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NEW MINING LAW
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
The new mining law recently pas
sed by the Territorial legislature, Is
an aet to supplement the mining laws
of the United States In Alaska and
to repeal the Roden bill passed In
1913. This piece of legislation Is of
considerable Importance to the resi
dents of the territory and Is herewith
printed In full:
Sestlon 1. Any person qualified un
der the laws of the United States, who
discovers upon the public domain
within the territory of Alaska, a plac
er deposit of gold or other mineral
which is subject to entry and patent
i under the mining laws of the United
States, may locate a mining claim
thereon In the following manner, to
wit:
1st. He shall post, or write upon
the initial post, stake or monument
on the claim a notice of location con
taining:
a. The name and number of the
claim.
b. The name of the locator or lo
cators.
c. The date of discovery and of
posting notice on claim.
d. The number of feet In length
and the width of the claim.
This notice shall be known as the
location notice.
*uu. ne snail uisuncuy mark tne
location on the ground so that Its boun
daries can bo readily traced, by plac
ing at each corner or angle thereof
substantial stakes or posts, not less
than three feet high above the ground
, and three inches in diameter, hewed
pn four sides; or by placing at each
pngle or corner thereof mounds of
earth or rock not less than three feet
high and three feet in diameter and
the stakes, posts or monuments so
used must be marked with the name,
or number of the claim and the des
ignation, by number, of the corner or
angle. The initial stake or monu
'ment, shall be one of the corner
stakes, posts or monuments of the
claim located.
If the claim is located on ground
that is covered wholly or in part with
crush or trees, such brush or trees
shall be cut or blazed along the lines
of such claim, so as to be readily
traced.
If located In an open country, the
boundary lines shall be located by
placing stakes or line monuments so
as to be readily traced from corner
to corner of said claim.
Section 2. Within ninety days af
ter the discovery and posting of the
notice aforesaid, the locator shall re
cord with the recorder of the district
wherein such claim is situated, a cer
tificate of location. Such certificate
| shall contain;
a. The name and number of the
claim.
b. The name of the locator or
locators.
c. The date of discovery and of
posting of location notice.
d. The number of feet In length
and width of claim.
e. it shall set forth the descrip
tion with reference to some
natural object, permanent monu
ment, or well known mining
claim, together with a descrip
tion of the boundaries thereof
so far as applied to the num
bering of stakes or monuments.
A failure to record a certificate of
Inpntmn n nloim a a Vi oenl»» nM/ttrMnd
shall operate as and be deemed aban
donment thereof, and the ground so
located shall be open to relocation;
provided, that if a full compliance with
the preceding provisions of this act
shall have been made before any lo
cation by another, such compliance
shall operate to prevent the abandon
ment or forfeiture of such claim and
save the rights of the original locat
or.
Section 3. No association placer
mining claim shall hereafter be lo
cated In Alaska in excess of forty
acres, and on every individual or as
sociation placer mining claim located
In Alaska after August 1, 1912, and
until patent has been Issued therefor,
! not Icbh than One Hundred ($100.00)
Dollars worth of labor shall be per
formed or improvements made during
each calendar year, including the year
of location, for each and every twen
ty acres or fraction thereof and where
the title of two or more contiguous
placer claims has become vested in
the same person or persons, or cor
poratton, the sold annual assessment
work or improvements may be done
or made at any place or places on
Bald contiguous placer claims, provid
ed; that such work or improvements
Inures to, and is for tbe entire area
of such placer claims. In computing
the value of assessment work or im
provements, the rate of wages paid in
the vicinity for similar work, shall be
allowed.
Section 4. And it is further provid
ed, that a survey of the claim or
claims by a United States Mineral
Surveyor may be credited to annual
assessment work, but in no case shall
the credit for such survey and Its at
tendant expense, exceed the required
assessment for one year on the claim
or claims surveyed. When credit is
sought for such work or Improvement,
the claimant must file in the recorder’s
office in the district in which the
claim is situated the field notes of the
survey, together with a voucher show
ing the cost of such survey, properly
attested by the surveyor, incorporated
Into the proof of annual labor as In
the case of other class of labor or Im
provements. as provided for in Sec
tion Seven (7) of this act.
Section 5. That no individual plac
er mining location hereafter shall be
more than thirteen hundred twenty
(1320) feet In its greatest length; and
no association placer mining claim
hereafter located shall be more than
two thousand six hundred forty (2640)
feet in its greatest length.
Any locntion made containing an ex
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scribed by this act. either In area or
length, may be relocated as to such
excess, but such relocation shall
be made upon that end of the claim
farthest from the initial post or mon
ument.
