Show RECENT MINING DECISIONS prepared for the review by judge E V higgins mining claims location description pol code section declares that a locator of a mining claim must define boundaries by marking a tree or rock or setting a post or stone at each corner and that when a post is used it must be at least four inches square by four feet six inches in length set one foot in ground with a mound of earth or stone four feet in diameter by four feet high around it section provides that within thirty days of posting the location notice on a claim there must be filed in the county clerks office a declaratory statement which must contain among other things the location and description of each corner with the markings thereon A declaratory statement described each corner as a stake over four inches square set at least one foot in the ground surrounded with a mound of earth and stone four feet in diameter and two feet high the corner posts were in fact four and a half feet high held that the description of the corner posts was a substantial compliance with the statute and ana not fatally defective for failure to state viat mat the corner posts were four and a half feet high walker et al v et al montana 71 pacific 56 mines abandonment relocation first under the direct provisions of rev st U S section 2324 a failure to perform the annual labor on a mining claim does not render it open to a relocation provided before such relocation the owners of the claim have resumed work thereon second in order that thai the annual assessment ses work performer per formea on one mining location may inure to the benefit of several it is necessary that there exist a community of interests in all th the locations that is the owners of each claim must be the same although the degree of ownership or title may be different third work on one location may be done for all of a group of claims held in common where it appears that such work is of such a character as tends approximately and directly to develop the group of claims for the benefit of which it was performed little dorrit gold mining company v arapahoe gold mining co colo 71 pacific |