INDEX

First number indicates chapter. Second number indicates section of that chapter.

Accuracy (survey): 5–2, 5–5, 5–13

Acquired Lands: 1–25

Act of 1866 (lodes): 1–5

Act of 1870 (placers): 1–6

Act of 1872 (general mining laws): 1–7

Act of 1884 (Alaska): 1–9

Act of 1892 (building stone): 1–10

Act of 1904 (monuments to control): 1–13

Act of 1920 (mineral leasing): 1–14

Act of 1947 (materials): 1–15

Act of 1954 (multiple use): 1–16

Act of 1955 (common varieties): 1–17

Act of 1955 (power sites): 1–18

Act of 1960 (mill sites): 1–19

Act of 1962 (petrified wood): 1–20

Act of 1970 (geothermal steam): 1–21

Act of 1976 (recordation): 1–22

Additional and Amended Location Certificate: 2–13, 4–6

Additional Notes and Certificate on Plat: 5–18

Alaska: 1–9, 1–23, 1–24

Alaska Native Claims: 1–23

Alaska Public Sale Act: 1–24

Amended Location: 2–13, 5–1, 5–3, 5–20

Amended (Supplemental) Order for Survey: 4–6, 4–7, 5–3, 5–21

Amended Survey: 5–19

Annual Assessment Work: 2–4, 2–12

Apex Law: 1–49

Application for Patent: 2–6

Application for Survey: 4–4

Approval of Survey: 5–15

Areas: 5–8, 5–10, 5–12, 5–13

Areas subject to special mining laws: 1–24

Assays: 2–1

Attorney-at-Law: 1–43, 4–3

Azimuth: 5–10

Bearing rocks: 5–4

Bearing trees: 5–4, 5–10

Bedded deposits: 1–48, 2–1, 5–3, 5–5

Blanket veins: 5–3, 5–5

Building stone: 1–10

Burden of proof: 2–1, 2–12

Calculations: 5–8, 5–13

Cancelled Survey: 4–6, 5–16

Cancelled Survey Order: 4–6, 4–8, 5–17

Cemeteries: 5–3

Change of claim boundaries: 2–13

Claim records: 4–5, 5–1

Claim staking: 2–3

Closures: 5–13

78Coal Surveys: 5–3

Common Improvement: 1–47, 5–5

Common Varieties: 1–17

Conflicts: 5–3, 5–8, 5–12, 5–13

Coordinates Geographic: 5–10, 5–12 Plane: 5–1

Corner accessories: 5–4

Corner markings: 2–3, 5–10

Corner numbers: 2–3

Corners on patented land: 2–3

Corner ties: 2–3, 5–3, 5–8, 5–12

Death Valley National Monument, California: 1–24

Descriptive Report (placer claims): 5–6

Discovery: 1–47, 2–1, 2–4, 5–3

Discovery lost: 2–1

Discovery paint: 2–2, 5–3, 5–12

Discovery shaft: 2–3

Discovery work: 2–2, 2–5, 5–1, 5–5

Drill logs: 2–1

Electronic distance measurement: 5–2

End center monuments: 2–3

End lines: 1–49, 2–3, 5–12

Errors: 5–12, 6–5

Exchanges: 1–23

Extralateral Rights: 1–49

Field Notes: 5–10, 5–11, 5–12, 5–18

Fissionable source material: 1–23

Float: 2–1

Goethermal steam: 1–25

Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska: 1–24

Homestead Entry Surveys: 5–3

Improvements: 5–5, 5–7, 5–10, 5–12, 5–15, 5–21

Indemnity Grants: 1–23

Instruments: 5–2, 5–10

Intersections: 5–8, 5–10, 5–12, 5–13

Junior claim: 1–49

Kings Range National Conservation Area, California: 1–24

Known lodes in placers: 2–4

Leasing Act: 1–14

Length: 2–3, 2–6, 4–6, 5–3, 5–12

Location: 2–3, 2–6, 2–8, 2–9, 5–3, 5–10, 5–12

Location certificate: 2–3, 2–6, 4–6, 5–10

Location monument: 5–3

Location notice: 2–3, 2–6, 2–7

Location survey: 2–3

Lode v. Placer: 2–1

