Page:Oregon Historical Quarterly volume 23.djvu/200



Article 2

Be it resolved further that all laws in relation to laying aside Gulch, Hill and Bench claims be, and the same hereby are, repealed.

Article 3

On motion the foregoing Laws were made a part of the Mining laws of Coyota Creek passed on the tenth day of August 1867. On motion meeting adjourned.

C. BENSON, President. WM. C. HOLMES.

MINING LAWS STEAMBOAT MINING DISTRICT (Vol. 11, pp. 82-86)

At a miners meeting held Steamboat City, Jackson County Oregon April 30, 1869, M. F. Alcorn was elected President and II. W. Tuttle, secretary.

The following mining laws were adopted.

Art. 1st

This District to be known as the ''Steamboat Mining District" comprises the following territory, to wit: Beginning at the head of the Canon on Carberry Fork of Applegate River about two and one-half (2 l / 2 ) miles below the mouth of Brush Creek including all of said Carberry Fork, and its tributaries from said canon to its head.

Art. 2

A mining claim to comprise one hundred (100) yards In length up and down the stream, flat, or channel. River or creek claim to consist of the present bed, low bars, and low channels, flat or high bar claims (in width) from the high bedrock out of the river or creek to the raising bedrock of the mountain or hill. Gulch claims, the bed, bars, and banks. Hill claims, all the channel or wash.

Art. 3

A person is entitled to three claims by preemption as follows: One (1) in the bed of River or creek, One (1) on a Flat; One (I) in a gulch or hill, as many by purchase as he wishes.

Art. 4

All claim or claims shall be taken up by notices and Recording. There shall be two (2) notices, one for each end of the claim or claims, placed as conspicuous as