Strang v. Ryan

Mining Claims on Public Lands.—Mining claims on the public lands must be held and worked in accordance with the local mining laws adopted and in force in the mining district where the same are located.

Abandonment of Claim Undeb Mining Laws. — If the local mining laws of a district provide that, on a failure to work and notice a claim as required by the mining laws, the claim shall be consideradas abandoned, a failure to comply with such laws.is an abandonment of the claim, and it is open to location as vacant ground.

Relocation of Mine Lost by Abandonment.—If several, as tenants in common, locate a mining claim on the public lands, and, by a failure to comply with the local mining laws, forfeit the same, it may be relocated by a part of the first locators along with others who were strangers to the first location; and the tenants in common, whose names are left out in the notice of relocation, cease to have any interest in the mine.

Renewal of Location of Mine.—If the mining laws require a renewal of notice of location at stated periods, and a claim has been lost by reason of a failure to make such renewals, and one of the joint locators afterward renews the location, stating that it is a renewal and nota new location, the renewal will inure to the benefit of all the locators.

Reviewing Evidence on Motion fob New Tbial.—A specification in a . statement on a motion for a new trial in a ease tried by the Court where findings of fact have been filed, that a particular finding, naming it, was not justified by the evidence, is sufficient to enable the Gourtto review the evidence so far as it relates to each finding thus pointed out.