Show fee simple titles 0 o 7 mineral 1 lands Ija nils on da the th e of j july lily 1666 an in I 1 act of congress wis was r appo in I 1 1 bicel wc i to enable cla claimants imants of gold silver cinnabar and copper veins to ob ta baui it from the government a p patent abent c conveying ony a re fc ample title for a low which was supposed to 0 involve so many the act js is peculiarly peculia ily lly clear simple and one would suppose easy of execution aud and enforcement that it is eminently just and demanded by the widespread wide spread mineral interests of ortho the country is manifest it provides substantially that tiny any claimant or association of 0 persona in ia tho actual and undisputed occupancy by worling working of a vein of any of ortho the metals specified aboe e and who have expended ded a sum of not not les less s than one th thousand dollies dallai sin in actual labor and impi elements the icon may obtain a patent lor for such tract on complying with the I 1 local laii hs s customs antl and rules of the miners of the district and filing in tho the local land office f diagram ortho tract or oi vein fal taken lien up upon filing tins this diagram ind ani posting it on tho the claim with W ith a notice of intention to apply for a patent the ie gitter of the land office is re to publish the notice for ninety dabs da 6 in the nearest newspaper and also pot post it in his office if at the expiration of this time no adverse claimant alpar tile the surveyor general surveys tho the premises pie pier altes males makes mal es it a plat of tho the same ame and the register on the payment by tho the claimant Ift imant of if five fire dollars per act acie C with the cost of the sul auy transmits the plat survey and description to the general land office who e upon apon the patent issues locations matle made on lands ale aie authorized zith with the proviso that the future public siu sax voys shall be to the limits of tho the premi premises seq as wigi originally nally located and surveyed it is also pio that no locations made after the passage ap pp mag ge of the ket act shall exceed two bundled feet in length along tho the rei ein i for each locator with an additional claim for dis discovery covely to the discoverer of the vein aud and no other person is ia allowed to make more than one cocat location on on the same lode not noi shall any rs association take 1 fal moie than throe thousand ferfon each cin in case cae of any adverse clum being interposed proceedings are sta stayed until the claimants settle their ai difFers rances aces in ia some ome court of competent jiu jarib diction now as we have said all this is ig very simple simpie and the machinery of tho the law free from complesi fy yet we understand that in california find and koyada Za No Tada yada vl ere vast mining interests have arisen clai claimants of veins of oie are unable to p infect choh titles as authorized by the law because the land officers decline to act until the department at wa washington hington I 1 adopts rules and i illations il lations for their guidance wo had ben absen under the impression that the miners of utah who desire to obtain patents for silver mines developed by them 4 were unfortunate because we ive havo have not a single ingle land office in the whole territory butas but as V is baid to love company our miners 1 cau can solace themselves with the consolin consoling re liec tion that even in california alifornia theio nacio they hive land offices established they tile no bettor te r off in this particular tho the machinery I 1 cant be set in motion bt because cause it seems to be bound up in that strongest of all cordage I 1 red tape by and by and at a not tely I 1 distant I 1 day clay we hope land offices office swill will be established 4 in utah as well for the interests of the agricultural as the milli mining tig portion of the population As it is the farmers no less than the he miners are mete meio squatters on the public r domain with only possessor rights right 3 and no i real title to the tuil soil thy cultivate or dig at the list last sef session sion of congress however that body for tho the first time recognized these there posse possessor sory ii rights abts of fineis on the public domain and gave their i tiles rul s and reg regulations ions the force of lw 1 v in the act detaching part of utah and addin adding it to nevada it was expressly provided that all possessory rights acquired 11 by citizens of the untied states to 1 mining claims diF discovered covered located and originally I 1 I 1 recorded in complin compliance the rules I 1 I 1 mul and re 9 wis adapted ly by the in the 1 at and other othar mining districts in the territory ceded shall remain ain as valid subsisting mining claims this act was approved slay bray ath 1866 I 1 in the act of july 1860 above referred I 1 to tho the mineral lands ends of the public domain gre are I 1 I 1 dec declared larvAl to be use flea ancl ana 1 open to exploration and alid occupation by all cit citizens iLens of the united states and those who rho have hava declared their intention I 1 to become cl citizens iti lis subject to such reg I 1 il lations ions as may be prescribed by law and sub I 1 jad eject also to lo the local or rules of miners in in me several so far as tile the 1 1 same may not be in conflict with tho the laws of the united states throughout the whole of that act authorizing I 1 I 1 min pre of mining ground and tho the 1 I 1 issuing op L patents agents thara for the regulations of I 1 tho the miners in the districts are recognized I 1 and made valid alid binding this was dona alone I 1 ia Calif california Ullia at an early day so far aj ai a j the I 1 i of the state could do it and it is ia gratifying to lo know that coli congress reas has at last I 1 done tardy justice iti in this matter it saves an infinite amount of complex legislation and I 1 litigation litia tion and maltes makes tl the lie miners of each district II 11 I 1 I 1 a sort of local legislature for the government 1 1 men t of their communities in all that pertains 14 to th mining 1 property interest inte reeta |