Section G. That no power of at
torney for the location of placer min
ing claims in Alaska Bhall be valid or
have any force or effect whatsoever,
nor shall any locations made there
under be valid or have any force
or effect unless such power of attor
ney be duly executed and acknowl
edged before an officer duly authorized
to administer oaths and recorded In
the office of the recorder for the dis
trict in which the claim is located,
prior to the date of filing for record of
any location thereunder. And no per
son shall be authorized to act as agent
or attorney for the location of placer
mining claims except under written
power of attorney duly executed and
acknowledged, and no person shall
be. competent to act as agent or at
torney in fact for the location of
placer mining claims for more than
,one individual In any one recording
district during the same calendar
/nonth, in any one Recording district,
pne or both of which locations mny
be included In association claims.
Section 7 In order to hold a claim
or claims after the annual assess
ment work has been done thereon, the
owner of such claim or clatms, or
some other person having knowledge
of the facts, shall make and file an
affidavit of the performance of such
essessment work with the recorder
pf the district in which such claim or
claims is or are located, not later than
ninety (90) days after the cloae of the
calendar year in which such work war
done, or the Improvements made
which affidavit shall set forth the fol
.lowing:
a. The name and number of the
claim and whore situated
b. The number of days wort
and the character and value ol
the improvements made there
on.
c. The date of the performance
of such labor, and the making
of such improvements.
d. The place where such worl
was done and improvement!
made with reference to thi
boundaries of such claim.
e. At whose Instance the worl
i
was done and the Improvement:
I made.
f. The actual amount paid to
! such work and Improvement
and by whom paid, when sue!
work was not done or improvt
rnents made by the owner.
The failure to file for record th
proof of assessment work as herel
provided, shall be deemed an abai
dootnent of the location and the clali
shall be subject to relocation by an
other person, provided, however, that
a compliance with the provisions of
this section before any relocation,
shall operate to save the rights of
the original locator, and further pro
vided, that if said placer claim or
claims have not been relocated by
any other person or persons within
one year after such forfeiture the
last locator, claimant or owner may
return to said forfeited claim or
claims and relocate the same as though
the same had never been located.
8ection 8. Any person who shall
make or subscribe to any affidavit re
quired under this act, knowing the
statements therein contained, or any
of them, to be false In whole or In
part, or without knowing the state
ments therein contained to be true,
shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and
upon conviction thereof shall be pun-1
Islied by Imprisonment In the pent
tentiary not Icsb than one year nor
more than five years. Any person
who shall induce or procure, or shall
aid In inducing or procuring another
to commit perjury, as herein defined,
shall be guilty of subordination of
perjury, and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished as herein provided
for perjury.
Section 9. That any placer mining
claim located or attempted to be lo
cated In violation of the provisions of
min RiKiii uc nun uuu vuki aim
revert to the public domain and may
be located by any qualified locator as
if no such prior attempt had been
made.
LODE CLAIMS.—HOW LOCATED
Section 10. Any person who dis
covers upon the public domain of the
United States, within the Territory
of Alaska, a vein, lode, or ledge of
rock In place, bearing gold, silver,
cinnabar, lead, tin, copper or other
valuable mineral deposit, which Is sub
ject to entry and patent under the
mining laws of the United States,
may, if qualified by the laws of the
United States, locate a lode mining
claim upon such vein, lode or ledge
by defining and marking the discov
ery point and the boundaries or the
claim in the manner hereinafter de
scribed, and by posting a notice of
such location at the point of discov
ery.
NOTICE OF LOCATION.—Contents of
Section 11. The notice of location
posted upon the claim must contain
the following:
First: The name of the lode or
claim.
Second: The name of the locator
or locators.
Third: The number of linear feet
claimed In length along the center
line of the claim, each way from the
point of discovery, with the width on
each Bide of the center line of the
claim at the surface, and the general
course of the vein or lode, as near as
can be determined.
DISCOVERY.—How Defined
8ection 12. The discovery upon
which the location is based must, at
the time of location, be defined upon
the ground by the removal of so much
of the surface material as may be
necessary clearly to expose to view
fhe discovery claimed, and in such a
manner as to perpetuate Its Identity,
and preserve it, so far as practicable
from obliteration; also its locus must
be witnessed by erecting a substan
tial monument or post, bearing the
.notice of location, as near the dis
covery as is practicable.
(To be Continued)
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CANOE PASS PACKING CO.
r 27-10t By P. W. LEE, Supt.
! E. P. MEDLEY
. Attorney and Councellor at ■ aw
Room 1
5 Adama Block CORDOVA. ALASKA
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