OHIO.

Chillicothe...

INDIANA.

ILLINOIS.

The Reno Journal thus speaks of the sale Answers to Correspondents.

MISSOURI.

Ironton ...............

ALABAMA.

MISSISSIPPI.

LOUISIANA.

MICHIGAN.

lonia

have performed their labors, and the railroad South Carolina, with a capital of $300,000, will U.S. SURVEYORS-GENERAL. companies are growling. The reduction on soon have a factory at work in Spartanburg Name.

Address. passengers is one cent per mile. Freight rates county.

C. W. Babcock... Lawrence, Kansas. are reduced materially.

THE TERRITORIES.

Dana E. King ....St. Paul, Minnesota. MISSOURI.

TRAVELLERS declare that New Mexico has the Wm P. Dewey ... Yanckton, Dakota. The new St. Louis bridge cost nearly $9,000,- most delicious climate in the world, taking the T. B. Searight.... Denver, Colorado. 000. Its total length is 4,094 feet.

whole year together. ST. JOSEPH is taking the initiatory steps to A GRANGE has been organized at Mt. Idaho, James T. Stratton.San Francisco, Californi

La Fayette Carter. Boise City, Idaho. have water introduced into the city.

Nez Perces county. Wm. C. Pearson, Master,
and J. H. Robinson, Secretary.

E. S. Davis....... Virginia City, Nevada, MORE beef is packed in Kansas City, Mo., than in any other city in the United States. DENVER has seventeen brick-yards running in Jas. K. Proudfit.. Santa Fé, New Mexico,

full blast, making over a million per week. They Benj. Simpson.... Eugene City, Oregon, NEBRASKA.

are worth $7 to $8 per thousand. A GRANGE bank is to be opened in Nebraska

Wm. McMicken.. Olympia, Washing'n T City.

The Dayton (W. T.) Woollen Mills have pur- E. E.Cunningham. Plattsmouth, Nebraska A WOOLLEN mill is being talked about at paying an average price of 25 cents a pound.

chased 73,000 pounds of wool so far this season, A. J. Smith ...... Helena, Montana. Tekemah.

SOME Salt Lakers have recently discovered at

Nathan Kimball..Salt Lake City, Utah. LOWELL is anxious to be the Texan cattle mart the mouth of Big Cottonwood cañon a six-foot

John Wasson..... Tucson, Arizona Terri', of the State.

vein of bath brick. A VEIN of lignite coal has been discovered in tages over the imported article, being lighter, O. W. Brewster... New Orleans, Louisian

It possesses great advanJ. W. Gilbert.... Tallahassee, Florida. the Blue, near Crete. whiter, and more durable.

Silas Reed. ... ... Cheyenne, Wyoming T NEVADA.

BENTON is still "the head of navigation” on A GOOD quality of coal has been discovered at the Big Muddy; . The Josephine's successful trip UNITED STATES LAND OFFICES.

-the second of the season-shows that navigaEberhardt, near White Pine, Nevada.

Location, tion on the upper Missouri for five or six months

Register

Receiver. The sum of $335 for the relief of the sufferers in the year is not among the impossibilities.

..... Wm. B, Franklin.... Wm. T. Gilmore. by the flood in Eureka was raised in Austin,

Indianapolis........

........Edmu'd Browning..Granville M.Ballar Nevada, on the 24th. THE

Springfield........... Wm. Prescott........Geo. N. Black. mines of of

Booneville........... Gustave Roiche...... Geo. Ritchey. Reno is the region of the immense salt fields of

Wm. G. Dilts...........Llewellyn Davis. We shall be glad to help any of our subscribers by Springfield...........Wm. J. Teed...........James Dumars. Frank Murphy, capable of producing salt enough answering questions arising under

the various land laws. to supply the whole world with that useful and We want to make this an interesting and valuable fea- Huntsville ...........John M. Cross.........John G. Blackwe indispensable article. This salt is of the very ture. It must be understood that we do not furnish information concerning the progress of any case before the

Montgomery ........ Pelh'm J.Anderson.Peyton Finley. best and finest quality, superior in every respect | General Land Office or the Department.

Mobile ........... ....C. F. Stearns...........James A.Somervil to the best Liverpool.”

