Shambip Mining District 1894-1897 (Utah). Recorder
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Biography/History Notes
In accordance with federal guidelines, mining districts adopted by-laws to regulate mining activity in the district and elected recorders to keep records of claims. After the discovery of a potential location, Shambip prospectors were allowed thirty days to stake the claim and have it recorded. Also within the first thirty days they were required to complete at least five feet of work on the shaft or five feet on the surface.
Miners in the district elected a recorder for a one year term. Recorders collected $1 for each claim recorded. Even though the miners' minutes indicate that John T. Russell was elected recorder in March 1895, all records for this district were signed by Edward J. Arthur, district recorder.
The recorder appointed deputies to assist him as needed. In 1897 the Utah Legislature enacted a mining law which transferred responsibility for keeping mining records to county recorders. (Laws of Utah, 1897, chapter 36). The mining records of the Shambip District were transferred to the office of the Tooele County recorder.