INDEX

First number indicates chapter. Second number indicates section of that chapter.

Accuracy (survey): 5–2, 5–5, 5–13
Acquired Lands: 1–25
Act of 1866 (lodes): 1–5
Act of 1870 (placers): 1–6
Act of 1872 (general mining laws): 1–7
Act of 1884 (Alaska): 1–9
Act of 1892 (building stone): 1–10
Act of 1904 (monuments to control): 1–13
Act of 1920 (mineral leasing): 1–14
Act of 1947 (materials): 1–15
Act of 1954 (multiple use): 1–16
Act of 1955 (common varieties): 1–17
Act of 1955 (power sites): 1–18
Act of 1960 (mill sites): 1–19
Act of 1962 (petrified wood): 1–20
Act of 1970 (geothermal steam): 1–21
Act of 1976 (recordation): 1–22
Additional and Amended Location Certificate: 2–13, 4–6
Additional Notes and Certificate on Plat: 5–18
Alaska: 1–9, 1–23, 1–24
Alaska Native Claims: 1–23
Alaska Public Sale Act: 1–24
Amended Location: 2–13, 5–1, 5–3, 5–20
Amended (Supplemental) Order for Survey: 4–6, 4–7, 5–3, 5–21
Amended Survey: 5–19
Annual Assessment Work: 2–4, 2–12
Apex Law: 1–49
Application for Patent: 2–6
Application for Survey: 4–4
Approval of Survey: 5–15
Areas: 5–8, 5–10, 5–12, 5–13
Areas subject to special mining laws: 1–24
Assays: 2–1
Attorney-at-Law: 1–43, 4–3
Azimuth: 5–10
Bearing rocks: 5–4
Bearing trees: 5–4, 5–10
Bedded deposits: 1–48, 2–1, 5–3, 5–5
Blanket veins: 5–3, 5–5
Building stone: 1–10
Burden of proof: 2–1, 2–12
Calculations: 5–8, 5–13
Cancelled Survey: 4–6, 5–16
Cancelled Survey Order: 4–6, 4–8, 5–17
Cemeteries: 5–3
Change of claim boundaries: 2–13
Claim records: 4–5, 5–1
Claim staking: 2–3
Closures: 5–13
Coal Surveys: 5–3
Common Improvement: 1–47, 5–5
Common Varieties: 1–17
Conflicts: 5–3, 5–8, 5–12, 5–13
Coordinates
- Geographic: 5–10, 5–12
- Plane: 5–1
Corner accessories: 5–4
Corner markings: 2–3, 5–10
Corner numbers: 2–3
Corners on patented land: 2–3
Corner ties: 2–3, 5–3, 5–8, 5–12
Death Valley National Monument, California: 1–24
Descriptive Report (placer claims): 5–6
Discovery: 1–47, 2–1, 2–4, 5–3
Discovery lost: 2–1
Discovery paint: 2–2, 5–3, 5–12
Discovery shaft: 2–3
Discovery work: 2–2, 2–5, 5–1, 5–5
Drill logs: 2–1
Electronic distance measurement: 5–2
End center monuments: 2–3
End lines: 1–49, 2–3, 5–12
Errors: 5–12, 6–5
Exchanges: 1–23
Extralateral Rights: 1–49
Field Notes: 5–10, 5–11, 5–12, 5–18
Fissionable source material: 1–23
Float: 2–1
Goethermal steam: 1–25
Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska: 1–24
Homestead Entry Surveys: 5–3
Improvements: 5–5, 5–7, 5–10, 5–12, 5–15, 5–21
Indemnity Grants: 1–23
Instruments: 5–2, 5–10
Intersections: 5–8, 5–10, 5–12, 5–13
Junior claim: 1–49
Kings Range National Conservation Area, California: 1–24
Known lodes in placers: 2–4
Leasing Act: 1–14
Length: 2–3, 2–6, 4–6, 5–3, 5–12
Location: 2–3, 2–6, 2–8, 2–9, 5–3, 5–10, 5–12
Location certificate: 2–3, 2–6, 4–6, 5–10
Location monument: 5–3
Location notice: 2–3, 2–6, 2–7
Location survey: 2–3
Lode v. Placer: 2–1
Lode claims: 1–5, 1–7, 2–1, 2–2, 2–3
