| Show point of assessment law A correspondent writes will you plea e deride the following A vapors V avers that scot 30 on one claim a of f a group ol of claims Is sufficient to procure a patent on nuch much group a sava cava that all work may be done on one claim hut but that tho the expenditure must hr be SW W for each A wins vins the wager the manner of obtaining patents to mineral lands Is set pet forth in section 2325 of the united states slates mining laws and the rulings of 0 the department of tile the interior have always been that in the application for patent on a consolidated group of live five mining claims owned by one person or one association of persons all that Is necessary Is to show by the certificate of the ilia surveyor gendral gen era I 1 that has been expended on OIL the group for its tie de t all the work may be done on one claim provided it can call lie be shown that the work tended to the development of that claim and the other four |