California.. Oregon. Nevada Idaho Montana Wyoming Utah Colorado Dakota... Total.. Statement of the number of placer mining claims patented, &c.—Continued. California Oregon 107 12, 439. 51 $29,874 00 57 6,789.05 $16,982 00 1,745 50 8 Nevada. 3 Idaho Montana 40 1,970. 15 Wyoming Utah 82.50 95 11, 409. 17 $28,615 50 72 4, 719. 32 $14,142 00 36 4, 266. 55 $11, 005 00 414.18 1,055 00 71.90 50 00 3 182 50 Amount. No. of Acres. No. of placers. Total acres. Total amount. Statement of the number of quartz vein or lode, or other valuable deposit mining claims patented in the several precious metal bearing States and Territories of the public domain from 1867 to June 30, 1880, together with the acreage and amount paid therefor, under the several mining acts of July 26, 1866, July 9, 1870, and May 10, 1872. 1880. Amount. Statement of the number of quartz vein or lode, or other valuable deposit, &c.-Continued. 1870. California 348.15 $1,755 00 13 Oregon. Nevada 44 249. 53 1,295 00 Idaho Montana 5 45.70 Wyoming Utah Colorado New Mexico 1 20.66 105 50 Washington Territory, although having no mining claims patented, contains valuable deposits of the precious metals. REFERENCES HEREUNDER. For lists of patents issued for mining claims from July 26, 1866, to August 1, 1877, see Copp's Hand Book of Mining Law; also, annual reports Commissioner General Land Office, from 1868 to 1879. United States Statutes at Large, vols. 1 to 18. Revised Statutes of the United States, chap. 6; title, "Mineral Lands and Mining Resources." Annual reports General Land Office, 1812-1880. Public Lands, Laws, Instructions, and Opinions, 2 vols., 1838. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1866-1867, 1868, United States Government. J. Ross Browne and James W. Taylor, Commissioners. Mineral Resources west of the Rocky Mountains, annual reports for 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876. Rossiter W. Raymond, United States Commissioner of Mining Statistics. Preliminary Report and Testimony, United States Public Land Commission, Febru ary, 1880. The Land of Gold, Hinton R. Helper. Sights in the Gold Mines, Wood, 1852. Messages of the Presidents of the United States from 1829 to 1874. Reports of the War Department of the United States to 1849, on lease of lead and mineral lands. Reports of the Secretary of the Interior, 1849 to 1880. Message of the President of the United States, January 24, 1850, transmitting information in answer to a resolution of the House of December 31, 1849, on the subject of California and New Mexico. Ex. Doc., House, No. 17, Thirty-first Congress, first session. Reports of Foster & Whitney, D. D. Owen, J. Evans. Lester's Land Laws, Regulations, and Decisions, 2 vols. Copp's Land Laws; Copp's Mining Decisions; Copp's Land Owner; Copp's Handbook of Mining Laws; Henry N. Copp, Washington, D. C. Zabriskie's Land Laws. Rockwell's Spanish and Mexican Laws. Morrison's Mining Digest; Morrison's Mining Rights. Sickels' Mining Decisions, 1880, A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco. Blanchard and Weeks's leading cases in Mines, Minerals, and Mining Water Rights. Weeks on Mineral Lands. Skidmore's Mining Decisions. De Fooz on the Laws of Mines. Yates's Legal Titles to Mining Claims and Water Rights in California. Land Laws in California, Oregon, Texas, &c.; Joseph M. White, 2 vols. FORM OF PATENT FOR PLACER CLAIM. General Land Office, No. 4,458. Mineral certificate No. 448. The United States of America to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas, in pursuance of the provisions of the Revised Statutes of the United States, chapter six, title thirty-two, there has been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States the certificate of the register of the land office at Helena, in the Territory of Montana, whereby it appears that, in pursuance of the said Revised Statutes of the United States, James G. Hammond did, on the ninth day of June, A. D. 1879, enter and pay for certain placer mining premises, being mineral entry number four hundred and forty-eight (448) in the series of said office, embracing the west half of the southeast quarter and the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-three (23), and the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-eight (28), in township ten (10) north, of range four (4) east of the principal meridian, containing one hundred and sixty (160) acres of land, more or less, as shown by the official survey and plat of said township; said placer mining claim or lot of land being situate in the Summit Valley mining district, in the county of Lewis and Clarke, and Territory of Montana, in the district of lands subject to sale at Helena, and commonly known as the "Jennie Placer Mine." Now know ye, that the United States of America, in consideration of the premises and in conformity with said Revised Statutes of the United States, have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant, unto the said James G. Hammond, and to his heirs and assigns, the said placer mining premises above described as the west half of the southeast quarter and the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-three (23), and the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-eight (23), in township ten (10) north, of range four (4) east of the principal meridian. To have and to hold said mining premises, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities and appurtenances of whatsoever nature thereunto belonging, unto the said James G. Hammond, and to his heirs and assigns forever; subject, nevertheless, to the following conditions and stipulations: First. That the grant hereby made is restricted in its exterior limits to the boundaries of the said legal subdivisions, as