STATE LAND LAWS 143 



MINING LOCATION. SECS. 185-187 



SEC. 185. TUNNEL EQUIVALENT TO SHAFT. 



Any open cut or tunnel having a length of ten feet, which 

 shall cut a lode at the depth of ten feet below the 

 surface, shall hold such lode the same as if a discovery 

 shaft were sunk thereon, and shall be equivalent thereto. (Laws 

 '99, p. 70, sec. 4; sec. 7360 Rem.-Bal. ; 345 sec. 19 Pierce.) 



See sec. 182, ante, and note. 



SEC. 186. NO DISCOVERY SHAFTS WEST OF CASCADES. 



The provision of section 184 relating to discovery shafts, shall 

 not apply to any mining location west of the summit of the 

 Cascade mountains. (Laws '99, p. 71, sec. 9 ; sec. 7366 Rem.- 

 Bal. ; 345 sec. 31 Pierce.) 



Cited: ,54 Wash. 622; 57 Wash. 575. 

 SEC. 187. LOCATION OF PLACER CLAIMS. 



The discoverer of placers or other forms of deposits subject 

 to location and appropriation under mining laws applicable to 

 placers shall locate his claim in the following manner: 



First. He must immediately post in a conspicuous place at 

 the point of discovery thereon, a notice or certificate of location 

 thereof containing (a) the name of the claim; (b) the name 

 of the locator or locators ; (c) the date of discovery and posting 

 of the notice hereinbefore provided for, which shall be considered 

 as the date of the location ; (d) a description of the claim by 

 reference to legal subdivisions of sections, if the location is made 

 in conformity with the public surveys, otherwise, a description 

 with reference to some natural object or permanent monuments 

 as will identify the claim; and where such claim is located by 

 legal subdivisions of the public surveys, such location shall, 

 notwithstanding that fact, be marked by the locator upon the 

 ground the same as other locations. 



Second. Within thirty days from the date of such discovery 

 he must record such notice or certificate of location in the office 

 of the auditor of the county in which such discovery is made, and 

 so distinctly mark his location on the ground that its boundaries 



