Show RECENT MINING DECISIONS prepared for the mining review by judge E V higgins D F walker block notice of mining claim location by aliens A sufficient location of placer min ing in claims is made by notices posted upon a stump in in a creek of a claim running 1500 feet along the creek bottom and extending feet each way from the center of the creek adding that it is an extension of another claim named a certain distance from the first falls on said creek when such locations are upon public domain the location of a mining claim by an alien and the rights following are voidable not void and free from attack by anyone except the government mckimley creek mining n co v alaska united mining 1 I co etal efa al U S supreme court october term 1901 delegation of authority fellow servants A foreman of a mine having full power to hire and discharge men med who delegates his authority to a common miner thereby makes such miner a representative of the employer and the relation of fellow servants no longer exists between the miner so promoted and the other employees of the mine wellston coal co v smith 61 north eastern re porter ohio mining location excess election where a mining location was greatly in ex cess of the statutory limit and the locator on attempting to sell same discovered that there was an excess and procured a third person to locate a certain part of the original tract in his own name for the purpose of making a conveyance such action was an assertion as to where the excess in the original location lay so that on its appearing that the location by such third person was void a suase quent locator was entitled to claim that portion of the original location in excess gohres v illinois J gravel mining co 67 pac rep ore |