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[not legible] Mining Claim
Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern that [not legible] the undersigned R. Thompson Resident of El Dorado Canyon Lincoln Co. Nev. Citizen of the United States over the age of twenty-one years having Discovered a vein as Lode of Quarty as Rock in Place Bearing Gold & Silver with in the limits of the claim hereby Located have this Day under and in accordance with the Revised Statutes of the United States Chapter SIx title thirty two Located fifteen hundred (1500) Linear feet of this vein as Lode with surface ground six hundred (600) feet in width Situated in El Dorado Mining District County of Lincoln State of Nevada and known as the [not legible] Quarry Mining, claim and [not legible], seven hundred & fifty (750), feet Easterly to a stone monument and seven hundred & fifty 750 feet westerly to a stone monument from this Notice at the discovery as prospect shaft the extension Boundaries of this claim being distinctly [not legible] by Reference to [not legible] natural object as permanent monument and more particular by Described as follows to [not legible]
About eight hundred and fifty feet in a westerly direction from the [not legible] mountain spring and about 2 ½ mile southerly from the OK mine and situated in above mining District [not legible] and intend to hold and work said claim as provided by the local customs and rules of mines and the [not legible] Statutes of the United States.
R. Thompson
Dated on the ground this 9th Day of April 1881
Discovered april 9th 1881 R. Thompson Locator
Recorded april 9th A.D. 1881
at 10 oclock A.M. in Book H
Page 136 H. [not legible]
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