Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 31U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 |
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... decision of your office dated March 26 , 1901 , declining to accept his relinquishment of all claim to the fractional NW . of Sec . 2 , T. 27 S. , R. 28 E. , M. D. M. , Visalia , California , land district , embraced in his forest ...
... decision of your office dated March 26 , 1901 , declining to accept his relinquishment of all claim to the fractional NW . of Sec . 2 , T. 27 S. , R. 28 E. , M. D. M. , Visalia , California , land district , embraced in his forest ...
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... decision of your office is affirmed . FOREST RESERVE - COAL LANDS — SEC . 3 , ACT OF MARCH 2 , 1899 . BROWN . NORTHERN PACIFIC RY . Co. The Northern Pacific Railway Company is not authorized to select coal lands in lieu of lands ...
... decision of your office is affirmed . FOREST RESERVE - COAL LANDS — SEC . 3 , ACT OF MARCH 2 , 1899 . BROWN . NORTHERN PACIFIC RY . Co. The Northern Pacific Railway Company is not authorized to select coal lands in lieu of lands ...
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... decision of Octo- ber 15 , 1900 , in connection with the corroborated contest affidavit of Bond ( no mention being made therein of Rotermund's similar affidavit ) . It was observed in the decision that the basis for the selection was ...
... decision of Octo- ber 15 , 1900 , in connection with the corroborated contest affidavit of Bond ( no mention being made therein of Rotermund's similar affidavit ) . It was observed in the decision that the basis for the selection was ...
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... decision of July 25 , 1898 , which embraced section 36 of the same township , and its character has not been investigated by this office . The plat of survey does show said section to be situated in the bed of a dry salt lake , but the ...
... decision of July 25 , 1898 , which embraced section 36 of the same township , and its character has not been investigated by this office . The plat of survey does show said section to be situated in the bed of a dry salt lake , but the ...
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... decision of March 18 , 1901 , on review : It has been held by the Department that improvements made outside of the boundaries of a mining claim may be accepted as sufficient if shown to aid in the extraction of mineral therefrom ( 6 ...
... decision of March 18 , 1901 , on review : It has been held by the Department that improvements made outside of the boundaries of a mining claim may be accepted as sufficient if shown to aid in the extraction of mineral therefrom ( 6 ...
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Page 423 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 455 - ... 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 474 - ... 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 seventytwo, render such limitation necessary.
Page 455 - The miners of each mining district may make regulations not in conflict with the laws of the United States, or with the laws of the State or Territory in which the district is situated, governing the location, manner of recording...
Page 465 - That in all patents for lands hereafter taken up under any of the land laws of the United States or on entries or claims validated by this act, west of the one hundredth meridian it shall be expressed that there is reserved from the lands in said patent described a right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States.
Page 468 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows and to furnish a continuous supply of timber...
Page 453 - 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 and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent...
Page 454 - Where a tunnel is run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall have the -right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist, discovered in such tunnel, to the same extent as if discovered from the surface...
Page 421 - reclamation fund," to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semi-arid lands...
Page 454 - ... 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.