Lode line: 5–12
Magnetic Declination: 5–12
Marketability: 2–1, 2–4
Materials Act: 1–15
Measurements: 5–2, 5–10
Metes and bounds: 2–3, 4–6
Mill Sites: 1–7, 1–19, 2–7, 2–8, 5–7
Mineral, definition: 2–1
Mineral Examiner: 2–1
Mineral Monuments: 5–3
Mineral Survey: 2–6
Mineral Surveyor
- Appointment: 3–1, 3–2, 3–3, 3–4, 3–5, 3–6
- Contracts: 3–14, 3–15, 3–16, 3–17, 4–4.7
- Duties: 3–10, 3–11, 3–12, 3–13
- Examination: 3–9
- Qualifications: 3–7, 3–8
- Restrictions: 3–18, 3–19, 3–20
- Selection of: 4–2
Mining Districts: 1–1, 1–2, 1–3
Mt. McKinley National Park, Alaska: 1–24
Multiple Use: 1–16
National Forests: 1–23, 4–6
National Parks and Monuments: 1–24, 4–6
Native graves: 5–3
Navigable water: 1–50
New legislation, update: 1–25
New survey required: 5–20
Number of claims: 2–3, 2–6, 2–8, 4–4.7
O & C Lands: 1–24
Oil shale placer claims: 1–24
Olympic National Park, Washington: 1–24
Order for Survey: 4–6, 5–17
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona: 1–24
Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona: 1–24
Patent
- Exclusion of abandoned claim: 5–23
- In two parts: 5–24
- Long after survey: 5–22
Patent expenditure: 1–47, 5–5, 5–15, 5–21
Patent survey
- Departures from normal procedure: 5–16 to 5–24 incl.
- Field work: 5–1 to 5–7 incl.
- Office work: 5–8 to 5–11 incl.
- Processing: 5–12 to 5–15 incl.
- Required: 4–1, 5–6, 5–7
Petrified Wood: 1–20
Placer claims: 1–6, 1–7, 2–4, 2–5, 2–6, 5–6
Placer v. Lode: 2–1
Plats: 5–9, 5–11, 5–14, 5–16, 5–18, 5–19, 6–4
Power Sites: 1–18
Prescott, Arizona Watershed: 1–24
Railroad Grants: 1–23
Recording: 1–7, 1–22, 2–11, 2–12
Reference Monument: 5–4
Relocation: 2–13, 5–20
Reservations: 1–23
Restoration of lost or obliterated corners: 5–3, 6–1
Resurveys: 6–2
Rights-of-way: 5–3
Riparian Rights: 1–50
Rule of approximation: 2–6
School Grants: 1–23
Senior claim: 1–49
Segregation Surveys: 6–3
Severance: 1–23
Side center monuments: 2–3
Size of claims: 2–3, 2–6, 2–7, 4–6
Spanish Land Grants: 1–23
Special Surveys: 5–3
State mining laws, general: 1–27
- Alaska: 1–28
- Arizona: 1–29
- Arkansas: 1–30
- California: 1–31
- Colorado: 1–32
- Florida: 1–33
- Idaho: 1–34
- Louisiana: 1–35
- Mississippi: 1–36
- Montana: 1–37
- Nebraska: 1–38
- Nevada: 1–39
- New Mexico: 1–40
- North Dakota: 1–41
- Oregon: 1–42
- South Dakota: 1–43
- Utah: 1–44
- Washington: 1–45
- Wyoming: 1–46
Stockraising Homesteads: 1–23, 5–3
Supplemental Plat: 5–16, 6–4
Survey methods: 2–3, 5–2
Survey records: 4–5, 5–1
Surveyor and The Law: 1–47, 1–48
Thorium: 1–23
Townsites: 1–23, 5–3
Trace of mineral: 2–1, 2–4
Transit and Tape: 5–2
Tunnel Sites: 2–9, 2–10
U.S. Marshall: 5–1
U.S. Surveys: 5–3
Unapproved survey: 5–17
Underground discovery: 2–1, 2–2
Uranium: 1–23
Use, mill site: 2–8
Valuable mineral deposit: 2–1
Width: 2–3, 2–6, 4–6, 5–3, 5–12
Wilderness Areas: 1–24
Witness Corner: 5–4
Withdrawals: 1–23, 4–5

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.