Show RECENT MINING DECISIONS by judge B D V higgins D F walker block mining location what applied on annual assessment work where the locators of a quartz mine after being in possession for several years and expending 1000 in developing it suspended work and during a year did only 25 worth of work on the mines but hired a man to live in a house on the location to watch the property the amount paid him could not be counted to make up the worth of work each year in working the mine required by act of congress to preserve their right to the location hough et al v hunt et al gala cala 70 pac kept 1059 mining claim description and boundaries rev st 2324 provides that the location of a mining claim must be distinctly marked on the ground so that its boundaries can be readily traced and that all records of such claim shall contain such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim held that a claim marked by a blazed tree at the point where the notice of location was posted and on one of the boundary lines and three corner stakes placed at stated distances from the tha notice and from each other and the dis tance of the lines leading to and from a corner at which no stake was placed was accurately stated was designated to enable a surveyor to ascertain the exact limits of the location and was therefore sut fici ent circuit court north dakota welsh v erwin fed validity of location rights rights of a lode mining claim apply only to what is beneath the surface and never operate to enlarge surface rights which under the statute are limited to feet in width on each side of the center of the ledge or lode and where the ledge or lode is of greater width so that the outcrop out crop pings extend beyond a side line another claim may be located thereon which will carry all surface rights within its boundaries and underground rights subject to those of the older claims and where the end line planes of the two claims are not parallel or do not coincide the second locator may follow the vein in its dip between the planes of his own end lines wherever not included between the end line planes of the senior location as against any subsequent locator along the lode beyond an end line of the first claim empire state idaho mining developing co vs bunker hill sullivan M co fed reft |