Show LATEST MINING DECISIONS prepared expressly tor for the mining review by judge E V higgins DF Walker block salt lake city mining and mining claims mining claims abandonment assessment work evidence sufficiency defective pleadings 1 an admission in defendants pleadings in action to quiet title to the mining claim that miner was the owner of a claim during certain years is an admission that he did the requisite amount of assessment work during such years 2 rev st U S sec 2324 permits the miners in each mining district to make regulations as to the amount of assessment work to retain but the work in each year to be the value of plaintiff who owns four claims e employed m aloyed G to perform the assessment work for a certain year and paid him and he constructed ted a shaft on each of the claims larger than that required by the local regulations G and other witnesses testify that such work was worth a claim defendants evidence was to the effect that the expenses for help and supplies etc could not have reached a claim but no bo faith was shown on the part of plaintiff hud hid the remoteness of the mine entailed additional expense held sufficient to support a finding that an assessment work of the value of had been performed 3 under rev st TJ S see sec 2324 author izing miners of any district to establish regulations as to the amount of assessment work necessary to hold possession of any claim but requiring the work tork to be of the value of a year and providing that a failure to do such work works shall ball result as an abandonment compliance with the local regulations provi providing dind that an improvement of a certain description will not prevent an abandonment when the value value of the work is less than wright v killian et al col 64 reporter page 98 A it f fit IV A G q ar N 7 Z W |