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Avalanche Mine
Notice
[not legible] hereby given to all whom it may concern [not legible] John [not legible] and James [not legible] [not legible] [not legible] of the United States over the age of twenty one years having discovered a vein or lode of [not legible] of rock in place bearing Silver & Gold [not legible] the limits of the claim hereby located [not legible] this day under an in accordance with the revised statutes of the United States Chapter Six Title Thirty Two located Fifteen hundred [not legible] feet of this vein or lode [not legible] surface ground six hundred feet in width situated in El Dorado Canyon mining district County of Lincoln State of nevada and known as the Avalanche [not legible] Mining Claim and Standing Fifteen hundred feet from this notice placed in a monument to a similar monument in a westerly direction along the line of this lode [not legible] at the wash monument and [not legible] and [not legible] southerly 300 feet to a monument of [not legible] easterly 1500 feet to a monument thence northerly 600 feet to a monument, thence westerly 1500 feet to a monument thence 300 feet to center monument forming a [not legible] [not legible]
This [not legible] is on the south side of the hill from the Black Jack [not legible] and [not legible] [not legible] to hold and work said claim as provided [not legible] local customs and rules of mining and the Mining Statues of the United States El Dorado Canyon Lincoln County Nevada
John [not legible]
James E. [not legible]
James [not legible] agent
January 3rd 1882
[not legible] at request of [not legible] E. Mack [not legible] 9th A.D. 1882
[not legible] [not legible] [not legible] Recorder [not legible] [not legible] [not legible] [not legible]