days after the claims are located] or otherwise such claims shall be forfeitedResolution 6th In all cases where claims are held by a company working jointly they shall not be required to work in more than one place but when held by individuals each several claim must be worked. Resolution 7th Whenever a claim has been abandoned and such can be clearly proven before the Justice of the Peace where such file was made, said claim shall be forfeited to the person or persons establishing such proofs Resolution 8th. That these rules, regulations and proceedings be signed by the President and Secretary of this meeting and filed in the Justice's office at Drytown. T. J. LAWTON Prest. WM SALTER JR. Sec'y. MARIPOSA COUNTY.-MARIPOSA MINING DISTRICT. LOCAL LAWS.-MARIPOSA QUARTZ COVENTION. A convention of Quartz Miners convened pursuant to public call in the town of Quartzburg, County of Mariposa, on the 25th June, 1851. The meeting being called to order, on motion, Col. Thorn was unanimously chosen President of the meeting, and J. T. Temple, Secretary. On motion, a committee of seven was appointed to draft a preamble and resolutions for the consideration of the meeting. The chair appointed the following gentlemen as that committee: Col. Kyle, Maj. Burney Maj. Gaines, Judge Lansing, Messers Thurmond, jr., F. Johnson and J. T. Temple. The committee after retiring for some time, made by their chairman, Maj. Burney, the following report: Whereas, we deem the protection of the Quarzt Mining interest in the County of Mariposa essential to the peace of said county, And whereas, certain definite and fixed rules are requisite to the protection of said interest and the maintenance of the peace and harmony of the county; therefore, That all quartz veins now owned and occupied in the county of Mariposa, or which may hereafter be discovered or claimed, shall be governed by the following rules, to wit: The interest of a party making a discovery in quartz shall be five hundred feet in length, and the entire width of the vein, be that more or less. The interest of all persons claiming subsequently to the discovery shall be two hundred and fifty feet in length, and the entire width of the vein. Resolved, That every vein of quartz now discovered, or which may be discovered, shall be recorded the County Clerk's Office defining the location, and clearly describing the boundaries of each claim. Every vein of quartz now owned or claimed must be recorded as above specified within thirty days from the first day of July next; and all subsequent discoveries and claims, within thirty days from said discovery or claim. Resolved, That any person making a discovery of a quartz vein, shall in some clear and distinct manner, in some prominent place, mark his name & the date of the discovery; and further, that every owner of an interest in a quartz vein shall have said interest represented either personally, or by agent and said interest shall be worked in good faith within six months from the date of the record in the County Clerk's office. Resolved, That all lands adjoining the veins and necessary for the successful operations in mining, as for tunneling, running a ditch, etc, shall be considered as the property of the party owning the vein, or that part of the vein, for the successful working of which said land is important. Resolved, That we consider all rights claimed in quartz veins, subject to the debts of the claimants or owners, as absolutely as any other property. Resolved, That all conflicting interests may be settled by a board of seven referees, who shall be disinterested, and their decision shall be final. The parties defeated shall pay the expenses of the referees while adjusting their conflicting interests. Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions shall not be so construed as in any manner to affect injuriously or in any way impair the sales or transfers of interests heretofore made of quartz veins in this county. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Stockton, San Francisco,and Sacramento papers, and that a copy be furnished to our Senators & Representatives in Congress. Resolved, That for the full and faithful maintenance of these rules and regulations in our County of Mariposa, we sacredly pledge our honors and our lives. THOMAS THORN, President. JOHN T. TEMPLE, Seoy. Filed July 16, 1851, and recorded at request of Thomas Thorn, esq. STATE OF CALIFORNIA County of Mariposa 88: EDW'D. C. BELL, I, Angevine Reynolds, clerk in and for the County and State above named, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a full, true and correct copy of the Quartzburg Mining Laws, of Mariposa County, as appears of record in my office. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, this day of A. D. 18 County Clerk. BUTTE COUNTY.-CON COW MINING DISTRICT. BY LAWS OF THE QUARTZ CONVENTION HELD AT RICH GULCH ON SATURDAY THE 15TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1851. We the citizens of Rich Gulch and the adjacent mining District in Convention assembled do hereby enact the following laws to govern us in regard to Quartz Mining. ARTICLE 1st. It shall be the duty of all persons or Companies intending to hold Claims in Quartz in this district, to have the same recorded by the Recorder of this district, within thirty days after discovery. Which claims can be legally held untill such times as machinery can be put upon it. Provided the time does not exceed six months. ARTICLE 2nd. All person or companies claiming and working a Ledge of Quartz, shall be entitled to one hundred & fifty feet of each Ledge so worked and claimed, also one extra claim for discovering the same. ARTICLE 3d. When a company have taken up a Ledge they shall be entitled to hold so much ground as they may deem necessary for the purpose of erecting machinery & other needful constructions. With the water