In richest Alaska and the gold fields of the Klondike; how they were found ..together with a history of this wonderful land from its discovery to the present day ..and practical information for gold seekers . ach tunnel withinthree thousand feet of the face thereof, which shall bediscovered on such tunnel and which were not previouslyknown to exist, as if the discovery was made from thesurface. If other parties shall, while such tunnel is beingprosecuted with reasonable diligence, locate on the lineof such tunnel, any vein not appearing on the surface,such location shall be invalid. A failure
In richest Alaska and the gold fields of the Klondike; how they were found ..together with a history of this wonderful land from its discovery to the present day ..and practical information for gold seekers . ach tunnel withinthree thousand feet of the face thereof, which shall bediscovered on such tunnel and which were not previouslyknown to exist, as if the discovery was made from thesurface. If other parties shall, while such tunnel is beingprosecuted with reasonable diligence, locate on the lineof such tunnel, any vein not appearing on the surface,such location shall be invalid. A failure for six monthsto prosecute work on the tunnel constitutes an aband-onment of all undiscovered veins on the line thereof. The question of abandonment is principally one ofintention, whether the ground was left by the locatorwithout any intention of returning and making a futureuse of it. Forfeiture means the loss of a previouslyacquired right to mine certain ground, by a failure toperform certain acts or observe certain rules, and differsfrom abandonment in that it involves no question of failure to perform the annual work required by statuteworks a forfeiture of the mining claim, and the same. SUBJECT TO RE-LOCATION. 2 I 7 becomes open to re-location, unless the original locators,heirs, assigns or legal representatives, resume workupon such claim before a re-location has been made. Afailure to comply with local rules or customs works aforfeiture, if the local rules so provide. To suffer tail-ings to run away, without any effort to retain or confinethem, constitutes an abandonment of them. Where the owner of a mining claim has failed to com-ply with the statutory requirements, or the claim is for-feited by reason of non-observance of any local rule orcustom, the same is subject to re-location. Any person may then enter peaceably upon the claimfor the purpose of making a location thereof, unless theoriginal claimant has resumed work thereon. A re-location is made in the
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