...vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, render...

...direction, or along the strike, of the vein. The width varies in the different States ; it is usually 300 feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface. The end lines of the claims must be parallel, but the side lines need not be so. This prevents more...

...one or more persons, may equal, but shall not exceed, 1500 feet in length along the vein or lode; but no location of a mining-claim shall be made until...lode within the limits of the claim located. No claim VOL. xvin.— 56 CO Natural Gas. Coal-Gas. Water-Gas. A til lim Produ< •er-Gas. Bltu. 27.0 H 0.50...

...one or more persons, may equal but shall not exceed one thousand five hundred feet along'the lode. No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the lode at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five...

...valuable deposits mentioned in section 2320 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, may extend to three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein or lode: Provided, That when the locators have set stakes, posts or monuments described in section...

...may equal, but shall not exceed, one thousand five hundred feet in length along the vein or lode; but no location of a mining-claim shall be made until...extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the midd1" of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less...

...first is perhaps the most Important, the net of congress providing 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 testimony of the plaintiffs shows that they did make the discovery, uncovered and disclosed the...

...located after that date should exceed fifteen hundred feet along the vein, and that it -should not. extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface.2 It further provided that no mining regulation should ever limit the width of the location...

...quartz or other rock in place, bearing gold and silver, 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." Rev. Stat. sec. 2320. One of the locators, John Hayes, was examined as a witness, and testified that...

...passage of this section, or within the second clause, relating to location made subsequent thereto — "shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface." Having thus expressed the extent of the surface ground to which the locator may be entitled, it further...