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be stated, and also the area in conflict with each intersecting survey, substantially 
as follows: 
Acres. 
Total area of claim. 10. 50 
Area in conflict with survey No. 302. i- 5 f) 
Area in conflict with survey No. 948. 2. 33 
Area in conflict with Mountain Maid lode mining claim, unsurveyed. 1. 4 s 
It does not follow that because mining surveys are required to exhibit all 
conflicts with prior surveys the areas of conflict are to be excluded. The field- 
notes and plat are made a part of the application for patent, and care should 
be taken that the description does not inadvertently exclude portions intended 
to be retained. It is better that the application for patent should state the 
portions to be excluded in express terms. x 4 survey executed as in the example 
given will enable the applicant for patent to exclude such conflicts as may seem 
desirable. For instance, the conflict with survey No. 302 and with the Moun¬ 
tain Maid lode claim might be excluded and that with survey No. 948 included. 
50. The rights granted to locators under section 2322, Revised Statutes, are 
restricted to such locations on veins, lodes, or ledges as may be “situated on 
the public domain .” In applications for lode claims where the survey conflicts 
with a prior valid lode claim or entry and the ground in conflict is excluded, 
the applicant not only has no right to the excluded ground, but he has no right 
to that portion of any vein or lode the top or apex of which lies within such 
excluded ground, unless his location was prior to May 10, 1872. His right to 
the lode claimed terminates where the lode, in its onward course or strike, 
intersects the exterior boundary of such excluded ground and passes within it. 
51. The end line of his survey should not, therefore, be established beyond 
such intersection, unless it should be necessary so to do for the purpose of includ¬ 
ing ground held and claimed under a location which was made upon public land 
and valid at the time it was made. To include such ground (which may possi¬ 
bly embrace other lodes) the end line of the survey may be established within 
the conflicting survey, but the line must be so run as not to extend any farther 
into the conflicting survey than may be necessary to make such end line parallel 
to the other end line and at the same time embrace the ground so held an 
claimed. The useless practice in such cases of extending both the side lines of 
a survey into the conflicting survey and establishing an end line wholly within it, 
beyond a point necessary under the rule just stated, will be discontinued. 
PLACER CLAIMS. 
- 2 The proceedings to obtain patents for claims usually called placers, 
ncluding all forms of deposit, excepting veins of quartz or other rock in place, 
tre similar to the proceedings prescribed for obtaining patents for vem or lode 
