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Show Iloriic "Jumped," San Francisco, 29. The Call, tomorrow, to-morrow, wiil publish a statement emanating from a party well informed on tho subject, to tbo effect that in January last the township in which the town and some oi the principal mines of Budic aro located was surveyed sur-veyed under authority of the federal government, when it was discoved lhat tbey wore bituatcd in section six teen, liy act of congress of March 3d, 1So3, the sixteenth and thirty-sixth thirty-sixth sections in each township were granted to the stale. Under tho laws ol California, the occupants of such siuiuus are held tc be preferred purchasers or six mouths after the tiling of the p!at of survey. The parties par-ties in p'jitessiou at Bdio having lulled to avail themselves of the upt-rutiuii of the law, other parties have bied on application for purchoee uiid:r-4- f--tuie. The mines in- cU'idtd ill tllis tract l"0 "TTIir" Bodic, SoutJi Li..-;e, Sjuih .Sidudard, Champion, Cham-pion, u;:i B.;:-,vtr u;j.i a portion ol litiiwt.r. A Cull rejjrur interviewed United States Surveior General Wagner Wag-ner thin evening on the subject. He expitjs'.s surprise at bearing the blatr nient, and tinted lhat by the law I of l&jo mineral Lands were excluded . from going to the slate and the pres I ent ocL-upants could prove up and pateut thuir claims under the federal i law. He said, however, that a delcr-i delcr-i id i ua: i )ii ot tL,e qiiesliun wou.d prob-! prob-! ably co: enough to ruin bolb claim- ;uulsa.!d contfcatanta. ; rian Francisco, 30. It has been accertaiued from inquiry at the Btate surveyor general's otliee that section I sixteen, in which a portion of tho town and mines of fiodie are situaied, h:.s been Ijcated under the laws; that applicants have paid the regular prico fer mineral lands $2.50 per aero, and have received certificates, and unless pruleoU aro entered patents will ba itsned next November. The surveyor general states that be will respect such proteeto and leave the matierB to be settled by the courts. A number of promiueut holders ol Bodio mining properties under United Slates titles had a conference to-day. Some of Ihei-i-nrc" represented" to be a faTut' of compromising with the claimants under slate titles, and it is intimated that rea.-onablo terms C:in be arrived at. The .Sjuth Stand ird n.iuiug eoniii.-.ny have alrcauy ellecttd :i comi-rotiiisio on terms reserved, and the ownerH of tito Budie bank brive taken similar action. |