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Al'PtlCATJo,, to u. I. URVF.Yo~-r,: !11':i At
L'liVJri O' III '1 . 0 CLAilf,
----- . --·. -.--.. ·--- .. -· 'thOllaa c. Ward n, l,eing duly •worn •a.r• that on
the 6th da,y ot April A.~. l88l he lorated a certain
m1n1nr claim kno~~ Al the SilTer King Mine, •ituated
upon ......... aurnyed public landa (.f the Ur:ited States;
that aaid lo, ·ator wae, at the t1me ot locating the eame,
a citizen ot the United State•, i that •aid claim waa
located after the diecovery ot a Tein or lode withir. the
Umite thereof; that sa!d claim ·,··a. distinctly marked
upon the ground so that ite boundari~a can be readily
traced, and that the record of said claim ccntair.a the
name of the locator, the date ot location, and such a
description thereof as •111 identity the claim, and that
aaid Thomae C. Warden 11 now in poeae•a1on ot said m!ne
THOICAS C, WAf.lU:!J
Subsc~ibed and eworn to betor ae thie lat d'Y ot ltarch A,~. 1882,
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lah lt Ult u, "' ot an all&all hlrt,
• • un\&ln1 rlt a rupt11 and abo)Uld ln narro•
•Un p rpeadloular or onr hangln walll Which
are ln plac•• two hun4red re,t or ore ln hel,:i:h\
~h• alntn~ claim llee at an arui:l• tram twenty to
tort7 de~rte1 on the eouthern tac• or a bare rock
Th• aurtace la exceedingly rough with high pillar•
and deep t1aaurea ' ....
The formation la porphyry ot a hard and dry char•
act~r in many place, capped with a Tery hard reddiah
brown lava like rock which haa a cellular and slag like
appearance and when struck it glTea a aound almoat aa
sharp aa iron,
The vein or mineral bearing rock ie apar auch of
it hlRhl7 atalned with iron.
The wall• of the mine are .. 11 defined and at the
loweat depth r~ached ar~ tina and free troa alld•• and
breaka,
The Teln between the wall• 11 traa three te
elp,hteen feet wldo in aoat place,,. aeurina tr .. · l '
to '1rtlv• tt. with about •lcht or ten In • or ••lw..-
or ,ouae
':ht yertloal 41p 11 '.,. ty , ... :ht .,. ,, euu, e,ru.:aJUI~ re UI
aatt•r ln 111111"-
l 11 ,~ re ..
I f ~ t , • •11, fOl&I' a~d a half f••t Wide,
t , a& , • •tn•• 1e,,en,1 tl•• t••' ••••• t•~
,,1 t i al 1'&.~t. tn• • ••~,, t•tt , the other n1net7
L~t a n'.ll'N>r of adltt, eutt, tunnelt an4 pro,
aha!tt at 4lft•r•nt pr\nta on ~h• cla1a, three
~~ndr•t &n4 tltt1 ft•t ot ttreet ear iron trac~ 1ron
care; t~ni ta~l••, alr plp,, ant ••ntllatora; wln4la11e1
ar.4 attacha•r.tt, alr.1nc blackta1th and earpent~r tool,,
1r.!nr t1abera, awning,; ~ump,, roa4t, trailt, board!ng
L"'.d :odf:1:ll houae, aggre~ate Talue four thousand.dollar,
':he ela1m 11 Joined on :he ea,t by t~e Oriental
cla!m w~:e~ 1• :e:ng deTeloped a~d wh!eh p~ese~ts tte
aame gentral !eatu~ea, on t~e Northeast by :r.e Little
!tnL.,Z& -, :.1,::h it &leo 't>eing deTeloped, on the nortt. "t-y
the Cali co ~ueen, · on the northn at , west 1.nd ,o,..thweat
by the ~urning Koacow, F.e4 ~acket, ~ed Cloud, ..._ot~
bei~ c~nteetecl 1!! :he Cc-·.irtt,
On t:.e 1c"..i:l: "t-~· ":!'l~ Oriental Cla1.a lo. 2
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u. s. Dep11ty
Clalm known 1
.Tohn C. !Cing,
G, w. Yager a Locatsd in Gr
County , Stat1
Rangs No. l Et
that aaid Sur
of our knowled
a,,'cl the bound
lna~ructtona •
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I ti• It r.,, I• at• all tllaa lt aa, oonoern
' . r •• a , 1. 1. th , I. 1. IIU• l r . a. w. ht t "u Ui• ot t .. nt1•on• 1 art, ha•ln~ dlacoy•
