Show LATEST MINING DECISIONS DECISION 5 Prep areil for the mining review by westervelt snyder iler attorneys salt lake city mining clinin Nl inin 0 claims sufficiency of description in location notice the law will not hold the locator of a mining claim to a strict and technical compliance with the statute and so long as he substantially y complies with its provisions in 11 good rood faith and the language langua r e cra employed P keyed in the description will impart notice to subsequent locators it is sufficient wells v davis utah 62 pac 3 following farmin farmington ton G M co v rhymney rhomney CA qa C co 20 utah 58 pac expert testimony as to development work where a witness calls an expert testified that he was familiar with the ground in question and had surveyed and knew the location of the shafts where the development work ha dubeen had been done he was a competent witness to rive give an opinion as to whether such auch work in fact developed the claim wells wein v davis utah 62 pac 3 water rights for mining 0 purposes under oregon 11 statutes under the provisions of S hills ann laws of oregon cla classing sing interests in ditches used for mining purposes as real estate an interest in such a ditch can only be transferred by deed JM attis v hosmer or 62 pac 17 mining deed only conveys surface A deed to a portion of a i mining claim made pursuant to a compromise in settlement of a controversy over the surface boundaries of two mining claims conveying the strip in question together j with all the lips dips spurs spur and an angles trIes and also all the metals ores gold and silver bearing quartz quarts rock and earth therein only operates to convey the surface described abed and does not convey the minerals beneath montana am M co v st louis M M co fed IN mining claim possession the posses possession siou of the surface of a mining claim is the possession of all veins having their tops apexes within its surface boundaries although in their course downward such auch veins may pass beyond the vert vertical ival side lines of the location and beneath the surface lines of an adjoining y claim montana mining co v st louis mining ning 11 milling t co fed |