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Should be Your First Consideration
YOUR PRINCIPAL IS SAFE
If Deposited With
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“The Bank Of Personal Service ”
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II. W. Aciiison, Ass’t. Cashier
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Meat at Pre WarPrices
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&
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WHO MAY LOCATE
MINING CLAIMS
We are indebted to Henry Ro
den, of Juneau, for a copy of
bis new book “Alaska Mining
Law, Territorial and Federal.” j
This work is of immense value,
to the prospector and small op-]
erator, as it gives a concise ex
planation o» the laws, couched in
such simple language that any
one who reads can understand.
The following is an extract
which definitely states who can
acquire mining ground and
patent same
The mining laws of the Uuited
States provide that all persons
who are citizens of the United
States or who have declared
their intention to become citi
zens (have taken out their first
papers) may enter upon the un
appropriated public lands of the
United States and may explore
occupy and purchase them By
purchase is meant the acquisit
ion of t tie through patent from
the government
It follows, therefor, that all
male and female persons of what
ever age, who are citizens, or
have taken out their first papers
are entitled to enjoy the bene
fits of the mining laws.
Likewise a partnership, com
posed of persons who as indi
viduals are qualified to take
up mining claims, may make
locations in the name and for
the benefit of such partnership,
and the same provisions apply
to associations of persons, each
of whom is qualified, and to cor
poration© organized under the
laws of the United States or of
some state or territory.
It is clear then that a person,
not a citizen or who has not de
clared his intention to become
a citizen, cannot acquire mining
claims by location.
It has been decided by the Su
preme Court of the United
States that, while it is true
that only citizens and those who
have declared their intenton to
become citizens are entitled to
the benefits of the mining laws,
nevertheless, if an alien who
has not secured his first papers
as a matter of fact does go upon
the unappropriated public do
main of the United States and
there pretends to make a loca
tion by complying with all the
requirements of the mining
law (except that he is not a qual
ifieu locator) such a location is
good against all the world ex
cept the United States, and he
cannot be ejected therefrom ex
cept upon a proceeding instituted
for that purpose by tht j.ovein
ment, and such proceeding, so
far as we are informed, has nev
er been commenced by the gov
ernment against any person dis
qualified to locate mining claims.
But such locator can, under
10 circumstances, acquire pat
ent to his land, for in all pat
ent applications the mining claim
mt must prove that he is a citi
zen or has declared his intern
,ion to become one. It is highly
idvisable, however, that an alien
who has made a mining location
should embrace the first oppor
unity to take out his first papers