Show RECENT MINING DECISIONS prepared by judge E V higgins D F P walker building salt lake city mining claims claim sufficient marking of boundary line two adjoining mining claims were each marked at the corners by four stakes eighteen inches in height flattened on two sides and driven into the ground four inches two stakes being at the end of the di viding dividing line common to both claims some stakes being in the brush the others in the open ground in the middle of the dividing line was a tree blazed on both sides on one of which the notice of location was posted describing the claims by courses and distances running from the tree to a stake and from stake to stake to point of beginning the ledge of the claim had been sufficiently developed to show its existence and direction held that the location sufficiently complied with rev st S see sec 2324 requiring 0 that the location must he be distinctly mark marked ed on the el ground around so th that at its boundaries can be readily I 1 traced eaton v norris et ct al cal 63 pac rep location of fining alining A 0 claims by deputy U S surveyor void even after tran transferred to innocent purchasers it was held in our district court here judge ha hall 11 presiding in the case of lavagnino v oble ig I 1 that the location of a mining claim made by a deputy mineral minera I 1 surveyor in his own name who afterwards transferred to a third party waa absolutely void and that a subsequent location of the same ground by other parties was a valid a appropriation of the areas in dispute notwithstanding s uch such first location it is stated that the case will be appealed and the outcome will be watched with considerable interest by the members of the bar and the mining fraternity generally 41 4 eaf U t L W k 1 at t GENERAL VIEW OF THE DIXIE MINE AND surroundings |