| Show glint lineral lin iral ral we ire halt be t glad flail to swe f buy any of obier I 1 iny friends of our office and receive from rom aam them any details ofa ei their prospects prospect 9 and labor abor we ft invite all aji who have afire any mineral information to give ut a call THE MINING LAW nn dauer ri 1 since ilia iho publication of my my articles on mining JARV and coal and iron landu lands many ivr nuna sonis bavo me lea to continue my artl cles sad give eo a general mind complete 0 au 6 ion of tho site meaning of 0 ill all lw laws now in ili co forchi 1 of f ft publia anti and character lear upon tuo the mining inter vAta of the counter I 1 horo haro ilia alio matter lad and conchua conc con clua luil td ed t d to furnish for publication in tho the a series of articles upon tho the from filco to time as my permal in ili doing tull this I 1 ideall rn cri deavor to be candid and nd fair lind bud onoto in fil levery every od ed upon ain and sayo airo only illy ov oiin A constriction of f it ii anti not Br to any of I 1 will leave vo every ono to form anil and enjoy their own oira view rim of it whether they with mo me or not I 1 boball brgan hoo y clearing away the branches befaro the broo or main body of tho the lw law by dispo disposal sul of all U udo side questions or mattani of of review in gait all 00 connected nn acted subjects anti gitig apart apon the fidd of inquiry into ilia meaning of tile main of 01 the mining llin laws I 1 shall hall bugla tho the subject with A rei low of tie tho light right sti win tail of m aid to tunnel lafane it sirwell known that this ailais aist of claims have been locilia for many years post and maril were 1101 1 only coly br local ocal District laws tho the auction ill it at once true can tho the dis triet or local loal uw laws of mines c confor rights righta or give giro title to these et aims to properly oon con sidur this wo we must look back at tho the state of tiffin affairs that existed at tho ilia timo time the miners first fint t themselves above congram AS a law mak ing wo cad that st that amo all thu great country including two tiro anti and three or more Tem tonee bad ro cendy been ceded by mexico to uio the united sut nl I 1 hit the mexican end nd spanish laws lam hul had followed the ceded territory as lw law by custom tal and usage A amona in on 0 other ill cr ill in theno iowa provided that tho the adro a DI d al ri colda should bo be tao principal men man in dign ing to tho the locator the Tim claimed by liim him thin dul not suit alt uio the ram raco of in inquiring freethinking self bek americans who bo became tho the pioneers pion ecra anti ad prospectors IQ in the uw new el 1 domdom sad nil Ar argentines gentines to 0 tuny they adopted tho the principle of kul into districts and set ft tip is ir 0 for themselves local laws lab wire vw the only on lyla laws they bm bad or at aleut leut that they regarded until toy lev cral years when codeno cuno came to kid and AS congress win and add is IB tho the only lody body which could coald make imko valid laws for the dis din aci of any portion of the public domald domain luh laws law bo be received sit paramount to 3 all 11 others I 1 the of Cou our irreas rc for tho the dapo ai of tile public domain to pro pre or locators have bavo tit to 0 branches branc bai one on by which A lands landi may be obtain it the ilia other to mineral nii lands one OB wea DOOC of the surface chalo tho the other is in raed to gnat right to thit that which ii bo be meath the surface yet couples couple with it 0 of f the ho surface for the working of that which is 1 belofi the ant tenon section willa of abo first of f those laws iw in relation to maung duning maeral that of july nth IM provides tint that tho the lands 4 IS are hereby declared to be arto anti and an open to ft ex It and by 0 af pub jcck to such regulations an rosy may be prescribed by law it end od subject to tho the local customs or 11 r rule c 0 of f miners in like lie several mining du cho tri acts so 10 fu far as the tarns tame may not bo be in con flat illi fill the iho I 1 liiri a tra of 01 tho the vill stats tho the second lection of uio tile tamo same liw law provide for a patent to bay ny vein tin or lodo of carlz or othir other rock la in place fairing lairing gold si yet cinnabar or cop copper rot but in no DO place roaro to tuned tumid claims I 1 abla ids thin then lec tho the matter in this condl tiou that the prospector might go upon tho the public domain to explore and occupy aab kloct act to local rules but it if he bo discovered or opened a vein or lodo vt of quartz I 1 caci he bo could only hold it I 1 by gain again pro locating clalra ing ansa abd worling the atin or bodein lode la accordance willi tho local mk rul s and nil n ja in relation thereto and da B BO ce of course the ono one who firt first discovered cl admed I 1 located sail and recorded that lodo or vein we old hold it no BO matter who bo first located a tunnel on the timo am it will bo be seen that ill tunnel fine oi claims lins were entirely valueless un ns abo old lair to largo companies compin tc or th arlio he have abundo of econs to prospect ct lor for wines minai by dicato of a tunnel ln tho the ian language go of tile miner 46 to gopher for priority of claim that tbt Is there wu was no priority of claim that be L carried or from a tunnel to a lodo no of n alit ailt to a certain quantity of gonad To nad with all tile mines to be 1 found no properly in tho the right of clum and uil location loc alioa could bo made laido ai namable any than llian the iho right to and explore aich every ono holds shia except that ono nun mail or rot act of men could not go into anybody clims inane flannel so 0 o long is bill uio the claimant clau nant was van in possession of it in accordance with local laws law but thoy they might loeta and hold ono as near to it be aa they pleas tit cd and tho the first ODO to strike a acin or lodo thereto ir atho ono ca titled to hold it and ami git patent for it hi 81 evil the subject of tunnel clainie it ill he cou CI eluded udell to bonow mon ow ev edl I 1 |
