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 LETON, Sec.

MINING LAWS OF COYOTA [COYOTE] CREEK, OREGON (Vol. 10, pp. 97-99)

Aug. 10, 1867.

Pursuant to call the miners of Coyota Creek met at MacWilliams and Go's cabin to make laws concerning said District Charles Benson in the chair, J. B. Hannum [or Hannam?] Sec. Joseph Moran, Recorder.

Resolved That this district be confined to the portion of Coyota Creek in Jackson Co. and its tributaries.

Article 1st

Creek claims shall be one hundred yards long and from bank to bank.

Article 2nd

Gulch claims shall be one hundred yards long and fifty yards from the center of the gulch on each side.

Article 3d

Bench or fiat claims shall be one hundred yards front and two hundred yards back into the flat.

Article 4th

Hill claims shall be one hundred yards front running back to the center of the hill.

Article 5th

Creek claims shall be represented from the 1st Dec. to the 1st June.

Article 6th

Gulch claims shall be represented from the 1st Dec. to the 1st April.

Article 7

Bench or fiat claims shall be represented from the 1st Dec. to the 1st June.

Article 8

One person can hold' two claims by location provided they are not both of the same class of the above mentioned claims.

Article 9

No person or persons in this Dist. shall sell his or their claims unless they have done work on the same to the amt. of fifty dollars.

Article 10

Any person or persons leaving their claim or claims for the period of ten days, unless in the case of sickness,