Section 45-4-6 - Lode claim--Dimensions--Maximum length--Width, determination by election.
45-4-6. Lode claim--Dimensions--Maximum length--Width, determination by election. The length of any lode claim hereafter located within this state may equal but shall not exceed fifteen hundred feet along the vein or lode.
The width of a lode claim shall be three hundred feet on each side of the center of the vein or lode, provided that any county may, at any general election, determine upon a width less than three hundred feet but not less than twenty-five feet on each side of the vein or lode.
Source: PolC 1877, ch 31, §§ 1, 2; CL 1887, §§ 1997, 1998; SL 1899, ch 115, § 1; RPolC 1903, §§ 2532, 2533; RC 1919, §§ 8726, 8727; SDC 1939, § 42.0102.