Leon Frazier, Provo, Utah, Uranium History Series

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LEON FRAZIER #2 that shows where it tied into a township range and section--you actually tie it down to a corner, then you tie it down with a map on the back, and if you've got a half a dozen claims or a dozen or two dozen claims, you know how each claim lies in respect to each other. Or even make them tie them in with a compass so that you know the direction that the lines run, you see. Boy, this would stop a lot of litigation and you'd get out of this old problem of where are they, even when you find the claim location papers in the courthouse. Now the way it is, you can file a claim location and lots of times you still can't tell where they're at. They're five miles southwest of Millford in the Starr Range. Well, that get to be a broad area, you know. Or two miles west of the junction or road or something like that, you know. There just ought to be more of a tie down in my opinion. But there again, you see, you may penalize the small miner who can't afford to pay $50, or $100, or $150, or $200 to have his claim staked out by a surveyor or something, you see. MH: This is another question in regards to how certain things can legally go contradictory to--like the conflict over the apex or over the extralateral rights regarding a claim. Now this is something that, 34