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p. 59Mineral Lands The Register of the Land Office at Mineral Point in a letter to the Commission of the General Land Office* says that "among the regulations for the government of the mining country, there was one which required that a mining lot should be two hundred and twenty yards square (ten acres) and bounded by lines requiring due east, west, north, and south. The usual course adopted by persons wishing to try their fortunes in the business of mining was to seek out an unoccupied spot, where they supposed they could find lead and commence digging. If they found ore in sufficient quantities to warrent a continuance of lead they would measure off their ground and fix their stakes, and then continue their works until they traced the discovery to a valuable vein or sheet, or found it to be [delusioned?] In a vast majority of cases the labor expended in these attempts to discover lead ore was entirely lost; and there are instances where men have expended years of labor, and large sums of money, and have never had the good fortune to discover a valuable vein or sheet of [lead] ore; consequently *Dated March 23d. 1838. | p. 59Mineral Lands The Register of the Land Office at Mineral Point in a letter to the Commission of the General Land Office* says that "among the regulations for the government of the mining country, there was one which required that a mining lot should be two hundred and twenty yards square (ten acres) and bounded by lines requiring due east, west, north, and south. The usual course adopted by persons wishing to try their fortunes in the business of mining was to seek out an unoccupied spot, where they supposed they could find lead and commence digging. If they found ore in sufficient quantities to warrent a continuance of lead they would measure off their ground and fix their stakes, and then continue their works until they traced the discovery to a valuable vein or sheet, or found it to be [delusioned?] In a vast majority of cases the labor expended in these attempts to discover lead ore was entirely lost; and there are instances where men have expended years of labor, and large sums of money, and have never had the good fortune to discover a valuable vein or sheet of [lead] ore; consequently *Dated March 23d. 1838. |
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