JNO. LYNCH CHEMIST AND ASSAYER Respectfully solicits all classes of MILL TESTS OF ALL KINDS ENGINEERS' AND UMPIRE WORK A SPECIALTY GOLD AND SILVER BULLION 739 South Main Street Los Angeles, PHONE HOME F 5700 California MINING LAWS OF UTAH (See also U. S. Mining Laws.) Mining Act of 1899. An Act providing for the Manner of Locating and Recording Quartz and Placer Mining Claims, and Copying Records and Defining the Duties of County Recorders and District Mining Recorders, and Repealing certain Sections of the Revised Statutes of Utah. Section 1. (Extent. No location to be made until discovery of vein.) A Mining Claim, whether located by one or more persons, may equal, but shall not exceed, one thousand five hundred feet in length along the vein or lode; but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim. located. Any lode mining claim may extend three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights render a lesser width necessary. The end lines of each claim must be parallel. 1 Utah 173, 2 Utah 174. Sec. 2. (Monument. Notice.) The locator at the time of making the discovery of such vein or lode, must erect a monument at the place of discovery, and post thereon his notice of location, which notice shall contain: 1st. The name of the lode or claim. 2nd. The name of the locator or locators. 4th. If a lode claim, the number of linear feet claimed in length along the course of the vein each way from the point of discovery, with the width on each side of the center of the vein, and the general course of the vein or lode, as near as may be, and such a description of the claim, located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim. 5th. If a placer or millsite claim, the number of acres or superficial feet claimed, and such a description of the claim. or millsite located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim or millsite. 5 Utah 3, 1 Utah 292, 2 Utah 54, 3 Utah 94, 3 Utah 59, 111 U. S. 350, 3 Utah 77, 3 Utah 235, 7 Utah 8, 151 U. S. 317, 160 U. S. 303, 6 Utah 273, 130 U. S. 256, 4 Utah 521, 116 U. S. 418, 124 U. S. 326, 2 Utah 174, 7 Utah 515, 160 U. S. 303, 10 Utah 266, 11 Utah 324, 9 Utah 192, 3 Utah 160, 98 U. S. 463, 2 Utah 355. Sec. 3. (Boundaries Marked.) Mining Claims and mill sites must be distinctly marked on the ground, so that the boundaries thereof can be readily traced. Sec. 4. (Filing copy of notice. Fee.) Within thirty days from the date of posting the location notice upon the claim, the locator or locators, or his or their assigns, must file for record in the office of the county recorder of the county in which such claim is situated, if said claim be situated without and beyond an original mining district, a substantial copy of such notice of location. Such county recorder shall charge and collect a fee of seventy-five cents for filing and recording and indexing and abstracting such notice; PROVIDED, that such notice of location shall not be abstracted unless a subsequent conveyance affecting the same property be filed for record, when said notice shall be abstracted. 160 U. S. 303. (Amended by act of 1909 post.) Sec. 5. (Notice of assessment work being done.) Every person or company owning a group of claims, and doing the development or assessment work, for said group at one point, shall post a notice upon each claim at the discovery monument, stating where such work is being done, and also post a notice at the entrance of the workings, where said work is done, stating the names of the claims for which the work is done. Sec. 6. (Filing affidavit of work done.) The owner of any quartz lode or placer mining claim who shall do or perform, or cause to be done or performed the annual labor or improvements required by the laws of the United States, in order to prevent a forfeiture of the claim, must, within thirty days after the completion of such work or improvements, file in the office of the county recorder in which the greater part of the mining district, in which such claim is located, is situated, his affidavit or an affidavit or affidavits of the person or persons who performed or directed such labor or made or directed such improvements, and shall file a duplicate thereof with the district mining recorder of the district in which said claim is situated, showing: 1st. The name of the claim, and where situated. 2nd. The number of days work done and the character and value of the improvements placed thereon. 3rd. The date or dates of performing said labor and making said improvements and number of cubic feet of earth or rock removed. 4th. At whose instance or request said work was done, or improvements made. 5th. The actual amount paid for said labor and improve ments, and by whom paid, when the same was not done by the owner or owners of said claim. Such affidavits or duly certified copies thereof shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. 