Sexton v. Washington Mining & Milling Co.

Citations

• 55 Wash. 380
• 104 P. 614
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 766

Syllabus

<p>Mines and Minerals — Claims—Assessment Work — Road Building — Statutes. Laws 1899, p. 73, § 14, providing that road work may apply on assessment work on mining claims, when authorized by a public meeting of at least twelve property holders called by the mining recorder, applies only to organized mining districts.</p> <p>Same- — Roads Outside Claim — Unorganized Districts. The building and construction of roads intended to be used in the general development of mining property in an unorganized mining district, although done outside the boundaries of a claim, is the doing of assessment work on the claim, within the meaning of the mining law.</p>