...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...

...reading from now ? Mr. MURPHY. From the act. Sections 2319, 2320 : But no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim is located. Mr. BOWDEN. Now, what does the word " lode " mean? Mr. MURPHY. Well, lode is ore in place...

...Section 2320, Rev. St. US [US Comp. St. 1901, p. 1424], said, "No claim shall extend more than 300 feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor," etc. They were obliged to assume that some place on the earth's surface represented the middle of the...

...established and in force at the time and place of the location, may limit the width of the claim to 25 feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface. But such limitation to 25 feet on each side, to be valid, must be by virtue of a rule, regulation,...

...thereon. Section 2320 of the Revised Statutes says that no location of a mining claim shall be made until discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located, and numerous decisions affirm the rule that location can rest only upon actual discovery, and that...

...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...

...a location not exceeding 1,500 feet in length along the course of such vein and not exceeding "300 feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface," that a location thus made discloses end and side lines, tlmt he is required to make the end lines parallel,...