An act approved February 11th 1875, so amends Section 2324, Revised Statutes, as to provide that where “a person or company has or may run a tunnel for the purpose of developing a lode or lodes owned by said person or company, the money so expended on said tunnel shall be taken and considered as expended on said lode or lodes, whether located prior to or since the passage of said act; and such person or company shall not be required to perform work on the surface of said lode or lodes in order to hold the same, as required by said act.”
Recording Location.
Within a reasonable time, after the location shall have been marked on the ground, notice thereof, accurately describing the claim in manner aforesaid, should be filed for record with the proper recorder of the district, who will thereupon issue the usual certificate of location. The district regulations or customs are followed in this regard. Within ninety days after location, a location certificate must be filed in the office of the Recorder, in the county in which the lode is situated, which should be in the following form:
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Know all Men by these Presents, That —— the undersigned, ha—— this —— day of —— A. D. 1877, located and claimed, and by these presents do locate and claim, by right of discovery and location, in compliance with the Mining Acts of Congress, approved May 19th, A. D. 1872, and all subsequent Acts, and with the local customs, laws and regulations, —— feet, linear and horizontal measurement, on the —— Lode, along the vein thereof, with all its dips, angles and variations, together with —— feet on each side of the middle of said vein at the surface; and all veins, lodes, ledges and surface ground within the lines of said claim —— feet, running —— from center of discovery shaft. Said discovery shaft being situate upon said lode, and within the lines of said claim in —— Mining District, county of —— and Territory of Arizona, and further described as follows:
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Said lode was located on the —— day of —— A. D. 1877.
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| Date of certificate, —————— A. D. 1877. |
Labor and Expenditures.
In order to hold the possessory rights to a claim of 1,500 feet of a vein or lode located as aforesaid, the Act requires that until a patent shall have been issued therefor, not less than $100 worth of labor on the basis adopted by the local mining regulations shall be performed, or improvements made thereon, during each year; in default of which the claim will be subject to re-location by any other party having the necessary qualifications, unless the original locator, his heirs, assigns or legal representatives have resumed work thereon after such failure and before such re-location. The importance of attending to these details in the matter of location, labor and expenditure will be the more readily perceived, when it is understood that a failure to give the subject proper attention, may invalidate the claim.