privileges thereon. Provided the same has not been previously claimed. ARTICLE 4th. The Recorder elected by this district shall receive for his services the sum of Twenty-five cents for each & every claim he records. ARTICLE 5th. All difficulties arising from holding disputed claims or Mining Ground shall be settled by arbitration. The Convention then elected L. C. Goodman Recorder & adjourned. JOHN Q. A. MILLER Secretary. LAWS OF 1852. RICH GULCH BUTTE COUNTY. CA WEISERT Chairman. By Laws of the Miners' Convention held at the store of J. I. Steward, Rich Gulch, May 22nd 1852. At a meeting of the miners of Rich Gulch & vicinity called by due notice at the store of J. I. Steward on the 22d of May 1852 a large & respectable portion of the miners of this vicinity assembled for the purpose of father regulating the mining interest of this district. On motion Levi Hedges was elected Chairman & John Callon Secretary. On motion the laws passed at a former meeting in regard to Quartz mining were read & the following preamble & resolutions were offered & unanimously adopted viz: 1st. Resolved, that all persons or companies claiming & working a ledge of quartz shall be entitled to one hundred & fifty each on each ledge so worked & claimed also one extra claim for discovering the same. 2nd. Resolved, that on placing a quartz Claim on Record they shall hold the same without working it for six months. 3d. Resolved, that no person shall be entitled to more than one Claim in a Ledge unless by purchase or inheratance from this date. 4th. Resolved, that if a claim has been taken possesion of properly prospected so as to satisfy the parties that they shall work it. They may give due notice thereof & due proof that they have done so their Claims shall be good for 30 days from said notice. 5th. Resolved, That all disputes in regard to Quartz Claims shall be settled by three disinterested men. One to be chosen by each party & the third by the two chosen who shall be governed in their decison by the laws of this district & if it be desired by a party or parties said arbitrators shall summon a jury who shall decide the case, as before mentioned, under the direction of the arbitrators & subject to an appeal to a general meeting of the miners. 6th. Resolved, that when a company have taken up a Ledge, they shall be entitled to hold so much ground as they may deem necessary for the purpose of erecting machinery & other needful concrustions with the water priveledge thereon. Provided the same has not been previously claimed 7th. Resolved, that no person shall hold more than sixty feet in length & thirty in width in Gulch, Ravine & Flat or Coyate diggins with the exception of present Claimants. 8th. Resolved, That Gulch or Ravine & Flat or Coyate claims not recorded must be renewed every ten days, unless the owner is on his Claim & working the same. 9th. Resolved, That all Gulch Ravine & Cayate diggins can be held during the dry season by recording the same until their is sufficient water to work the same. 10th. Resolved, That no person shall be entitled to more than one Claim in Gulch, Ravine or Coyate diggins unless by purchase or inberatance. 11th. Resolved, That all claims in Companyship each shareholder's name shall be incerted upon the Recorder's Book. 12th. Resolved, That the discover of any & all Kinds of diggins, shall be entitled to one extra Claim. 13th. Resolved, That all disputes in regard to Gulch Ravine or Coyate diggins shall be settled in the same way as in Quartz Claims. 14th. That the Boundaries of this district shall be the North Fork & West Branch of Feather River 15th. Resolved, That a Recorder of Claims shall be appointed at this whose duty it shall be to keep a record of all claims handed in to him on receiving his fees for the same. 16th. Resolved, That the Recorder shall Keep one book for Quartz & one for Gulch etc. Claims. He shall act as Secretary at all meetings of the miners of this District provided said meeting be duly called as hereinafter specified He shall also keep a true record of all laws of this district duly posted, & have his books always ready for inspection & use of all persons calling for the same. He shall also put up Copies of all laws in two public places within the district. 17th. Resolved, That the Recorder be empowered to appoint a Deputy to perform his when he may be absent or sick. 18th. Resolved, That the Recorder's fee shall be for recording each Quartz Claim or bill of sale one dollar & for each Gulch Claim or bill of sale one dollar provided that he shall not charge more than one fee for recording a company which may comprise two or more shareholders. 19th. Resolved That the Recorder shall be elected by vote & J. I. Steward was unimously elected as Recorder of this distret. 20th. Resolved, That future meetings of this district shall be called as follows. Any two miners may sign a request to the Recorder to call a meeting stating in their request the object for which the meeting is called The recorder shall thereupon issue a notice stating in the same a copy said notice shall be posted up in three public places in the District at least three days previous to said meeting, provided that no other business shall be attended to at said meeting except what is specified in said notice. It was then moved to adjourn for the time being. JOHN CALLON Secretary. LAWS OF 1880 LEVI HODGES Chairman By virtue of a notice duly signed and posted on the 23d day of August 1880, a meeting of Miners was held at Yankee Hill, Butte Co. Cala on August 28th 1880, for the purpose of revising the mining laws and forming a new District and conforming to the United States Laws, also for the purpose of electing a Recorder for said District, at which place and time the Con Cow Mining District was formed. Mr. M. H. Wells acted as Chairman and Mr. L. Glass acted as Secretary Laws. 1st. The Mining District shall be called the Con Cow Mining District 2nd. The District shall embrace the following described and bounded territory: Commencing at the Junction of the North Fork of Feather River on the West Branch of Feather River on the South end and following the West Branch of Feather River in all its course Westerly and Northerly to the North line Township 22, and thence Easterly to the North Fork of Feather River, thence Southerly and Easterly to the Junction of said North Fork of Feather River and West Branch River to the place of beginning, including to said River the centre thereof. 