Jackson............... Richard C. Kerr.....C. L. O. Cass. C. H. C.-We will publish in our next two OREGON. CHINAMEN are employed in the harvest fields your communication. We shall also have a letters of instructions bearing on the subject of New Orleans........E. W. Hol rook. Julien Neville.

Nachitoches........ Lucius H. Burdick..Alexis E. Lemee. of Lane county.

Monroe ............ long article on the rights of settlers upon un

F. W. Barrington....James S. Ray. Work on the Southern Oregon wagon-road surveyed land. The ruling you mention is not Detroit ...............Frederick Morley...John M. Farland. is progressing in earnest. sufficiently explicit to warrant its publication.

East Saginaw....... Wm. R. Bates......... Albert A. Day, 0. K. P. c.-The time within which a person Marquette ........

............James H. Kidd......James L. Jenning A SALEM establishment expects to turn out

.Ambrose Campbell..James M.Wilkinso 200,000 grain bags before the 1st of November, could claim the benefits of the donation acts Traverse City...... Seth C. Motsat.........Perry Hannah. IN Coos county there are three large steam saw- expired by limitation Dec. 1, 1855.

Much

Little Rock........Geo. W. Denison.....Henry M. Cooper. mills running night and day, with the largest cas obliged for your interest in our behalf.

Camden..............N. N. Rawlings....... David C. Tuttle.

J. T. M. -The mining laws do not limit the Harrison..............Samuel Dia!..........J00. A. Torrence, pacity. number of locations one person may make in a

Dardanelle...........R. F. Naylor

Morritz M. Freed. Last Saturday night closed the largest week's mining district. A locator has one year from Gainesville........Josiah A. Lee.......S. F. Halliday. work ever done in the penitentiary brick-yard; date of location within which to expend the 195,000 brick were moulded and set in the kiln. money and make the improvements required by Sious city.he..Geo. H. Wright.... Wm. R. Smith.

Fort Des MoinesFelix G.

G. L. Godfrey WISCONSIN.

the act of May 10, 1872, and no one has a right A NUMBER of mills at Muskegon have ceased to disturb him before the expiration of the year, Helena...............Win. C. Childs........Solomon Starr. so far as the United States law is concerned.

Edw'd W. Willet.....J. V. Bogert. work, owing to the scarcity of logs.

C. C. C.-There is no objection to a settler Prescott...............Wm. N. Kelley........Geo. Loung, Bears are unusually plenty along the line of leaving his homestead as often as he pleases to Florence..........Levi Kuggles.com... Martin L. Stiles. the Wisconsin Central road, north of Stevens'

go elsewhere to earn money for the purpose of Point. applying it to the cultivation and improvement

Salt Lake City ....Willet Pottinger.....Giles B. Overton. ABOUT two miles of the narrow.gauge railway of his homestead, provided he is not absent Menasha..............Joseph Keyes.........Norman Thatcher. have been graded near Wauzeka.

Men are at more than six months at a time. He should be Falls of St. Croix. Michael Field.........Joel F. Nason. work all along the line in the Kickapoo Valley. careful to have witnesses to his returns in case

Wausau ...............Stephen H. Alban...D. L. Qoaw. FIFTY thousand acres of land were sown this he is called upon to defend himself.

La Crosse ............ Geo. A. Metzgar...... Sam'ı . Burton.

Bayfield...............Jno. H. Knight....... Isaac H. Wing year to wheat in Waukesha county. The aver. A. T. B.-It is not competent for a married Eau Claire............Joseph E. Irish ......James M. Bracketi age will be at least twelve bushels per acre. Of woman living with her husband to make an en

San Francisco...... Henry G, Rolling....C. H. Chamberlin. corn there are 20,000 acres.

try under the timber-culture act. Residence on
land entered as a timber claim is not required.

Sacramento.........T. B. McFarland..... Hart Fellows.
THE SOUTH.

Marysville ........... Leonard B. Ayer..... Eli Teegarden. T. J. H.-There is no land in Texas belonging Sumbride.no. R. Lockwood... Andrew Miller.

