Tutsagubet Mining District (Utah). Recorder Mining records, 1883-1885.

Federal mining law enacted in 1872 declared that all valuable mineral deposits in the public domain were free and open to exploration and purchase and that the locators of the same were to have exclusive right of possession as long as they complied with the laws of the United States and of the local mining district. The law authorized the democratic organization of local mining districts and charged them to record mining claims and manage mining operations in accordance with Federal law and local needs and customs (Statutes at Large, Treaties, and Proclamations, of the United States of America, vol. XVII, chap. 152. Published by authority of Congress, Boston: Brown, Little and Company). Tutsagubet Mining District Book A contains the minutes of a meeting organizing the Tutsagubet Mining District and the by laws adopted for the same. It contains the mining claims or notices of location recorded by the mining district recorder for the first two years. Each notice of location records thenames of locators, the name of the mining claim, a legal description of the location, and the authorizing signature of the mining district recorder.