Show MINING LAWS united states arizone Ari zono california nevada colorado idaho and utah continued from december 15 it is the purpose of the following series of articles to give the most important mining laws of the united states and of the several states in as concise a form as possible A complete treatise on this subject would fill several large volumes and for more complete information we suggest t the following works for field work and handy reference morrisons Morri sons mining rights millers 1 mining law in practice or wilsons Wil sons mining laws for complete reference wilson snyder or on mining law it should be understood that the united states mining laws are fundamental and that the state and territorial laws are made to conform and not to conflict with the same it is therefore most important that the united states laws should be adhered to but it is also customary that local law and custom should be followed united states laws an act ac t defining what shall constitute and providing for assessments on oil mining claims act of february 12 1903 assessments required for oil mining claims thet where oil lands are located under the provisions of title thirty two chapter six revised statutes of the united states as placer mining claims the annual assessment labor upon such claims may be done upon any one of a group of claims lying contiguous and owned by the same person or corporation not exceeding five claims in all provided that said labor will tend to the development or to determine the oil bearing character of such contiguous claims see sec 2330 le legal leal t al subdivisions of forty I 1 acres may be subdivided into ten acre tracts and two or more persons or associations ciati ons of persons having contiguous claims of any size although such claims 1 be less than ten acres each may make joint entry thereof but no location of a placer claim made after the ninth day of july eighteen hundred an and d seventy shall exceed one hundred and sixty acres for any one person or association of persons which location shall conform to the united states surveys and nothing in this section contained shall defeat or impair any bona fide pr emption or homestead claim upon agricultural lands or authorize the sale of the improvements of any bona fide settler to any purchaser sec 2331 where placer claims are upon surveyed lands and conform to legal bub subdivisions divisions no further survey or plat shall be required and all placer mining claims located located after the tenth day of may eighteen undred and seventy two shall conform as ear as practicable with the united states slates system of public lands surveys and the rectangular subdivisions of such surveys and no such location shall include more than twenty acres for each individual claimant but where placer claims cannot be conformed to legal subdivisions survey and plat shall be made as on lands and where by the segregation of mineral land in any legal subdivision a quantity of agricultural land less than forty acres remains such fractional portion of agricultural land may be entered by any party qualified by law for homestead or preemption purposes see sec 2332 what evidence of possession etc 1 to 11 0 establish a right to a patent where such person or association they and their grantors granfors gran tors have held and worked their claims for a period equal to time pre by the statute of limitations for mining claims of the state or territory where the same may be situated evidence of such possession and working of the claims for such period shall be sufficient to establish a right to a patent thereto under this chapter in the absence of any adverse claim but nothing in this chapter shall de be deemed to impair any lien which may have attached in any way whatever to any mining claim or property thereto attached prior to the issuance of a patent to be continued |