Clark v. Jones

JENCKES, Superior Judge.

On August 1, 1916, the appellants attempted to locate a mining claim, which they designated ‘ ‘ Howard No. 2,” upon the unappropriated public land of the United States in Pima county, Arizona. In December, 1917, the Commissioner of the General Land Department of the United States, upon a report of a mineral inspector of the department that no discovery of mineral had been made upon the claim, commenced an adverse proceeding before the register and receiver of • the local land office at Phoenix, Arizona, to determine the status of the location. A hearing was had in that…