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Black Granite Mining Claim
Notice of Location of a Quartz Claim
Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern that we George H. Derby and John HcKerman of El Dorado Mining District citizens of the United States over the age of twenty-one years having discovered a vein or lode of quartz or rock in place bearing gold and silver within the limits of the claim bereby 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 or lode with surface ground six hundred feet in width situated in El Dorado Mining District, County of Lincoln, State of Nevada, and known as the Black Granite Quartz Mining Claim and extending seven hundred and fifty feet northeasterly to a stone monument and seven hundred and fifty feet southwesterly to a stone monument from this notice at the discovery or prospect shaft or monument the exterior boundaries of the claim being distinctly marked by reference to some natural objects or permanent monuments and more particularly described as follows. To wit about one fourth ¼ of one mile in a southwesterly direction from the [not legible] Mine and we intend to hold and work said claim as provided by the local customs and rules of miners and the mining statutes of the United States.
Locaters
George H. Berby
John HcKerman
Date on the ground this 27th Day of January 1882
Recorded Jan. 29th A.D. 1882
at 11 o'clock a.m.
H. Gottfredson
Recorder