The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16] Page: 425 of 1,574
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GENERAL LAWS. 415
that the royalties herein provided shall, after the third year of operation
of said mine, equal a minimum of $4.00 per acre for each and every acre
covered by said lease. Said mine shall be kept in continuous operation,
barring strikes, lockouts, fires, floods and other accidents over which the
lessee has no control: provided, further, that said lessee shall not be
required to operate said mine at a time when the market price for 'said
product is such as to cause same to be run at a loss to the lessee.
SEc. 14. Other Minerals. All other minerals and mineral rights that
may be in the lands or waters included in Section 1, of this Act, shall
be subject to prospect and development under the terms and conditions
hereinafter stated.
SEC. 15. A mining claim upon deposits, veins or lodes of quartz or
any other rocks, bearing silver, gold, cinnabar, lead, tin, iron, copper or
any other metallic substance, may equal but shall not exceed 1500 feet
in length and 600 feet in width; such claim may be of unlimited depth,
but shall be bounded by four vertical planes. All claims shall be in the
form of a parallelogram, unless such form is prevented by adjoining
rights, and the locator shall be entitled to the use of all superficial area
bounded by the enclosed lines of the claim and to all minerals therein
upon the terms hereinafter provided. In all conflicts priority of location
shall decide.
SEC. 16. The locator of any mining claim shall post up at the center
of one of the end lines of the claim a written notice stating the name
of the location and of the claim and date of posting and shall describe
the claim by giving the number of feet in length and width and direction
the claim lies in length from the notice, together with the section number,
if known. and the county, and shall place stone or concrete markers
at the four corners not less than three feet high and otherwise describe
the corners so that they can be readily found. The notice shall be posted
in a conspicuous place so that it can be easily seen.
SEC. 17. The locator shall, within three months after the date of
posting the required notices, file with the county clerk of the county
in which the land, or a part of the same, is situated, a copy of the notice
provided for in Section 16 hereof, together with a recording fee of
one dollar ($1), and an affidavit that the locator has performed ten feet
of work in *the shape of tunnels, shaft or open cut on the claim, and
within one year from the date of the posting of the original notice the
locator shall file with the county surveyor of the county in which the
land or a part thereof is situated, an application in writing for the survey
of the claim, giving the name of the claim and such description of its
boundary and location as will enable the surveyor to identify the land.
The affidavit shall be accompanied by a fee of twenty dollars ($20),
unless its tender is waived, and also with an affidavit stating the kind of
the claim; also, the date of the first posting of the notice on the claim
by the applicant, and that the notice has not been post dated or its
date changed. Upon receiving the application and affidavit and fee the
surveyor, shall file the application and affidavit and shall forthwith
proceed to survey the claim. After the field notes are recorded and a,
plot of the survey is made by the surveyor, which shall be within ninety
days, he shall deliver the application and the affidavit, together with
the field notes and plat, to the applicant or his agent, who shall forward
the same within sixty days, to the Commissioner of the General Land
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16], book, 1914; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth10838/m1/425/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .