...heretofore made, * * * where no adverse claim exists at the passage of this act, • • • shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of...of such surface lines extended downward vertically" (section 3); that sections 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 of the act of July 26, 1866, be repealed, but that such...

...the "locator of all mining locations" only "the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all surface included within the lines of their locations...such surface lines extended downward vertically," the courts have reached the conclusion that such locators own everything lying perpendicularly under...

...possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their location, and of all veins or lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth, the...such surface lines extended downward vertically." I have been unable to find any language similar to this in any deed or other grant. The supreme court,...

...States, and with the state, territorial, and local regulations, not in conflict therewith, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of...within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, etc.; and, after declaring in section 2324 that a certain amount of labor shall be performed in each...

...act of 1866, and extended the grant to the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment in the locator of all veins, lodes, and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of the surface lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart...

...appears sufficiently clear on its face. There Is no patent or latent ambiguity in It. The locators have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of....included within the lines of their locations'; and the location, by another section, must be distinctly marked on the ground, so that its boundaries can...

...the laws of the United States and local regulations, shall acquire a possessory title and shall have the "exclusive right of possession and enjoyment"...all the surface Included within the lines of their location, etc. Held, that the phrase "exclusive enjoyment," as used in section 2322, means enjoyment...

...to the particular vein or lode so discovered and located in said claim, but to all other minerals, veins, lodes, and ledges, throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of their surface lines extended vertically downwards, to which no right had attached in favor of other...

...ledges throughout their entire depths, the tops or apices of which lie inside the surface lines thereof extended downward vertically, although such Veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart from the perpcndicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side lines of said premises,...

...of all the surface included within (ITOjtb« line* of their locations, and of 'all veins, lodes, ana ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface-lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart...