114 ALASKA. 



"Sur. No. 37, B," or whatever may be its appropriate numerical designation; 

 the course and distance from a corner of the mill-site to a corner of the lode 

 claim to be invariably given in such plat and field-notes, and a copy of the plat 

 and notice of application for patent must be conspicuously posted upon the mill- 

 site as well as upon the vein or lode for the statutory period of sixty days. In 

 making the entry no separate receipt or certificate need be issued tor the mill- 

 site, but the whole area of both lode and mill-site will be embraced in one entry, 

 the price being five dollars for each acre and fractional part of an acre embraced 

 by such lode and mill-site claim. 



67. In case the owner of a quartz mill or reduction-works is not the owner 

 or claimant of a vein or lode, the law permits him to make application therefor 

 in the same manner prescribed herein for mining claims, and after due notice and 

 proceedings, in the absence of a valid adverse filing, to enter and receive a patent 

 for his mill-site at said price per acre. 



68. In every case there must be satisfactory proof that the land claimed as 

 a mill-site is not mineral in character, which proof may, where the matter is 

 unquestioned, consist of the sworn statement of two or more persons capable 

 from acquaintance with the land to testify understandingly. 



POSSESSORY RIGHT. 



69. With regard to the proofs necessary to establish the possessory rights to 

 a mining claim, section 2332 provides that "where such person or association, 

 they and their grantors, have held and worked their claims for a period equal to 

 the time prescribed by the statute of limitations for mining claims of the State 

 or Territory where the same may be situated, evidence of such possession and 

 working of the claims for such period shall be sufficient to establish a right to a 

 patent thereto under this chapter, in the absence of any adverse claim." 



70. This provision of law will greatly lessen the burden of proof, more 

 especially in the case of old claims located many years since, the records of 

 which, in many cases, have been destroyed by fire, or lost in other ways during 

 the lapse of time, but concerning the possessory right to which all controversy 

 or litigation has long been settled. 



71. When an applicant desires to make his proof of possessory right in accord- 

 ance with this provision of law, he will not be required to produce evidence of 

 location, copies of conveyances, or abstracts of title, as in other cases, but will 

 be required to furnish a duly certified copy of the statute of limitation of mining 

 claims for the State or Territory, together with his sworn statement giving a 

 clear and succinct narration of the facts as to the origin of his title, and likewise 

 as to the continuation of his possession of the mining ground covered by his 

 application ; the area thereof; the nature and extent of the mining that has been 