3rd. Chapter Six of Title 32 Revised Statutes of the United States is adopted as this article. 4th. In the location of mines in this district, copies of the notices of Location must be placed on the mines before any legal record of the same can be made by the Recorder, any location not so made shall be null and void 5th. All locations must be filed in the office of the Recorder within ten (10) days after the actual date of location 6th. The Recorder shall be entitled to a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for each and every notice recorded with one name and twenty-five cents (25 cts) for each additional name. 7th. The Recorder of this District shall hold office from the 28th day of August 1880, until his successor is clected. 8th. The Recorder shall keep full and complete records of the minutes and proceedings of the respective meetings 9th. These rules and regulations and by laws shall not be altered or in any way changed except at a meeting of the miners of said District and then only by a majority of miners Present, which meeting shall be called by written notice posted in five (5) conspicuous places within the District, naming day and date etc, Which meeting shall have power to elect a Recorder, such fact being stated in notice of call. 10th. Any and all persons, who are citizens of the United States of America or who have declaired their intentions to become such, and own shares or stock or interest in any mine in this district shall be entitled to vote at a miners meeting. 11th. Five ($5.00) dollars per day shall be allowed for cach and every eight hours work performed upon a mine, for the purpose of holding title or performing the necessary amount of work for a patent. 12th. All mines hereafter located in this District shall be marked by end and corner stakes or monuments at least eighteen inches in height above ground with sufficient marks placed in or upon them showing which end or corner of the claim they designate. 13th. All locations made and recorded previous to the adoption of these rules, regulations and by-laws are hereby fully legalized. 14th. These rules, regulations and by-laws shall be in full force and effect on and after this 28th day of August 1880. 15th. In this District a Ravine claim shall consist of four hundred and fifty feet (450) along the bed of Ravine and fifty feet (50) on each side from centre in width. 16th. 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 also adopted at this meeting. Resolved, that parties holding claims under the old laws may at their option relocate and have recorded in the name of the company, as many claims of twenty (20) acres each, as may be embraced within their present boundaries, without invalidating prior and accrued rights and that when five hundred dollars ($500) has been expended by any company on their claims, that the annual recording and expenditure of fifty dollars ($50) on said claims, will be held sufficient to confirm title, providing that nothing in the new laws shall be construed so as to affect any rights acquired under the old laws. Resolved, that we learn with much satisfaction that James C. Logan, Frank McLaughlin and Geo. W. Cummings of Orville contemplate running a tunnel from a point on the North Fork of Feather River near Hamilton Bar through the ridge, to a point in Dark Canon, for the purpose of diverting the water of said North Fork from its natural bed in that portion of the River known as " Big Bend" so that the whole bed of the river may be dried up and mined from said Hamilton Bar to the junction of the West Branch and North Fork of Feather River. And recognising the fact that the bed of said North Fork through said Big Bend cannot be successfully inined in any other way than by drying up or diverting the waters thereof, and believing that the very large amount of money necessary to be expended to accomplish such purpose will give a new and beneficial impetus to the mining interest of this district and reposing the utmost confidence in Messrs Logan, McLaughlin and Cummings be it further resolved and recorded as the sense of this meeting that we the miners of this district do hereby agree to pass such laws governing the district as will from time to time meet the requirements of this great enterprise and we agree that nothing in existing laws, governing this District shall be so construed as to interfere in any manner with the successful carrying out said undertaking. And all laws and parts of laws enacted heretofore in this District for the government of ordinary placer and quartz mining which are not applicable to the present undertaking, (We recognize the fact of the novelty of this enterprise) are hereby declaired inoperative and void, as to their application to this great tunnel enterprise. And wo further resolve and decree that during and after the completion of said tunnel Messrs. Logan McLaughlin and Cummings shall have the right to and shall own all the precious metals and minerals in the bed of said River, throughout its course through Big Bend, between the points before named, excepting only the product of bars and flumes now being worked by persons having established and legitamate rights held and cujoyed under the laws of this district previous to the first day of June A. D. 1880. |