Show RECENT MINING DECISIONS f prepared for the mining review performance nonperformance non of assessment work nonperformance of assessment work by a locator would not forfeit his claim unless there was a valid location by another and one who did not himself make a valid location could not question the sufficiency of the assessment work done by the locator knutson vs fredlund supreme court of washington pacific abandonment if a new location of a mining claim by the person holding under a former location is invalid the attempt to relocate is not an abandonment or forfeiture of the former location bergquist vs west virginia wyoming copper company supreme court of wyoming pacific grub stake contract where under a grubstake grub stake contract plaintiff was to furnish defendant with supplies and to have an interest in mining claims located by defendant fen dant that after obtaining goods on plaintiffs credit defendant himself paid therefore did not impair the contract byrne vs knight court of appeal second district california pacific mining claim the terms mine amine or deposit yielding metals or minerals of any kind as used in B C comp div ing laborers and materi almen a lien for the worker wor kingor kor development of any mine lode mining claim or deposit yielding metals or minerals of any kind include a coal mine although the term mining claim amused therein may not do so escott vs crescent coal navigation company supreme court of oregon pacific relocation where the original discoverers and locators of a lode have sunk a shaft on the claim and each one knows of the existence of mineral bearing rock in place in that shaft and at a point where they posted a notice such facts sufficiently show a discovery to support a new location by them at the time of posting the notice bergquist vs west virginia wyo ming copper company supreme court of wyoming pacific relocation under rev st 2324 U S comp st 1901 p 1426 providing that on failure of a locator to do a certain amount of work each year on a mining claim the claim shall be open to relocation it if the original locator does not resume work on the claim after failure and before relocation a defective relocation by an adverse claimant does not prevent the original locator from resuming work and saving his claim after failure to do the required amount during a previous year thornton vs kaufman supreme court of montana pacific subsequent location the government or a subsequent locator under a valid location esthe only one who can complain of a failure on the part of a locator to do the necessary annual worn work required by rev st 2324 U S comp st 1901 p 1426 and a subsequent locator is not in a position to make complaint until he has completed a valid location and it if prior to the completion of such subsequent sequent location the original locator has resumed work on his claim in good faith h s previous delinquency lin quency is not a matter of consequence thornton vs kaufman supreme court of montana Pacific location notice rev st P 2548 provides that before filing the location certificate the discoverer shall designate the location by post ng at the point of the discovery on the surface a plain sign or notice containing the name of the lode or claim the name of the discoverer of any mineral lode shall have sixty days from date of discovery in which to sini sink a discovery shaft thereon the locators of a mining claim posted a notice reciting bilat the undersigned undersigner under signed on a date specified located and claimed a certain described lode loae extending a specified distance east and west and upon each side of the place where the notice was posted gave the name of the claim this notice was placed lit in the shaf and another notice to the same effect was prepared and placed upon ashab a on the claim held that the not notches ces were not insufficient on the ground that they omitted the name of the discoverer as the signature of the locators is chent without designating the discoverers bergquist vs west virginia W wyoming copper company supreme court of wyoming pacific |