102 ALASKA. 



15. In addition to the foregoing data, the claimant should state the names of 

 adjoining claims, or, if none adjoin, the relative positions of the nearest claims; 

 should drive a post or erect a monument of stones at each corner of his surface- 

 ground, and at the point of discovery or discovery shaft should fix a post, stake, 

 or board, upon which should be designated the name of the lode, the name or 

 names of the locators, the number of feet claimed, and in which direction from 

 the point of discovery ; it being essential that the location notice filed for record, 

 in addition to the foregoing description should state whether the entire claim 

 of fifteen hundred feet is taken on one side of the point of discovery, or whether 

 it is partly upon one and partly upon the other side thereof, and in the latter 

 case, how many feet are claimed upon each side of such discovery-point. 



16. Within a reasonable time, say twenty days after the location shall have 

 been marked on the ground, or such time as is allowed by the local laws, notice 

 thereof, accurately describing the claim in manner aforesaid, should be filed for 

 record with the proper recorder of the district, who will thereupon issue the 

 usual certificate of location. 



17. In order to hold the possessory right to a location made since May 10, 

 1872, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor must be performed, or 

 improvements made thereon annually until entry shall have been made. Under 

 the provisions of the act of Congress approved January 22, 1880, the first 

 annual expenditure becomes due and must be performed during the calendar 

 year succeeding that in which the location was made. Expenditure made or 

 labor performed prior to the first day of January succeeding the date of loca- 

 tion will not be considered as a part of, or applied upon the first annual expend- 

 iture required by law. Failure to make the expenditure or perform the labor 

 required will subject the claim to relocation by any other party having the 

 necessary qualifications, unless the original locator, his heirs, assigns, or legal 

 representatives have resumed work thereon after such failure and before such 

 relocation. 



18. The expenditures required upon mining-claims mav be made from the 

 surface or in running a tunnel for the development of such claims, the act of 

 February 1 1, 1875, providmg that where a person or company has, or may, run 

 a tunnel for the purpose of developing a lode or lodes owned by said person or 

 company, the money so expended in said tunnel shall be taken and considered 

 as expended on said lode or lodes, and such person or company shall not be 

 required to perform work on the surface of said lode or lodes in order to hold 

 the same. o 



19. The importance of attending to these details in the matter of location, 

 labor, and expenditure will be the more readily perceived when it is understood 

 that a failure to give the subject proper attention may invalidate the claim. 