herein before described, and to any veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, which may hereafter be discovered within said limits, and which are not claimed or known to exist at the date hereof. Second. That should any vein or lode of quartz or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, be claimed or known to exist within the above-described premises at the date hereof, the same is expressly excepted and excluded from these presents. Third. That the premises hereby conveyed may be entered by the proprietor of any vein or lode of quartz or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, for the purpose of extracting and removing the ore from such vein, lode, or deposit, should the same, or any part thereof, be found to penetrate, intersect, pass through, or dip into the mining ground or premises hereby granted. Fourth. That the premises hereby conveyed shall be held subject to any vested and accrued water rights for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, and rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights as may be recognized and acknowledged by the local laws, customs, and decisions of courts. Fifth. That in the absence of necessary legislation by Congress, the legislature of Montana may provide rules for working the mining claim or premises hereby granted, involving easements, drainage, and other necessary means to the complete development thereof. In testimony whereof, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifth. General Land Office No. 4398.-Mineral Certificate No. 419. The United States of America, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas, in pursuance of the provisions of the Revised Statutes of the United States, chapter six, title thirty-two, there have been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States the plat and field notes of survey of the claim of John W. Roe upon the Brooklyn lode, accompanied by the certificate of the register of the land-office at Salt Lake City, in the Territory of Utah, whereby it appears that, in pursuance of the said Revised Statutes of the United States, John W. Roe did, on the thirty-first day of December, A. D. 1879, enter and pay for said mining claim or premises, being mineral entry No. 419, in the series of said office, designated by the Surveyor-General as lot No. 60, embracing a portion of the unsurveyed public domain, in the Ophir Mining District in the county of Tooele and Territory of Utah, in the district of lands subject to sale at Salt Lake City, containing one (1) acre and eighty-four hundredths (f) of an acre of land, more or less, and, according to the returns on file in the General Land Office, bounded, described, and platted as follows, with magnetic variation at sixteen (16) degrees and thirty-five (35) minutes east, to wit: Beginning at corner No. 1, a cottonwood post, four (4) inches in diameter, marked "U. S. L. 60, No. 1"; thence north sixty-five (65) degrees thirty (30) minutes west, fifty (50) feet to centre of southwesterly boundary of the claim, from which discovery bears north twenty-six (26) degrees east, at the distance of four hundred (400) feet, ninety-eight and seven-tenths (985) feet to a point on easterly boundary of lot No. 63, made for the Noyes lode, from which corner No. 1 of lot No. 63 bears south fourteen (14) degrees west at the distance of seventeen and seven-tenths (17) feet, one hundred (100) feet to corner No. 2, a cottonwood post four (4) inches in diameter, in mound of stones, marked "U. S. L. 60, No. 2," from which Ú. S. Mineral Monument No. 6 bears south ten (10) degrees west at the distance of nine hundred and ninetyeight (998) feet; thence from said corner No. 2 north twenty-six (26) degrees east, six (6) feet to a point on easterly boundary of said lot No. 63, from which corner No. 1 of said lot No. 63 bears south fourteen (14) degrees west, at the distance of twenty-three and eight-tenths (23) feet, eight hundred (800) feet to corner No. 3, a cottonwood post four (4) inches in diameter, marked "U. S. L. 60, No. 3"; thence south sixty-five (65) degrees thirty (30) minutes east, one hundred (100) feet to corner No. 4, a cottonwood post four (4) inches in diameter, marked "U. S. L. 60, No. 4"; thence south twenty-six (26) degrees west, eight hundred (800) feet to the place of beginning, containing one (1) acre and eighty-four hundredths (F) of an acre of land more or less, and embracing eight hundred (800) linear feet of the Brooklyn lode, to wit, four hundred (400) linear feet northeasterly and four hundred (400) linear feet southwesterly from discovery on said lode, as represented by yellow shading in the following plat: [Here follows diagram of claim, shaded in yellow.] Now know ye, That the United States of America, in consideration of the premises, and in conformity with the said Revised Statutes of the United States, have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant unto the said John W. Roe and to his heirs and assigns, the said mining premises hereinbefore described as lot No. 60, embracing a portion of the unsurveyed public domain, with the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the land included within the exterior lines of said survey not herein expressly excepted from these presents, and of eight hundred (800) linear feet of the said Brooklyn vein, lode, ledge, or deposit for the length hereinbefore described, throughout its entire depth, although it may enter the land adjoining, and also of all other veins, lodes, ledges, or deposits throughout their entire depth, the tops or apexes of which lie inside the exterior lines of said survey at the surface extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, ledges, or deposits in their |