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... line of road surveyed and fixed upon for construction . The receipts of the company from 15th April , 1871 - the date of its organization - to the 1st July , 1872 , have been $ 204,392.05 , and the disbursements amount to $ 125,056.87 ...
... line of road surveyed and fixed upon for construction . The receipts of the company from 15th April , 1871 - the date of its organization - to the 1st July , 1872 , have been $ 204,392.05 , and the disbursements amount to $ 125,056.87 ...
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... line in Montana , making a connection there- with of the survey in progress on the Wisdom River line . The survey of the route from the Columbia River to Lake Pend d'Oreille is reported complete . It is also reported that 75 miles of ...
... line in Montana , making a connection there- with of the survey in progress on the Wisdom River line . The survey of the route from the Columbia River to Lake Pend d'Oreille is reported complete . It is also reported that 75 miles of ...
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... lines . Settlers cannot afford to expend the labor of years in improving lands which , when surveyed , may be found ... lines , and one making connection with the Northern Pacific Railroad , and a line connecting the Columbia River with ...
... lines . Settlers cannot afford to expend the labor of years in improving lands which , when surveyed , may be found ... lines , and one making connection with the Northern Pacific Railroad , and a line connecting the Columbia River with ...
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... lines of public surveys in this district during the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1874 , the sum of $ 70,000 is submitted . New Mexico . The sum of $ 10,000 was appropriated by act of Con- gress approved March 3 , 1871 , for continuing ...
... lines of public surveys in this district during the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1874 , the sum of $ 70,000 is submitted . New Mexico . The sum of $ 10,000 was appropriated by act of Con- gress approved March 3 , 1871 , for continuing ...
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... lines , 437 miles of township lines , and 2,390 miles of section lines . The subdivisional surveys , according to the surveyor general's returns , embrace an area of 864,034 acres , making , in the aggregate , 7,441,462 acres surveyed ...
... lines , 437 miles of township lines , and 2,390 miles of section lines . The subdivisional surveys , according to the surveyor general's returns , embrace an area of 864,034 acres , making , in the aggregate , 7,441,462 acres surveyed ...
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Page 58 - All patents granted, or preemption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrue'd water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by this section.
Page 58 - 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; and locations on the line of such tunnel...
Page 58 - Where such person or association, they and their grantors, have held and worked their claims for a period equal to the time prescribed by the statute of limitations for mining claims of the State or Territory where the same may be situated...
Page 56 - 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...
Page 43 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and all veins, lodes, and ledges, throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically...
Page 28 - ... of public lands along the line of any railroad or other public work not otherwise reserved or appropriated, and other lands subject...
Page 58 - placers," including all forms of deposit, excepting veins of quartz or other rock in place, shall be subject to entry and patent, under like circumstances and conditions, and upon similar proceedings, as are provided for vein or lode claims; but where the lands have been previously surveyed by the United States, the entry in its exterior limits shall conform to the legal subdivisions of the public lands.
Page 47 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation 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 48 - Commission or its successors may make regulations, not in conflict with the provisions of this act, governing the location, manner of recording, and amount of work necessary to hold possession of a mining claim, subject to the following requirements: On each claim located after the passage of this act, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars...
Page 52 - The proceedings for obtaining patents for veins or lodes having already been fully given, it will not be necessary to repeat them here, it being thought that careful attention thereto by applicants and the local officers will enable them to act understandingly in the matter, and make such slight modifications in the notice, or otherwise, as may be necessary in view of the different nature of the two classes of claims; placer claims being fixed, however, at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, or...