Humboldt............Chas. F. Roberts..... Solomon Cooper. KEY WEST receives an average monthly em-to the United States subject to sale. Address Stockton............Melville Cottle........Otis Perrin, igration from Cuba and the Bahamas of 240, or the Commissioner of Lands at Austin, Texas, for Los Angeles.......Alfred James.com, w. Haverstions 2,880 yearly.

information concerning the State lands, of which Visalia.................G. A. Bottsford........Moses C. Andross. One of the best paying industries of the South thousands of acres are for sale on very moder- Independence ....Ged. H. MeCallum. Thomas May.

.........Aaron Bell...............Chas. McDonald. is the manufacture of artificial ice, a branch of ate terms. trade which is rapidly extending throughout all J. M. --The planting of puts instead of trees, Carrera Cit

...dough. Horec...Jeffersor in her ko

Carson ........ Adolphus Waitz......C. Wright the great cities of that section of the country.

provided the seedlings are afterwards properly Fiorehe...CFosteror.J. W. Wright GALVESTON News, 4th: “The United States cultivated and protected, is considered as com

Elko...................John S. Mayhugh.... Wm. M. Stafford. dredging machine is to be put to work on the plying with the requirements of the timber-cul

Taylor's Falls.......John P. Owens........ Oscar Roos. Government 'cut' through Redfish bar, for ture act.

st. Cloud.............J. v. Brower............Ole Peterson, which an additional appropriation was made by

Alexandria .........L. K. Aaker.........J. H. Van Dyke: the last Congress. After the work at Redfish is A CELEBRATED barrister was in the habit of Worthington..... Mons Griniger.James B. Wakefield completed we understand the machine will be saying, “I always study the feesibility of a case

New Ulm.............Chas. B. Tyler......... A. A. Brown. put work on the bar at the mouth of Cedar before I undertake it."

Du Luth.............. Wm. H. Fellers....... Lewis Lewiston: bayou, at the head of Galveston bay."

A CALIFORNIA poet has bought a mule, and a A NEW cotton factory, with a capital of $100,- brother poet chronicles it as a remarkable in

Redwood Falls.... Benj. F. Smith..... Wm. H. Kelly.

OREGON, 000, running 50 cards and 3,000 spindles, for stance of self-possession.

Oregon City Owen Wade... ........ cotton

Roseburg

W. R. Willis...... .....Jas. Č. Fullerton. in Greenfield, South Carolina. The Piedmont neal incompatibilities, as a specialty, delicately Linkville.cc...W.J. Small pacu...George Conn.

: Grand

.John H. Stephens...Dan '1 Chaplin. cotton factory, just below Greenville, is doing adjusted. 'Tis slavery to detain the hand after well. The English manufacturing company of the heart has fled.”

Topeka...........
Salipa...................

ARKANSAS.

IOWA.

MONTANA TERRITORY.

Bozeman ...............

ARIZONA TERRITORY.

UTAH TERRITORY.

WISCONSIN.

CALIFORNIA,

GEORGE W. CONN,

COPP'S

Citr, Se Norfolk

U. S. Mining Decisions,

-GENERLA KANSASContinued.
Lacrtion, Register.

Receiver.
ce, Kane Coneordia.......
Independence....W.W. Martin..........Henry M. Waters.

B. H. McEckron..... Evan J. Jenkins.
Wichita...

Wm. S. Jenkins......Josiah C. Redfield.
Cawker City.........A.A. Thomas...........J. M. Hodge.
on, Dalan Bays
City..

Joo. H. Edwards.....John C. Carpenter.
Larned. Chs. A. Morris........ Eli Gilbert.

WASHINGTON TERRITORY. äity, Idain Olympisc...Josiah T. Brown.....Rob't G. Stuart.

Vaneouver...... Jno. C. Hileman...... Sam'l H. Brown. ancisco , let Walla Walla..... Wm. Stepheng.........John F. Boyer.

NEBRASKA.

Frank Welch..........John 8. McClary. E, Nad Beatrice... Hiram W. Parker.... Nathan Blakely.

Lincoln... ...Silas Garber............. Geo. P. Tucker. City, the Dakota City:

Geo. W. Wilkinson..James Stott. , Wan .

Grand Island....... Edwd W. Arnold....Joseph Fox, buth, Bloomington....... Chas. H. Walker..... Evan Worthing.

NEW MEXICO TERRITORY. Montant Santa Fe.....Jos. D. Sena........... Abram G. Hoyt. e City , Ls Mesilla..........A.C. Hawley..........Jesus Armijo.

