STATE LAND LAWS 

 SECS. 183-184 MINERAL LANDS LOCATION. 



SEC. 183. NOTICE OF LOCATION CONTENTS RECORDING. 



The discoverer of a lode shall within ninety days from the date 

 of discovery, record in the office of the auditior of the county 

 in which such lode is found, a notice containing the name or 

 names of the locators, the date of the location, the number of 

 feet in length claimed on each side of the discovery, the general 

 course of the lode and such a description of the claim or claims 

 located by reference to some natural object or permanent 

 monument as will identify the claim. (Laws '99, p. 69, sec.l ; 

 sec. 7358 Rem.-Bal. ; 345 sec. 15 Pierce.) 



See sec. 182, ante, and note. 



Cited : 56 Wash. 636 ; 57 Wash. 575. 



SEC. 184. MANNER OF LOCATION. 



Before filing such notice for record, the discoverer shall locate 

 his claim by first sinking a discovery shaft upon the lode, to the 

 depth of ten feet from the lowest part of the rim of such shaft 

 at the surface, and shall post at the discovery at the time of 

 discovery a notice containing the name of the lode, the name of 

 the locator or locators, and the date of discovery, and shall mark 

 the surface boundaries of the claim by placing substantial posts 

 or stone monuments bearing the name of the lode and date of 

 location ; one post or monument must appear at each corner 

 of such claim; such posts or monuments must not be less than 

 three feet high ; if posts are used they shall not be less than four 

 inches in diameter and shall be set in the ground in a substantial 

 manner. If any such claim be located on ground that is covered 

 wholly or in part with brush or trees, such brush shall be cut 

 and trees be marked or blazed along the lines of such claim to 

 indicate the location of such lines. (Laws '99, p. 69, sec. 2 ; 

 sec. 7359 Rem.-Bal. ; 345 sec. 17 Pierce.) 



See sec. 182, ante, and note. 



Cited : 45 Wash. 61 ; 57 Wash. 575. 



See 2 Remington's Digest, pp. 1901-1903, sees. 1-12 ; Vol. 4, pp. 709-711, 

 sees. 1-12. 



The location is not required to conform to government subdivisional lines : 

 State ex rel. Pindall v. Ross, 55 Wash. 242. 



A locator who fails to erect monuments defining the boundaries of his 

 claim, assumes the risk of intervening rights of third parties : Protective Min. 

 Co. v. Forest City 91 in. Co., 51 Wash! 643. 



