Show IN another column tim THE REVIEW publishes an article entitled to pa patent tent placers which contains a new ruling by commissioner hermann regarding the amoun amount t of work required to obtain patent title to a group of placer claims where the claims are all embraced in in one location his decision being that in cases of this character t the lie expenditure of is is sufficient to patent a group of eight placer claims this will probably be cheering news to readers of THE ru bmw and also something of a surprise as under tinder a former ruling it was necessary in the case of lode claims t tc expend in work on each claiman claim in a group before patent could issue and it would seem as if this dec decision i sion of the commissioner regarding placer locations would also apply to a group of lode claims in fact it would seem as if there had been a return on tile tha part of the department to the old time and honored customs of years ago |