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time and opportunity to show by exploration and de- 

 velopment whether valuable mineral deposits exist on 

 the land, and has not done so, his location can not be 

 held to be a valid mining claim. (Appendix, p. 281.) 



Lands can not lawfully be located or title thereto 

 legally acquired by patent under the mining laws for 

 purposes or uses f oreignto mining or the development 

 of mineral. (Appendix, p. 284.) 



The locator of a mining claim has a right to use suf- 

 ficient timberto develop his_daim. Timber, however, 

 can not be^cut from one claim to be used on another of 

 the same group unless its use develops the claim from 

 which it is cut, as well as the one where it is used. .Tim- 

 ber from one group of mining claims can not be used, 

 to develop another noncontiguous and separate group 

 of mining claims, although they are owned in common. 

 A mining claimant has no right_tojcijt H and remove tim- 

 ber_f rom his claim merely for sale or other commercial 

 purpose. 



In examining and reporting upon mining claims, Forest offi- 

 cers should give precedence to supposed invalid locations to 

 which an active claim is being asserted, if the claim injures 

 National Forest interests, or if the location was evidently made 

 to secure control of the land for power purposes or other uses 

 foreign to mining or the development of mineral. If a sufficient 

 description or identification of each location can not otherwise 

 be secured, the necessary information should be secured from 

 the county records. Reports on valid mining locations need not 

 be made until application for patent is filed. No reports are 

 necessary on locations which have been abandoned or of which 

 no use is being made. 



When making an examination and report upon a mining 

 claim, the Forest officer should observe the following provisions : 



