Show IMPORTANT TO MINERS An Opinion on Validity of Previous Pre-vious Locations Correspondence of the DEMOCRAT I A correspondent of the Tribune alludes to the case of a mining claim in Nevada I on which an application for a patent had I been made papers properly filed published pub-lished entry made and certificate granted upon the payment of the required sum per acre All this some two or three years ago The owner it is claimed had complied with the law and all obligation n L 1 further assessment wont to perform ceased Pending the issue of the patent I other parties performed work on the claim and relocated it claiming that notwithstanding i not-withstanding the 500 expenditure of the original parties and payment and entry of the surface area their failure to continue con-tinue the yearly assessment work until the patent was actually issued was fatal to their claim and made relocatable Now it is clearly evident that when have fully complied with the law parties the precedent to the issue of a patent title equitably passes to them from the Government the clerical work necessary to furnish the written evidence of such title only remains to be done and it is to of the Government the bound n duty forthwith The sur deliver the patent in question has ceased to belong face area domain and has become to the public has complied the who of party the property the land for plied with the law and paid State in some cases The delay of the the patent in 110 sense for years invalidates to deliver the perfected title of the delay such criminal by party aggrieved to such a contract individual party If an consideration received the should having to fur land neglect tion on such sale of evidence of said nish deed as record a at law for sale he would be justly liable I whatever damage might accrue to the I actual purchaser by reason of such criminal crim-inal neglect This is a common sense view and the decisions sustain it There must bo fraud or something equivalent in the Nebraska case to give it a standing in the courts where it is now awaiting adjudication |