r•4 a ••ln or l• of q,aarta or rot* ln place bear1n1
llln.ral, •l~hln t~• llmlta ot the claia hereby located
ha•• t~1t d,Y und rand ln accorda~c• with the Reviaed
Statut~• or th• United Stat••, Chapter Sis, Title Thirty
two, located ( lSOO) linear teet ot thia Teln or lode
'1'1 th au,·tace ,:round ( c JO ) feet in wldth . a1 tuated in
Clrape Vine lllning nistriot, County ot San Bernardino,
State ot Cali~o rn!a, mid lcncwn r:.z tlle Si her !'.ing Q.ua.rtz
Klning Claim, and extending l 1200) feet S. ~. to Kon
Ulllen~ marked ( S. E.) end monument and ( 300 feet north
west to no,th west monument from 1hie :io ·. 1.ce at the dis
co·,ery I the exterior· boundariea of thit claim being diet
lnctly marked by reference ~o aome natural obJect or
permanent monument nr.d more particularly described a.e
followa to wit:
Coir:mencing at thia monument and notice and
running ( 1200) teet to ( S. Z. ) aonua nt, ttenc• at
right anglu ( 300) feet to s. z. corn r monua nt, !hence
1500) to S. w. corner monument, thence eoo teet to
( N. W,) corner monument, ~tenet ( 1~00) t et to I. •)
corner conument, thence ( lOO) teet to place of •1lnnt
aituate about alx ~11•• N, E. tr the Plat. •• atatlo
on a high red blu.tf tacin tald Statlo", an .. int
to hold and wort 1a1• elala at pro•1 • y the l•eal
cua~oa:a and rul•• ~t aln~r, and
f, c. WAJU)D
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:11ccT :-~4 Ap:-!l t, 1ee1, T. c. 1ard,n,
Loe ~,d AJ,r!l t, 1881.
Atte1t T. C. ~&rden
A Ml ':!"',t u.d corr,ct cop) cf the or!,::!nal recorded
raat ~:'cl:ck P. ~.
Co. :.eco!"c.er
't:y s. 1£. •&ll
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or Ckli!'Cr!'lia
lit. Diarlo :a
.Dunlap, ~ . ~.
April 188 , t}
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ally~• rn, rn oa~h ~~1n t nd aay: tha~ wear, c1t1ze~
of tte Unlttd St ~ •, nrd ot the State or California,
that •• &l'f' well acquainted dth the 11tuat1on ar.d cl:ar··
&etrr or the Mining Claia kncwn ea the SilTt'r JC1n~ O.uart.:
Kine, claimed L.· .Tohn C. T.ing, et al1, locat,d in Grar,e
Vine Kining Dhtrict, in San Pernardino County, State
ot California, Township No. 10 North, Ran~e No. l ~aat,
)rt. Diablo Base and ~eridian, Surveyed by .Tohn c.
Dunlap, U, s. DeJ1uty lfineral :urvey , r, : in the Month or
April 188
eilnr .
that the same io a lode Claim, containing
that we haTe no financial intcreat in 1aid
Kining Claim; that we are converoant with the working of
Kining Claim•, and that to ~he beat ot our kr.owled~e and
belief, the amount expended on aaid Kining Claim in lahor
and improTemente by the aaid claiaanta or granter, 1•
not leas than two . thousand fiTe hundred dollara.
Said improvement• conaitt or tunncle, ehaft1, care, iron
trackwindlaea,a, roads, minin~ blackn:iith & carpenter
tool•, timbero houses ttc,
GEO, }! • COCIC
.T.Q!1;S ~IJlfTl~·'JTON
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Subacr1Ped ~d • : rn t o before ~o 'hi• third
day ot Kay A.~. 188;.
s. c. 'J'AJ!II
lotary Public,
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--• lil!..1.1:L µ;Jgf. S.: ~I::J •• -J!!J. · 91..£8.ll'H-::ll.:.... -
KAY~. 1681.
At the hou1e ot I. J. Miller 1t wa, re,otYed ~ha\
a IU?".in~ :'11tr1ct be fo1"111ed, when,ui:cin
Kr, a.~. Kc. Cullough •a• called to act
pre11cient er :he 11eet1r.g & teo. Hamil ton, Secretary
"PR1';s~:'r"
A, B. McCUllough, Jacea Read, Geo. P.ar:iilton, Wm. Lewis,
D&Tid Keachats A. T, Cooper, !!. J, Mille:-, Parley
Heap.
