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It snows one day and rains the
'next. . •
John Strange was in from Weippe
last Monday. . v ; ^
John T. MaUoy, pe, was
in town Wednesday. ; a. * >a >•'■' ■Mrs. John Lane is 'fisiting '^it|i friends in LeWiston. "
The left handed brigade is about
'to become ri^t again. '
Frank Alvord was in * frqin his placer property-IBaturday.. ,
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Duck Lee Proprietor.
appropriator’may enjoiti the eon- a title sufficient as against all ex- tinuance of such wrong, though the cept the State and those having
work of the upper miner be con- ^ title, ope finding and taking j^sset- ducted carefully, and in the only sionof gold om public land may feasible way of conducting mining recover it from any. on^'takinr it business^y him. In such suit there awdy from him. But where such is no merit in the contention that | party was grading on -public land all the damage to the complainant | for a mill site, but had not compHcd
was caused by the construction of with any of the provisions of the their own dam across the stream.' Revised Statutes of – the United which prevented the mining debris | States, ^ection 2337, for; acquiring from above going down through title to same, he was not occupant their claim to another creek, since q| land beyond, the level space
had notory to making a tnorougn average of the com^ain- – ^ ^ ^
out for this* purpose. The Dewey is located in the vicinity of the Wild Rose and those acquainted with the property claim the ore to
be of the same character as of the Wild Rose, and assays from it show that it car^ie^ ore that -is equally as rich. . '
Recent _ Dec I sJ on s
Affectl ng MI n I ng Industry..
From the E. & M. Journal.
Where a valid location of a min­ing claim has been made, and work done thereon in good faith, posses­sion maintained, and no iptention to abandon is shown, the law should be liberally construed to-prcvent a iorfiture. And where a local regu­lation required a notice of a min­ing claim to be posted at each end of' same, and notice was posted only At one end, all other regulations being complied.with, the failure to post at both ends will not work a fdrfiture, in the absence of a rule so providing.—Supreme Court of Cali-
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to'start a solo class. Full instruc-
Where an upper and subsequent
^propriator^. of water for rriining purposes on a streana-makes use ^of the natural channel to carry off his
mining debris to the damage of tbe
lower apd-prior apprpRriator, such
to 'divert all the water of the stream. —^prome .CoOTt of Oregon.
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Under the laws of the ^United
States (Revised Statutes United States, -Section 2319); ^ifrovidin
that all valiiiible mineTaJ deposits
in lands: belonging -to the United
States.'are free, ahd the Civil 'Code
of jCalifornia, , Section”' 1006,3that
occupancy for any period donfeis a
COST ‘OFMEERSCHAUM. right
to golcL found by others be- •
yond the limits of such space. Unjjier Revised Statutes of the
The location of a lode- mining' United States, se^on 2319, title to claim having the righ^ to lay any .mineral lands can not be acquired
of his lines within or across the sur- occupancy unless the occupancy face of a valW prior iMation, in theabsence of objection bi its owner,' a,* •for the purpose pf.securing to Mm- i'“'’at.ng and extracting the miner-self underground^-or..cxtralaterla ^ als.—Supreme Court of Californuy
rights not in conflict with the rights of the senior location, where a junior claim overlaps, having one of its parallel end lines within or across a'cenior location, the owner acquires all the rights, both surface and .ex­tralateral, as against the govern­ment arid subsequent locators, that
he could have if the prior location had not been made; and he may follow-the vein in its downward
course between the planes of his own lend lines in all respects as though there Were no prior location, except where it would conflict with the rights of the' owner of such prior location.—'United States Xfir- cutCourtofAppeals.;
i« IsyioC la tb« Raw Mb. Bb« la the Btaktav o< the Plpea. The Bxveai ' terlalI A fire in a pipe-maker’s shop the vbtber day spoiled the proprietor’s stock of meerschaum, and incidentally disposed of the idea, common in most ' smokers’ minds, that this commodity is very expensive. Meerschaum Itself ’.is not- expensive. That used by the manufacturers in this country is im­ported as r^ material from Austria, but most of it is obtained in Asia ' Minor, Usually there are three or four different grades, running from the. rough und mixe