111 U. S. 350, 6 Utah 183, 160 U. S. 303. Sec. 7. (Reorganization of mining districts.) Mining districts may be organized, and all existing districts may be reorganized, and the rules and regulations of the said mining district shall govern the said district according to the laws of the United States, in cases where a district organization is desired; PROVIDED, that the nearest boundary line of any mining district shall not be within ten miles from the county recorder's office of any county. Sec. 8. (Copying records. Expense.) Upon application of the district mining recorder of any mining district to the board of county commissioners of the county having in custody the records of the said mining district, the said board. of county commissioners shall cause the records of such district to be copied by the county recorder, and shall cause all records of documents pertaining to district mining records, recorded since June 4th, 1896, up to the time of delivery, to be recorded in the original records of the mining district in which the property is situated, and the original records when so amended, shall be delivered to such district mining recorder. The copy so made shall remain in the office of the county recorder, and shall be considered as the original record. One-half of the expense of copying such records shall be paid out of the county treasury, and one-half shall be paid out of the state treasury. Sec. 9. (Duplicate notice of location. Fee. Penalty.) It shall be the duty of every district mining recorder to require every person depositing for record a notice of location to make a duplicate copy thereof, which copy said mining recorder shall carefully compare with the original and mark "duplicate," and endorse thereon his name, and the date and hour and fact of filing in his office of the original. He shall, at the time of filing the duplicate notice with the original, collect, in addition to his own fee, the sum of seventy-five cents, which shall be the fee for the county recorder for recording such duplicate. He shall immediately deposit the duplicate copy with the county recorder of the county in which the greater part of the said mining district is located for record, or forward the same to him by mail or express, or in such other manner as will insure safe transit and delivery. The fee of seventy-five cents shall accompany the duplicate. The county recorder shall record said duplicate with the endorsements thereon for said fee. The record of said duplicate notice in the office of the county recorder shall be considered an original record. Every person neglecting or refusing to comply with any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Amended by act of 1909 post.) Sec. 10. (Copies of notices to be received as evidence). Copies of notices of location of mining claims, mill sites and tunnel sites, heretofore recorded in the records of the several mining districts, and copies of the mining rules. and regulations in force in the several mining districts, in like manner recorded, heretofore duly certified by the mining recorder, shall be receivable in all tribunals and before all officers of this state as prima facie evidence. Sec. 11. Where books, records and documents pertaining to the office of district mining recorder have been or shall hereafter be deposited in the office of any county recorder of this state, such county recorder is authorized to make and certify copies therefrom, and such certified copies shall be receivable in all tribunals and before all officers of this state in the same manner and to the same effect as if such records had been originally filed or made in the office of the county recorder. Sec. 12. (County Recorder to Record Rules. Certified Copies.) It shall be the duty of each county recorder to record the mining rules and regulations of the several mining districts in his county without fee, and certified copies of such records shall be received in all tribunals and before all officers of this state as prima facie evidence of such rules and regulations, and it shall be his duty to record, index and abstract all mining location notices presented for record, for a fee not to exceed seventy-five cents for each notice and to file and index all affidavits of labor presented for filing affecting one mining claim for a fee not to exceed twenty-five cents; PROVIDED, that when an affidavit of labor contains the name of more than one mining claim, an additional fee of ten cents shall be charged for each additional claim named therein. Sec. 13. (Recorder of Mining District to give Bond.) The recorder of each mining district shall take the oath of office and give bond with sureties in the penal sum of one thousand dollars. Such bond must be approved by the district judge and filed in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the greater part of the said mining district is located. Where the recorder of any mining district appoints a deputy. the recorder and his bondsmen shall be responsible for the official acts of such deputy. Sec. 14. (District Recorder to make Copies.) It shall be the duty of the recorder of a mining district upon request and |