LAND PATENT: HARRISON GOODELL AND WILLIAM A. POLKINGHORN, 1892 Lake Co.

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LAND PATENT: HARRISON GOODELL AND WILLIAM A. POLKINGHORN, 1892



Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Patent Book, pp. 305-308

Patent No. 21304/Mineral Certificate No. 3608

BLM Serial #COCOAA 016026

Grantees: Harrison GOODELL

          William A. POLKINGHORN

Legal Description:  Township 10 So. Range 79 West 

                    Sixth Principal Meridian 

                    Portion of Sections 4 and 9

Geographic Name: Lot #7125, Helen Native Silver

                 Leadville, Lake County, Colorado

Acres:    14.6

Issue Date:  21 May 1892





General Land Office                                  Mineral Certificate

No. 21304                                                 No. 3608



                   The United States of America,

          

        To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:



    Whereas, In pursuance of the provisions of the Revised Statues of the United

States, Chapter Six, Title Thirty-two, and legislation supplemental thereto,

there have been deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States the

Plat and Field Notes of survey and the Certificate, No. 3608, of the Register of

the Land Office at Leadville in the State of Colorado, accompanied by other

evidence, whereby it appears that William A. Polkinghorn and Harrison Goodell

did, on the twenty ninth day of December, A.D. 1891, duly enter and pay for that

certain mining claim or premises, known as the Helen and Native Silver lode

mining claims designated by the Surveyor General as Lot No. 7125 embracing a

portion of sections four and nine of township ten south of range seventy nine

west Sixth Principal meridian in the California Mining District, in the County

of Lake and State of Colorado, in the District of Lands subject to sale at

Leadville and bounded, described and platted as follows, with magnetic variation

fourteen degrees and twenty-six minutes east, 

    Beginning for the description of the Helen lode claim at corner No. 1 a mine

post four and five tenths inches square marked 1 + 7125 with mound of stone,

from which the corner common to sections four, five, eight and nine, in township

ten south of range seventy-nine west Sixth Principal meridian, bears north

eighty-nine degrees and fifty-eight minutes west two thousand nine hundred and

twenty-three and ninety-one hundredths feet distant, and corner No. 3 of survey

No. 1491, the Arizona placer claim bears south eight degrees and forty minutes

east, three hundred and thirty-five and eight tenths feet distant ----

   Thence, first course south eighty-one degrees and twenty-three minutes, east

one thousand and sixty feet to corner No. 2 --

   Thence, second course, north eight degrees and forty minutes west three

hundred and fourteen and nineteen hundredths feet to corner No. 3 --

   Thence, third course, north eighty-one degrees and twenty-three minutes west

one thousand and sixty feet to corner No. 4, from which discovery shaft bears

south sixty-two degrees and one minute east four hundred and fifty-two and two

tenths feet distant --

   Thence, fourth course, south eight degrees and forty minutes east, three

hundred and fourteen and nineteen hundredths feet to coerner No. 1, the place of

beginning; the survey of the lode as above described extending one thousand and

sixty feet in length along said Helen vein or lode --

   Beginning for the description of the Native Silver lode claim at corner No. 5

being also corner No. 4 of the said Helen lode claim from which witness corner

being also witness corner to corner No. 4, of the said Helen lode claim, bears

north eight degrees and forty minutes west eight and one tenth feet distant --

   Thence, first course, south eighty-one degrees and twenty three minutes east

one thousand and sixty feet to corner No. 6 --

   Thence, second course, north eight degrees and forty minutes west three

hundred and fourteen and nineteen hundredths feet to corner No. 7. --

   Thence, third course, north eighty one degrees and twenty-three minutes west

one thousand and sixty feet to corner No. 8, from which discovery shaft bears

south sixty-two degrees and thirty-seven minutes east four hundred and sixty-six

and five tenths feet distant --

   Thence, fourth course,  south eight degrees and forty minutes east, three

hundred and fourteen and nineteen hundredths feet to corner No. 5, the place of

beginning; the survey of the lode as above described extending one thousand and

sixty feet in length along said Native Silver vein or lode --

   Said lot No. 7125 containing fourteen acres and sixty hundredths of an acre

of land, more or less --

   

   NOW KNOW YE, That there is therefore hereby GRANTED by the UNITED STATES unto

the said William A. Polkinghorn and Harrison Goodell and to their heirs and

assigns the said mining premises hereinbefore described, and not expressly

excepted from these presents and all that portion of the said Helen and Native

Silver veins, lodes, or ledges and of all other veins, lodes, and ledges,

throughout their entire depth, the tops or apexes of which lie inside of the

surface boundary lines of said granted premises in said Lot No. 7125 extended

downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, or ledges in their downward

course may so far depart from a perpendicular as to extend outside the vertical

side lines of said premises.  Provided, That the right of possession to such

outside parts of said veins, lodes, or ledges shall be confined to such portions

thereof as lie between vertical planes drawn downward through the end lines of

said Lot No. 7125 so continued in their own direction that such planes will

intersect such exterior parts of said veins, lodes, or ledges: And provided

further, That nothing herein contained shall authorize the grantees herein to

enter upon the surface of a claim owned or possessed by another:



   TO HAVE AND TO HOLD said mining premises, together with all the rights,

privileges, immunities, and appurtenances of whasoever nature thereunto

belonging unto the said grantees above named, and to their heirs and assigns

forever; subject nevertheless to the above-mentioned and to the following

conditions and stipulations:

   First, That the premises hereby granted, with the exception of the surface,

may be entered by the proprietor of any other vein, lode, or ledge, the top or

apex of which lies outside of the boundary of said granted premises, should the

same in its dip be found to penetrate, intersect, or extend into said premises,

for the purpose of extracting and removing the ore from such other vein, lode,

or ledge.

   Second, That the premises hereby granted shall be held subject to any vested

and accrued water rights for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other

purposes, and rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such

water rights as may be recognized and acknowledged by the local laws, customs,

and decisions of courts.  And there is reserved from the lands hereby granted, a

right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the

United States.

  Third, That in the absence of necessary legislation by Congress, the

Legislature of Colorado may provide rules for working the mining claim or

premises hereby granted, involving easements, drainage, and other necessary

means to its complete development.



   IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of

America, have caused these letters to be made PATENT, and the SEAL OF THE

GENERAL LAND OFFICE to be hereunto affixed.



             Given under my hand at the City of Washington the twenty-first day

of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and

of the INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES the one hundred and sixteenth.



   L.S.            BY THE PRESIDENT: Benjamin Harrison



                                By   E. Macfarland, Asst. Secretary

                             &   O. P. Roberts, Recorder 

                                          of the General Land Office





(Transcribed by Mary C. Smith from photocopies provided by the Bureau of Land

Management, Colorado State Office, Lakewood, Colorado)



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