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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt:...It was fortunate that the flag did not have to be lowered to half-mast. The St. Louis claim was located Sept. 28, 1878, as an extension of the Drumlummon. There is abundant evidence from the location notice, and from other facts, that its side lines were straight, as shown by dotted lines on Fig. 2; but the discovery vein of the St. Louis proved disappointing when opened, and, the 9-Hour location having been made in the meantime by William Robinson, July 26, 1880, on a promising discovery of ore, the St. Louis owners, in surveying then-claim for patent in July, 1881, ran then-lines so as to take in the 9-Hour discovery. When Robinson objected, they made angles in their side lines, leaving out the shaft, but by such a narrow margin (about 10 ft.), that when they applied for patent, he put in an adverse claim. On the 7th of March, 1884, he was induced to withdraw his suit, the St. Louis owners agreeing to convey to him, on the issuance of their patent, a portion of the ground described as follows: "Commencing at a point from which the center of the discovery shaft of the Nine-Hour lode bears south 39 degrees 32 minutes east, said course being at right angles to the boundary line of the St. Louis lode, between corners 2 and 3, fifty feet distant, thence north 50 degrees 28 minutes east on a line parallel to the aforesaid boundary line of the St. Louis lode claim, between corners 2 and 3, 226 feet to a point on the boundary line of the St. Louis lode between corners 1 and 2; thence south 20 degrees 28 minutes west along said boundary between corners 1 and 2, 60.5 feet to corner No. 2 of St. Louis lode; thence 400.31 feet to corner No. 3 of St. Louis lode; thence north 46 degrees 10 minutes west along the line of boundary of St. Louis lode, between corners...