Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...a job well done, but it is not intended to imply that a notice not so complete as here sketched would be invalid. But very few contain every item in detail, yet the nearer it approaches to the correct thing the more safely can the prospector leave his claim to the tender mercies of the elements. How To Make A Location.--Placer and Coal.--In making a location of placer or coal ground on surveyed land the location notice should describe the ground by the usual legal subdivisions, and this will constitute a valid description because it can be immediately filed in the United States land office and become the best public notice obtainable; but if the placer claim is on unsurveyed land, a monument must be set at every change in the direction of the exterior boundaries and mentioned in the location notice. Coal lands can only be taken in legal subdivisions as platted on the ordinary land surveys, and cannot be purchased before survey of the township has been made. Lodes.--In the case of lode claims it is customary to set the ends of the lode line and the four corners of the claim, but there have been decisions by the general land office in which, with only the end center stakes established, the locations were sustained. If this method be employed the discovery stake, as well as the monuments at the ends of the claim, should be most thoroughly established, and all of them should plainly show that the locator claims a definitely specified distance on each side of his lode line. Such decisions are based on the theory that the surface ground is granted only to enable the miner to work his claim to the best advantage, and on the further idea that a person finding a lode will naturally follow the outcrop in the course of his examination, and must...
