Show TROUBLE IN NEVADA IT V S H Mineral i Surveyors Al Alleged l 1 In III I I lit u 0 Lituss A new dwindle In public lands and andone andone one that promises to be ho of oC gigantic proportions la is on tin the tho point of oC being d 11 by b the land of oC the tho Unit States government sa says H n a Nevada cx ex exchange change Tho fhe scene of oC the tho frauds Is in lit III tim the lIew gold Holds of oC Nevada It Is IR al ai alleged that tho time United States deputy mineral surveyors have b n locating claims and niti dealing widely In mining properties contrary tu to the thu law Section l 52 of the tue revised statutes of oC the United States Staten says sa s Alt All 11 clerks In office of ot the soy sur surveyor RUIf f or general genera of oC local ollices and th tio land onlee or Ol any ony persons wherever located employed under the tha supervision lolI of ot tho the commissioner of oC the tue theland land lanI are arc during such mich employ employment mont ment prohibited from Crom entering or be becoming becoming coming interested In any allY public lands of ot tho tim United States Slates In Iii 11 addition the court of or the United States Slates hue has held that till fill public lands hands located by 13 b deputy United Suite Stilted mineral surveyors surveyor ollI hall be ho held for ran can and that such locutions art an artI Invalid I Id IdIn In the fare face of oC this prohibition It Is 18 claimed that deputy surveyors In and an about lie tho Nevada gold gait fleW have been beell locating daunt claims either In their own or through confederate ii mid sell selling sellIng ing them One surveyor In Hawthorne Is 18 silO to have made In the last las two years yearn y by this method In all probability probability ability the titles obtained from ron the tiie themen men tile are uro void thO thic original location being behl Invalid unit and many rany Innocent pur nor purchasers chasers will be hi i able to a holt hold their lur I Ionly only by h Immediately relocating At Atthe Atthe Atthe the present pru nt tine time it Is b not how wide the area nf nt these th pe alleged frauds IM is I htmL but It Is IR already surmised that they may extend e not only through Nevada rella hut but also al o Utah lIah and Arizona and Cull Cali California fornia Cornia The method nf oC the manipulators Is In tn In III ltd its simplicity jy Ily J the laws of or the tue United I nit 10 States ony citizen or oralien oralien alien having made a of oC In Intention to become beonie bl omO n tu citizen van lan locate II n a ruining mining claim Calm upon 1111 this the United States public binds such claims to b be not more moro than hail t I 1500 fret feel In III ii length 1 COO f feet et In III width A lI locating usually Ioe so Ito o by h marking the thi Ima te boundaries A dep deputy deputy uty mineral I surveyor Ihn Chico measures It Ita accurately a ly A As n II 1 prospector usually over his hl rough there Is 18 nearly n r always a n fraction traction left leftover leftover over 01 It I t Is 18 b th o fractions that are claimed the United Status Slates mineral mineraI surveyors have been locating lorn till on their own nan account and In III some Mme cases ad td adjoining joining limit Usually till this is t done deco b bI but hut It IB is suld that t tIn In many cases caie that these men niemi hav been heen bold bolt enough tn to t tin do It u In lit their heir own ova Mme AH At 11 the tile opinion of lit the th States I surveyor RUn upon the tue value of properties stand tand high with the Inventing public It II Is I then un easy y for Cor them to dispose of ot their claims nt at good prices price Complaints from rein buyers huyers who have found Cound their title worthless from the filet fact that such uch locations location lire are Invalid have ha t been matte made of ot hue late to the m ment nt of c if the tho Interior and 1111 1 nn an Investigation tion lion Is II place |