A Treatise on the American Law Relating to Mines and Mineral Lands Within the Public Land States and Territories and Governing the Acquisition and Enjoyment of Mining Rights in Lands of Public Domain, Volume 2 |
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Page 940
... contained . " 1 These terms were supposed to be comprehensive enough to take laterally and in depth what the miner failed to obtain longitudinally . Much controversy arose in the early days over rights asserted under the claim to ...
... contained . " 1 These terms were supposed to be comprehensive enough to take laterally and in depth what the miner failed to obtain longitudinally . Much controversy arose in the early days over rights asserted under the claim to ...
Page 941
... , prior to patent under the act of July 26 , 1866. - Section four of the act of July 26 , 1866 , contained the following pro- vision : - " No location hereafter made shall exceed two hun- " 941 8567 PURSUIT OF VEIN IN DEPTH .
... , prior to patent under the act of July 26 , 1866. - Section four of the act of July 26 , 1866 , contained the following pro- vision : - " No location hereafter made shall exceed two hun- " 941 8567 PURSUIT OF VEIN IN DEPTH .
Page 949
... contained the following provision : - " Whenever any person or association of persons " claim a vein or lode of quartz , or other rock in place , " bearing gold , silver , cinnabar , or copper , having pre- " viously occupied and ...
... contained the following provision : - " Whenever any person or association of persons " claim a vein or lode of quartz , or other rock in place , " bearing gold , silver , cinnabar , or copper , having pre- " viously occupied and ...
Page 951
... contained the following re- strictive clause : - " The grant hereby made is restricted to one vein , " or lode , with the surface ground ; to wit , the " ledge , upon which the required improvements are " found ; and that any other vein ...
... contained the following re- strictive clause : - " The grant hereby made is restricted to one vein , " or lode , with the surface ground ; to wit , the " ledge , upon which the required improvements are " found ; and that any other vein ...
Page 971
... contained in the pat- ent commenced at the south end of the claim . The contention of the Argonaut Mining Company was as follows : - ( 1 ) The title of the Argonaut company to the Pioneer , or Argonaut , mine originated , ripened , and ...
... contained in the pat- ent commenced at the south end of the claim . The contention of the Argonaut Mining Company was as follows : - ( 1 ) The title of the Argonaut company to the Pioneer , or Argonaut , mine originated , ripened , and ...
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Page 1629 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 1832 - ... the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location.
Page 1648 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, render such limitation necessary.
Page 1647 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
Page 1650 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes, and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side lines of such surface locations.
Page 1652 - ... may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent co-owner personal notice in writing or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or by publication such delinquent...
Page 1743 - Every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States...
Page 1637 - ... failure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered as an abandonment of the right to all undiscovered veins on the line of such tunnel.
Page 1458 - We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril ; and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Page 1369 - ... filing his claim, to commence proceedings, in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.