Author: Canada Dept Of The Interior

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9781230414645

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...shall be subject to the rights of all persons who received entries for claims prior to the issue of such lease. Within three years from the date of the lease the lessee shall have a dredge of sufficient capacity on his leasehold and shall operate the same during forty days of ten hours each in every year after the third year, and furnish satisfactory proof of such operation. A rental of $100 per mile of river leased is charged for the first year, and $10 a mile for each subsequent year. The lessee may obtain permission to cut, free of dues, such timber as may be necessary for the purposes of his mining operations. The lessee is not allowed to interfere with the free navigation of the river, or with the construction of roads, ways, bridges, drains or other public works. The royalty on gold produced from dredging operations is the same as that on gold produced from placer mining claims. Quartz Mining Regulations. Any person eighteen years of age or over, who has discovered mineral in place, may locate a claim not exceeding fifteen hundred feet in length by fifteen hundred feet in width, by marking it with two legal posts, one at each end of the line of the lode or vein, and marking out the line between such posts. Upon each post should be marked the name of the claim, the name of the person locating and the date, also the number of feet lying to the right and to the left of the location line. The claim shall be recorded with the Mining Recorder for the district in which it is situated within fifteen days after the location thereof, if located within ten miles of the Recorder's office; one additional day will be allowed for such record for every additional ten miles or fraction thereof. In the event of a claim being more than one hundred...