Show stake correctly lo 10 the matter of locating and staking claims many prospectors are very kounla I 1 careless says the belt mountain I 1 miner hiner in fact it is elated stated and w with ith too much truth that few claims in this district are properly located on this point the law is very plain and if a claim is worth locating and recording the locators should certainly follow every provision of the law closel closely Y according to the statutes a claim may be located along a lode or ledge tor for I 1 1600 feet and not less than 23 25 or more than feet on each bide side of the da discovery covery ithe abe discovery discover either shaft baft or tunnel must be the starting tatting point of the measurements and the staking of the claim the law emphasizes the point borne some of the most valuable proper property ty in the belt mountain is now under contest arising from a mistake made in the location contests would not have been possible with the consequent the title of the property had bid the locator complied strictly with the Is law w to make the matter plainer we illustrate suppose A makes make a a d discovery is covery feet east from the aide side lines of of a claim already located in staking ground be he does not commence at the discovery but goes feet southwest and bets sets th the southwest corner cornet stake I 1 thence ran runs COO feet easterly to the southeast corner thence northerly 1 1500 feet to the northeast corn corner r thence southerly 1500 feet to the southwest corner and does not mention the discovery A afterwards finds favorable indications feet cast of his discovery and beta sets to work he ile ie is i aside of his stakes bat but ie is beyond the limit the law now allows on either eide side of the discovery B cornea comes a along long and sad reads aa As location notice having some doubts and desiring the ground measures the distance from the discovery to the point where A has been at work feet to one aide side of bis his discovery and believing lieving ba the location not valid locates the ground lying east of th the point feet east of As discovery althou although chiva this takes in the ground round on which A ba has done most of III bis work B claims be he can bold hold it la in all probability the question wili will be settled in the courts the law however is quite plain on the point the description of the exterior boundaries is fit another point on which many are careless car elees last month we were shown the location notices of some bomb valuable mining prope property r Y which are not worth the paper t they he were written on following I 1 m a ver bation copy of one them bea beginning at this discovery shaft running thence east feet to east center end stake thence I 1 west feet to northwest corner stake thence west feet to northwest corner stake thence west feet to northwest corner stake thence west C COO 00 feet to east corner side stake 11 if that notice describes the boundaries of any tract of ground we fail to see it th the 0 claim which it t was intended to describe ia is not miles from this office and there are several tons of good ore on the dump the other notices w which we saw were lust just as faulty I 1 in 0 fact in the whole lot there was not a single I 1 a i I 1 e one which described the boundaries t 1 e B of any single piece of ground suppose someone comes along and reads these notices sees that they are not legal and jumps the ground on whom will the blame rest ignorance excuses no one if yoa you have a claim worth locating see that the notice is properly written the corner stakes should be at least four inches square at the top an in J it ia to a good plan to write the name of the claim and corner on each stake |