...discovered therein. The first section of the act was general in its application, and applied alike to veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, or copper, and to placer or gravel mines. The license to explore, enter, occupy, and mine was general;...

...discovered therein. The first section of the act was general in its application, and applied equally to veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar or copper, and to placer or gravel mines. So, too, the right or license to explore and occupy for mining...

...laws of the United States. 14 St. c. 262, § 1. It then provided for acquiring by patent the title to "veins or lodes of quartz, or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, or copper." On the ninth of July, 1870, this act was amended so as to make placer claims, including...

...United States. 14 Stat. 251, ch. 262, § 1. It then provided for acquiring by patent the title to " veins or lodes of quartz, or other rock, in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, or copper." On the 9th of July, 1870, this act was amended so as to make placer claims, including all...

...United States. 14 Stat. 251, ch, 262, § 1. It then provided for acquiring by patent the title to '- veins or lodes of quartz, or other rock, in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, or copper." On the 9th of July, 1870, this act was amended so as to make placer claims, including all...

...certain knotty point, that " mining law was just what any three miners may agree upon." Boundaries. Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place (that is, such rock as " lies in a fixed position in the general mass of country rock " as distinguished...

...except as otherwise expressly directed by law." Section 2319 provides that Section 2328 provides that Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other...cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits .... shall be governed .... by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location....

...That section (which was Section 2 of the Act of 1872) is as follows: " SECTION 2320. Mining-claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place,...silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper or other valuable de(x>sits, heretofore located, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs,...

...and purchase, .... under regulations prescribed by law. Section 2328 provides that Mining claims npon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place, bearing...cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits .... sball be governed .... by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location....

...silver, cinnabar or copper.1 The language of the act of 1872, as contained in the Revised Statutes is "veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing...silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper or other valuable deposits."2 The certificates of location are presumptive evidence of continuous vein; but if it should...