DAKOTA TERRITORY. drizon 1 Springfield.

.Luman N. Judd......L. D. F. Poore. see, Fitsous Falls......B.E. Campbel......John M. Washburn. Fargo......

JordanThos. 2105, 1Tsakton ......... ...Geo. H. Hand.........Lott S. Bayless. Bismarck............

Peter Mawtor ........ Edward N. Brown. , Wien

COLORADO TERRITORY.
Pueblo...... .Keyes Danforth......James L. Mitchell.
OMTILE

Central City.........Jos, M. Marshall..... E. W. Hendersop.
Denver City. ........ Herman Silver........Amos Steck.
Fair Play..........Jno. L. Sheridan...... Rob't B. Chappel.
Del Norte ........J. D. Howard...........Chas. A. Braslow.

IDAHO TERRITORY.
Boise City.......... Wm. P. Thompson..James Stout.

Seth 8. Slater... R. J. Monroe.

WYOMING TERRITORY.
Cheyenne............Sam'. H. Winsor..... Geo. W. Corey.

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
No. 1219 N street N.W.,

WASHINGTON, D. C.,
Gives special attention to Land Claims, argues Con-
tested Cases, relieves Suspended Entries, and

procures Patents.
L.S. FAWCETT,
ATTORNEY AND NOTARY PUBLIC,

SIOUX CITY, IOWA.
JOHN
OHN B. BLOSS,

LAND ATTORNEY,

attends to all cases under the
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LAND LAWS.

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Price $5, Postage Prepaid.

Can be ordered direct from the publishers, through any respectable newsdealer, or of

HENRY N. COPP,

ARTHUR ST. C. DENVER,

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,

Washington, D. C.

Gert Lewiston..

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Advertisements.

FINE
TINE CARRIAGES.

The following notice is from The Washington Law

Reporter of March 17, 1874, L. A. Luce, Esq., Land

OLD HOUSE OF BREWSTER. JAMES H. MANDEVILLE,

ESTABLISHED 1838.

Editor :
J. B. BREWSTER & CO., 25TH STREET WARE-
COUNSELLOR-AT·LAW,

A NEW LAW BOOK.

ROOMS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Fifth avenue, corner 27th street, New York, We have received an advance copy of a legal References : Matt. H. Carpenter, President U. 8. MANUFACTURERS OF.CARRIAGES OF THE work of interest to all attorneys, especially those Benate; J. H. Mitchell, U. s. Benate; Stephen J.

HIGHEST ORDER AND EXCEL

practising before the Department of the Interior. Field, Justice U. 8. Supreme Court.

LENCE ONLY,

It is published by Messrs. A. L. Bancroft and Co.,
Invite the attention of the public to the stock of San Francisco, and edited by Mr. Henry N. Copp,
MINING ENTRIES AND CONTESTS.

now offering at their warerooms and in process of of the General Land Office.
construction at the factory, including many pat- The work is entitled “Decisions of the Commis-

ented designs and valuable improvements confined sioner of the General Land Office and Secretary of HENRY S. BACK, to this house.

the Interior, under the United States Mining StatGENERAL LAND AGENT, Among the novelties of the season are

utes of July 26, 1866; July 9, 1870; and May 10, SURREYS ON DOUBLE CROSS SPRINGS,

1872, with appendix of circulars and forms." FARGO, DAKOTA, TOP AND NO TOP WAGONS OF ALL WEIGHTS,

It is a careful compilation of the important deDERBYS IN THREE SIZES,

cisions of Commissioners Drummond and Wilson, Will pay taxes in Red River Valley, and make appli- DEMI LANDAUS FOR ONE OR TWO'HORSES.

and Secretaries Delano and Cox, with the opinions cations for Soldiers' Homesteads, &c.

All the fashionable FAMILY CARRIAGES, after the of Assistant Attorney-General W. H. Smith, under REFERENCES: Gov. Horace Austin, Hon. L. K. latest French and English designs.

the experimental lode law of 1866, the placer law of Aaker, Hon. W. A. Newton.

