Wheeler v. Smith

Citations

• 5 Wash. 704
• 32 P. 784
• 1893 Wash. LEXIS 51

Syllabus

<p>PUBLIC LANDS—STONE DEPOSIT —LOCATION AS MINING CLAIM — SCHOOL SECTIONS—WHEN ENTRY VOID.</p> <p>Lands chiefly valuable for stone, and upon which no mineral deposits exist, are not locatable under the acts of congress, either as lode or placer mining claims.</p> <p>Under the act of congress reserving sections sixteen and thirty-six in each township in Washington Territory for the purpose of being applied to its common schools, and the enabling act, making a present grant bf such sections to the state to take efíect as soon as the state should be organized, an entry made upon such school sections subsequent to their survey and to the approval of said enabling act, is void, whether entered under the timber and stone act or under the mining laws.</p>