| Show IN another portion of this paper we give the syllabus of an important mining decision just rendered by the secretary of the interior department we say that this is an important decision and we might add that it vitt vitally tily affects the interest of the claim owners of this western country inasmuch as it t virtually acif re relative to the performance verses a former ruling re fo for mance of assessment and de development work on a single sincle claim or a group of claims this former decision denied the acceptance of work performed on ground outside of the lines of a claim or group of claims as applying to the benefit or development to such claim or group of claims the now new ruling however if it is construed aright certainly allows of the sinking of a shaft shaf t outside of boundary lines in the development and the performance of assessment work where it is clearly shown that such work is for the benefit and improve ment of the mining ground in question |
