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...discovered from the surface." Section 2320 llevised Statutes, provides that "no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located," and declares the width of surface ground which may be embraced by a location. Territorial, and local...

...one thousand five hundred feet in length along the vein or lode; but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located. 2fo claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface,...

...that no such surface rights shall be limited by any mining regulations to any less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the 10th of May, 1372, may render such limitation necessary;...

...existing laws at 85 per acre. Claims cannot exceed 1,500 feet in length along the vein or lode, and 300 feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the snrface, the end lines of the claims to be parallel. No vein or lode claim located after May 10, 1872,...

...and no more. The statute also provides, gentlemen of the jury, that "no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located." So that no rights can be acquired under the statute by a location made before the discovery of a vein...

...had ever been made," etc. It is a question whether the provision that " no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located," 2 would apply so as to require a new discovery of mineral. Certainly all the acts of location must...

...in respect to the discovery, in said section 2320, as follows : " But no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located." There is no mysterious, technical meaning to the word "discovery." " The vein, a term well known and...

...to find a well-defined crevice. And the federal statute declares that no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located. The position of the plaintiff is, that W'alls and Powell, the locators of the Adelaide claim, found...