The double cross spring, an entirely new feature; 1870, and the general mining act of May 10, 1872, and confined to this house, has the ease of the full with all the circular instructions issued

under these E.0. F. HASTINGS,

spring,

yet allows the wagon to be hung as low as statutes, and the amendatory laws of February 18,

upon the common one-halt springs, and are highly 1873, and March 1, 1873, together with a valuable ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, endorsed by gentlemen now using them.

series of forms for making the required proof from (Late Oficial Attorney and Land Agent for the State The use of the vertical steel plate in axle-beds, the original location of a mine to the issuance of a of California,)

already well and favorably known throughout the United States patent. 1326 P STREET, WASHINGTON, D. C.

States as the greatest improvement in the running The United States mining laws are the result of Will prosecute Contested Cases before the Courts of wagons offered for many years, is confined by attempting to harmonize the peculiar local rights

this and Departments, get State Lands listed, and

of possession that have become engrafted upon the We call attention to the annexed card of Gene- public domain

since 1849 with the power of the obtain Patents for Agricultural and RAL MCCLELLAN.

General Government to dispose of the same at its Mineral Lands.

“NEW YORK, June 1, 1871.

pleasure. The local laws of miners, as passed by “GENTLEMEN : I have carefully examined your themselves

in their district meetings, or by State or JOHN 8. HAUKE,

Patent Vertical Steel Plate Axle. I find that the territorial legislatures, are recognized by Congress

addition of the Vertical Plate renders the axle in all locations of mines prior to July 26, 1866. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.

about two and a half times as stiff as it would be Since that date, and before May 10, 1872, they are without it.

acknowledged when not in conflict with a few genOffice, Marble Building, 605 Seventh street,

“Very respectfully,

eral provisions. Since May 10, 1872, these local (Lock-Box 145,)

“GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN.”

laws and customs are more restricted, and the ConWASHINGTON, D. C.

gressional requirements are more extensive and ex

NOTICE. Will prosecute all classes of Claims. Special at

acting in their nature. So various are the compliWe desire to remind the public that we are solely cations arising under these local and Congressional tention to Pre-emption, Homestead, Mining, Span- Manufacturers, and not Traders, so called, and are laws that much study is requisite to enable attorleb Grant, and other contested Land' Cases.

“THE OLD HOUSE OF BREWSTER,'

neys to comprehend the status of a mining claim ESTABLISHED IN 1838.

or be of any service to their clients. ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN BANK, Drawings furnished on application.

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intricacies of this complicated subject. His efforts

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ciated, and his work will be found of great assistNew York Agents, J. & W. Seligman & Co., 21

ance to attorneys and all persons interested in the WESTERN LAND OWNER,

purchase of mineral lands in the Western States and

Territories.
Price $1.00, postage prepaid.

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VALENTINE LAND SCRIP—

Issued under act of Congress of April 5, 1872,

W. K. MENDENHALL,

(LATE OF GENeral land office,)
ATTORNEY FOR CLAIMS, &c.

Will give special attention to all matters relating to
the

PUBLIC LANDS BEFORE THE GENERAL LAND
OFFICE AND DEPARTMENT OF THE
INTERIOR.

TWELVE YEARS' OFFICIAL EXPERIENCE.

Office, Room 11 May Building, corner Seventh and
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GEORGE C. BATES, ex-
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J. G. SUTHERLAND, late
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and ex-M. C.
UTHERLAND & BATES,

SU

and Mich. for 8 years. HA

COUNSELLORS-AT-LAW, (Fifth door east of Deseret Bank,) SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. Especial attention given to the examination of "UNOCCUPIED AND UNAPPROPRIATED PUB- Mines and the Certification of Mining Titles.

And locatable upon any

M.R. MARKS,

REAL ESTATE AND LAND AGENT,
LAKE MAITLAND,

ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA.

C. K. GILCHRIST.

ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,

Office, over First National Bank of Utah,
SALT LAKE CITY,

And No. 1325 F street N. W., Washington, D. C.

PHIL. T. PENDLETON,

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ELLSWORTH, KANSAS.

EORGE H. ENGLISH,

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
No. 319 Delaware street,

L.A. LUCE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND GE

SOLICITOR OF CLAIMS,

Makes the prosecution, before the General Land Office and the Department of the Interior, of Mining, Pre-emption, Homestead, Private Land, Swamp Land, and other cases arising under the Public Land LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. Laws, a Specialty. Procures Patents on all classes Will practise in all the Courts in the States of Kansas of Entries under the Public Land System. Prepares Arguments in Contested Land Cases. Office, 926 F street N. W., Washington, D. C. P. O. Box 190.