Lode claims: 1–5, 1–7, 2–1, 2–2, 2–3

Lode line: 5–12

Magnetic Declination: 5–12

Marketability: 2–1, 2–4

Materials Act: 1–15

Measurements: 5–2, 5–10

Metes and bounds: 2–3, 4–6

Mill Sites: 1–7, 1–19, 2–7, 2–8, 5–7

Mineral, definition: 2–1

Mineral Examiner: 2–1

Mineral Monuments: 5–3

79Mineral Survey: 2–6

Mineral Surveyor Appointment: 3–1, 3–2, 3–3, 3–4, 3–5, 3–6 Contracts: 3–14, 3–15, 3–16, 3–17, 4–4.7 Duties: 3–10, 3–11, 3–12, 3–13 Examination: 3–9 Qualifications: 3–7, 3–8 Restrictions: 3–18, 3–19, 3–20 Selection of: 4–2

Mining Districts: 1–1, 1–2, 1–3

Mt. McKinley National Park, Alaska: 1–24

Multiple Use: 1–16

National Forests: 1–23, 4–6

National Parks and Monuments: 1–24, 4–6

Native graves: 5–3

Navigable water: 1–50

New legislation, update: 1–25

New survey required: 5–20

Number of claims: 2–3, 2–6, 2–8, 4–4.7

O & C Lands: 1–24

Oil shale placer claims: 1–24

Olympic National Park, Washington: 1–24

Order for Survey: 4–6, 5–17

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona: 1–24

Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona: 1–24

Patent Exclusion of abandoned claim: 5–23 In two parts: 5–24 Long after survey: 5–22

Patent expenditure: 1–47, 5–5, 5–15, 5–21

Patent survey Departures from normal procedure: 5–16 to 5–24 incl. Field work: 5–1 to 5–7 incl. Office work: 5–8 to 5–11 incl. Processing: 5–12 to 5–15 incl. Required: 4–1, 5–6, 5–7

Petrified Wood: 1–20

Placer claims: 1–6, 1–7, 2–4, 2–5, 2–6, 5–6

Placer v. Lode: 2–1

Plats: 5–9, 5–11, 5–14, 5–16, 5–18, 5–19, 6–4

Power Sites: 1–18

Prescott, Arizona Watershed: 1–24

Railroad Grants: 1–23

Recording: 1–7, 1–22, 2–11, 2–12

Reference Monument: 5–4

Relocation: 2–13, 5–20

Reservations: 1–23

Restoration of lost or obliterated corners: 5–3, 6–1

Resurveys: 6–2

Rights-of-way: 5–3

Riparian Rights: 1–50

Rule of approximation: 2–6

School Grants: 1–23

Senior claim: 1–49

Segregation Surveys: 6–3

Severance: 1–23

Side center monuments: 2–3

Size of claims: 2–3, 2–6, 2–7, 4–6

Spanish Land Grants: 1–23

Special Surveys: 5–3

80State mining laws, general: 1–27 Alaska: 1–28 Arizona: 1–29 Arkansas: 1–30 California: 1–31 Colorado: 1–32 Florida: 1–33 Idaho: 1–34 Louisiana: 1–35 Mississippi: 1–36 Montana: 1–37 Nebraska: 1–38 Nevada: 1–39 New Mexico: 1–40 North Dakota: 1–41 Oregon: 1–42 South Dakota: 1–43 Utah: 1–44 Washington: 1–45 Wyoming: 1–46

Stockraising Homesteads: 1–23, 5–3

Supplemental Plat: 5–16, 6–4

Survey methods: 2–3, 5–2

Survey records: 4–5, 5–1

Surveyor and The Law: 1–47, 1–48

Thorium: 1–23

Townsites: 1–23, 5–3

Trace of mineral: 2–1, 2–4

Transit and Tape: 5–2

Tunnel Sites: 2–9, 2–10

U.S. Marshall: 5–1

U.S. Surveys: 5–3

Unapproved survey: 5–17

Underground discovery: 2–1, 2–2

Uranium: 1–23

Use, mill site: 2–8

Valuable mineral deposit: 2–1

Width: 2–3, 2–6, 4–6, 5–3, 5–12

Wilderness Areas: 1–24

Witness Corner: 5–4

Withdrawals: 1–23, 4–5

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.

Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.