Oh my Goodness!  What a great story you have here.  Someone should take this and pay you to put it in their magazine. Great job. Mitchel

I followed some claim filings in northern Nevada.  Lode claims had been filed on the land on a certain date.  Several were filed adjacent to each other with adjoining borders.  These load claims were sold and the claim filed by the new owners was a placer claim but it used the date of the load claim as the date of discovery.  Is that a valid transfer? I know of another instance of a claim in southern California where 'partners' were in dispute over an unclaimed parcel and one filed a placer claim and the other filed a lode claim.  They were told by attorneys that if they went to court the judge probably would not consider the type of claim in his decision.  He would weigh heavily the date of the first claim over the date of the second claim, even if within hours.  The parties did not go to court.

Lookin good bro.    Old Tom

I haven't posted anything lately because I've been busy. Now the weather here in Arizona is starting to moderate, it's been fall cleaning time around here. I repaired and repurposed my old garage tent and moved the Bug inside it. It is dry, protected from the sun...and the birds. I pulled the bent front beam off of the car and disassembled and cleaned the good parts for re-use. I had bought a spare beam for 100 bucks and used it as the base for the new beam. Since that gave me two sets of spindles...I decided to make my own raised spindles the Blind Chicken Racing way. If you look at the pics, you can see how that was accomplished. I've also added adjusters to both tubes, which will allow fine tuning of my ride height. I'm reinforcing the shock towers now and adding the big pin stops next. After some black paint, it will soon be ready to bolt back on the car.

You can probably file a placer claim over a lode claim and they'll sure take your money but it won't be valid.