A. A. HOSMER.

C. D. GILMORE

J. F. STOEK,

A. G. HEYLMUN.
Late Principal Clerk on Private Land Claims, G. L. Office.

HOSMER & CO.,

ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,

WILL PROSECUTE BEFORE THE

General Land Office, Office of Indian Affairs, De- JOSEP

partment of the Interior, and United States Supreme
Court, cases of all kinds arising under laws govern-
ing the Disposal of Public Lands, or the adjustment
of French, Spanish, and Mexican Grants, or other
Private Land Claims, as well as Claims under Indian
Treaties, &c.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

(LATE OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE,) ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,

Post-Office Box 420, Washington, D. C. Attends specially to Contested Land Cases.

N. L. JEFFRIES,

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,

WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER, 1874.

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1874, in the office of the Librarian of Congress.

And on the following Vancouver certifi-

the General Land Office are subject to appeal, no ques.

Secretary of the Interior.

Decisions.

upon to proceed to a Anding and judgment, cordance with the ruling of the Department bring into the executive cognizance the ap- in the New Idria case as to citizenship,

plicant and the adverse claimant, and to this Office revoked the regulations hereNOTICE TO READERS. As all decisions emanating from them applies the rule of proof of citizenship tofore in force, and issued instructions to tion can be considered settled unill passed upon by tbe laid down in the 7th section of the act. the following effect as to the nature of the We publish the important decisions of the Commis.

To admit such an interpretation of the proof of citizenship to be furnished by applisioner of the General Land Office as a matter of news, law as is urged in this case, in even a modi- cunts for mining titles, viz:" then follow unand to put our friends upon their guard.

fied form, would be destructive of rights der five heads the specifications of the proof MINES AND MINERALS. and calamitous beyond measure to the required, and to the applicant and to no one APPLICATION OF B. N. SANFORD et al. For the guarantees of Congressional enact

whole mining industry, so far as it rests on else is it made to apply. PATENT FOR THE Casu LODE CENTRAL

Circular instructions to the register and ments. City, COLORADO, LAND DISTRICT.

receiver, dated Aug. 3, 1871, Sept. 7, 1871,

On general principles the construction March 26, 1872, June 10, 1872, and Aug. 3, In applications for patent under the mining law

proof of citizenship is not required of the ori contended for cannot be maintained. For all have reference to the proof of citizenginal locators or intermediate owners, but of feitures are never implied. Statutory for- ship required in cases of applications for the applicants for patent or adverse claimants feitures are odious; the courts will not en- patents for mining claims, and in no one of only. force them upon mere imputation.

said circulars is it intimated that proof of Naturalization has a retroactive effect, so as to

The chancery rule is that "equity will citizenship in such cases shall extend beyond be deemed a waiver of all liability to forfeiture relieve against a forfeiture, but it never in that of the applicant.

and a confirmation of the alien's former title. E.C.F. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, flicts one.”

It seems to be well established by judiGENERAL LAND OFFICE,

It may be urged that the able and com- cial decision that naturalization has a reWASHINGTON, D, C., Sept. 7, 1874. prehensive opinion of the Hon. W. H. Smith, troactive eliect, so as to be deemed a waiver REGISTER AND RECEIVER,

Assistant Attorney-General, in the New Idria of all liability to forfeiture and a confirmaCentral City, Colorado:

case, (vide report of the Commissioner of the tion of the alien's former title. (Osterman GENTLEMEN : On the 7th Feb., 1873, General Land Office for the year 1871, pp. vs. Baldwin, 6 Wallace, 122 ; Jackson vs. Byron N. Sanford, Christian Holk, and 58, 59, 60,) is confirmatory of the views on Beach, 1 Johnson's Cases, 401.) James W. Robinson filed in your office an the question of citizenship against which I No distinction is made in the mining laws application for patent for fifteen hundred have expressed dissent.

between the rights and privileges of a citilinear feet of the Cash Lode, Gold Hill I have read that opinion with great in- zen and those of a person who has declared mining district, Colorado.