It was reer.lYed ~tF..t a ~1n1ns : 1 str:ct be !on:ied
and orgar.ized to be called and kr.own as !r.e Grape Vine
Dis~rict, bounded and deacr!bed P~ follow1 1
Beginning at a point known aa the Cotton Yood
Station, on the KohaTe RiTe:''' tl':.ence runninc an euterly
course to the tork1 ot the roa4, at Hawleya 1tatl~a.
thence runninc a nort~erly couru to a place tnown u
Parad.11e Valley, thence runn1~ .a ••1terly cour1• about
t .. nty !1Te miles to a place tr.own as llacka Ranch,
~e~ce ~c Co~to~ Wood Station, to tt• place ct· be~i~~!r.c
Reached that the Ot!!cf ·r, ct t..":11 l'ht:-!ct con•
~ht ct a Prelident, ~ecr@tary, ar.d :-.eccrdtr, tc 1trn
tor the t•r ot one y•ar
Reao1Tt4, t~at the minlnc La•• o! the U. !tw4
Statva, ~• &4ort•4 en .ettc•,
R 1olY t, tha\ the ~•c~•tar1 t• • 1, ~r• 1
au•tor1&•4 and~ •~r• ~ e ! a'' tt ·• • t~•
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.. u ~t. r •t t lu1 U-.ot ten ._,. an Ula~ tor the
r.t fer rPTl1lon or th• ,,1a .. a netlc• lhall be
t llat.•• ln en oraor ,ap,ra ln ~h• county, t.hlrty
d~e pr-.lnu1 to ••ld • rtlnca and bu1ln111 ahall bo
tranaacted at 1ald .. Ptlna except \hereby preaent at
lea,t two ~hlr41 ,/sot th• 1~,.a1 1oc.tor1 a4optt4,
On 11o~tc,n rf'aoh,d that U 1hall bt the duty ot
the Recorder to ketp a book ot Record and record all
clalaa therf' 1 n ude !n accordance w1 th the requlr'eme nta
ot Cl:apter Six, ~1t1e Thirty-two, ot the ReTiaed Statut~•
and the lAwa, cuatoma and ~,~ulationa ot thia ~ietrict a
and the Recorder ahall receiTe aa compeneation for such
record ~he aurn ot one dollar and a mileage ot twenty fiTe
cent& 01:,, way for each recorded clala to be paid by the
lecator
On aotton of Geo, H111ilton & seconded by Powley
Heap X, 1. Killer was nominated tor Recorder and unanl•
mously elected
On motion the president and Secretary of this
meeting be declared the officers ot the District for.the
term of one year from this date, Adppted,
It waa reaolTed that each locator ahall haTe on
each location anen monumerts, one in the center ot th•
location and three at each end directly in a li~ •1th
each c,~'-·t>r and that each corner aonua:ent ahall haTe a
notice ! ~- it atati ng what corner 1t may be '-"d the n
ot the mine,
It was rf'aol~,d ~hat Soc.Dot Kinin« Statute, or
Uay 10, 18?2, ~e adopted aa tollowa:
That the ainPro ~reach a1nlng Dlatrict aa,y aak9
lawa rule• and reculationa not in contllc\ •ltll the l•
or the United Stat•• or with the lawa of U.. State or
territory in which the Diatr1ct 11 11tuatet -«o,,•rn1nc
lll
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t?:• r. • : ! ~ fl cf th• lccatcra tl'.• d.&h r::! t:.11
1~:a-:~ -= a·d 11.ch a ~tac:-!fticn :! tt• c!&ia or c:a~
:r: • tei 'ty re!'e!"enc• t : •~• :-ati.r&! cbJtct er pe:"ll&.'".~::t
==~-Z! ~t aa r.ll 1d•nt1!7 the cl&!.a one~ cl&ia ~:-
t c~ c!a!a :ccattd &rte:- the p&al&f:t ; ! t~ia a.ct and
·..;:: ':11 a ~&tt::t at.a.:.l h&Te teu: h•~•d t!:.e:-etcr nc: !esa
I :e:-t!!y t!:at t!:.e !"::-!"ti:oia« h a true copy :~
t!:e ':~· lan ct ;;:-ape Vine Ki!:l!'!~ :-:.!t:-:ct. !an !e:-:-&.""i!!::o
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C&lit'crn1a, c!o h"rel
h~reto attached Fie:
Claim kncwr. aa ~te
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claimed by John c. 1
located 1r: G:-ape \'ir
County, 1 n To'lfn:i". iJ,
nard1 no !' as e and li!e:
executed be John c. in ~he m~~th o~ Apr!
Office dated April c
ed, &nd tte neces~ar
and ~hat the aaid :1
cribt'd .. are hereb~ a
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