Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands (Volume 31) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1903. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 155. The title-page of the field notes mu.st contain the post-office address of the claimant or his authorized agent. 156. In the mineral surveyor's certificate of the value of the improvements all actual expenditures and minimi improvements made by the claimant or his grantors, having a direct relation to the development of the claim, must he included in the estimate. 157. The expenditures required may he made from the surface or in running a tunnel, drifts, or crosscuts for the development of the claim. Improvements of any other character, such as buildings, machinery, or roadways, must be excluded from the estimate, unless it is shown clearly that they are associated with actual excavations, such as cuts, tunnels, shafts, etc., are essential to the practical development of, and actually facilitate the extraction of mineral from, the claim. 158. All mining and other improvements claimed will be located by courses and distances from corners of the survey, or from points on the center or side lines, specifying with particularity and detail the dimensions and character of each, and the improvements upon each location should be numbered consecutively, the point of discovery being always No. 1. Improvements made upon other locations, or by a former locator who has abandoned the claim, can not be included in the estimate, hut should be described and located in the notes and plat. 159. In case of a lode and mill-site claim in the same survey the expenditure of live hundred dollars must be shown upon the lode claim. 160. If the value of the labor and improvements upon a mineral claim is less than five hundred dollars at the time of survey, the mineral surveyor may tile with the surveyor-general supplemental proof showing five hundred dollars expenditure made ...