terest and care, and unless I have totally his intention to become a citizen in the The applicants filed proof of occupation misapprehended its scope it is ample au- matter of location, occupation, and approand possession; that the required amount thority for the conclusion I express. priation of mining claims. had been expended upon the claim; that On this subject the opinion begins with In the case under consideration it is an the notices and diagrams had been duly the quotations, in extenso, of the first sec. admitted fact that Christian Holk had deposted upon the claim and in the register's tion of the act of July 26, 1866, to the end clared his intention to become a citizen of office; that the notice had been published that it may appear that under that act, (as the United States in the manner provided in accordance with the terms of the mining is true under the act of May 10, 1872,) to by law prior to the date of said application act; that the applicants are citizens of the use his language, the only parties entitled for patent, and was therefore entitled under United States, with the exception of Chris- to the benefits of this act are citizens of the law to make application for patent, entian Holk, who declared his intention to the United States, and those who have de- ter, and receive a patent for said claim, become a citizen on the 13th day of Dec., clared their intention to become citizens.” upon compliance with the law and instruc1872.

He then declares that as to the case in tions. Objection has been made to the issuance hand there is no proof that the locators or Proof of compliance with the act has been of patent upon said application for the rea- any of them, the subsequent owners or any shown, and patent will issue for said Cash son that Christian Holk, one of the appli- of them, or any of the corporation appli- Lode in the names of Byron N. Sanford, cants and original locators, was an alien cants, ever were citizens.

Christian Holk, and James W. Robinson, at the date of the original location of the The recitation by the honorable Assist- unless the duplicate receipt should be filed mine.

ant Attorney-General, in this clause of his in this Office with the interest of James W. It appears from the abstract of title that opinion, of “the locators” and “the sub- Robinson duly assigned by endorsement on said applicants for patent located said Cash sequent owners,” as well as of the New Idria such duplicate to Corydon W. Sanborn, in Lode on the 13th Aug., 1872, and made claimants, may be urged as an affirmative which event the patent will issue in the record of said location in the county records finding by the Department proper that proof names of Byron N. Sanford, Christian Holk, of Boulder county, Colorado.

of citizenship must extend to each and all and Corydon W. Sanborn. The application for patent was filed Feb. of these classes and persons. Such is not The case will receive final action at an 7, 1873, and the entry made May 15, 1873. the meaning of the language. It is simply early day.

As before stated, Christian Holk filed his and only a declaration, enforced by cir- You will inform all parties in interest declaration to become a citizen of the cumstances and added illustration, that the and acknowledge the receipt hereof. United States in the district court of the applicants had presented no proof of citisecond judicial district, Colorado, after the zenship.

Very respectfully, your obedient serv

ant, date of said location, but prior to the date That this is the correct interpretation is

S. S. BURDETT, Com'r. of said application for patent or entry, to made certain by a reference to the closing wit, Dec, 13, 1872.

paragraph of the fifth subdivision of said Case of T. H. BATES et al. vs. R. C. Since the entry it appears that the said opinion, viz: "I am of the opinion that CHAMBERS et al. ON THE DANIEL WEBJames W. Robinson has conveyed all his the New Idria Mining Company have not

AND HOMESTEAD MINES, SALT interests in said lode to Corydon W. San- shown such citizenship as entitles them to LAKE, UTAH, LAND DISTRICT. born, and that said Christian Holk has died. patent.”

Under the mining law an actual survey must be The attorneys for Messrs. Sanford and The New Idria Mining Company were the

made of the entire adverse claim. An adverse Sanborn insist that the patent should issue applicants in that case.

claimant is not permitted to color a portion of to them for said mine, as Holk never had That this has been heretofore the view

the applicant's survey and treat it as his entire

adverse claim. any title to said premises, having been an of the law and the interpretation given to alien at the time of said location.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, this opinion by this Office will appear by The operative sections of the act of May reference to page 81 of Land Office Report, SIR: I have examined the case of R.C.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 9, 1874. 10, 1872, those sections under which the 1871, where, under the head of Citizen- Chambers et al., applicants for patent of the executive and judicial authorities are called ship of claimants,” it is recited that in ac- Daniel Webster and Homestead mines, in

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