OCR Text |
Show Important to Tunnel Owners.! Washington, 15. The commissioner commis-sioner of thit general land -office in a case coming from Colorado, has rendered a decision of importance to tunnel owuera and prospectors, holding hold-ing that no patent can issue for a vein or lode without surface ground and the assurance (T) . which over lies the apex of a vein or lode discovered iu a tunnel can be ascertained by sinking a shaft or following fol-lowing the lode up on its dip from the pjint of discovery. No survey of such lode can be made until the exact sur fa uce ground is first ascertained as above. |