Excerpt from General Laws of the State of Idaho, Passed at the Seventh Session of the State Legislature

Section 1. All mines and mining claims, both placer and rock in place containing or bearing gold, silver, cop per, lead, coal, or other valuable mineral or metal deposits, after purchase thereof from the United States, shall be taxed at the price paid the United States therefor, unless the surface ground, or some part thereof of said mine or mining claim is used for other than mining pur poses and has a separate and independent value for such other purposes, in which case said surface ground or any part thereof so used for other than mining pur poses shall be taxed at its value for such other purposes, and all machinery used in mining and all property and surface improvements upon mines or mining claims, which have a value separate and independent of such mines or mining claims and the net annual proceeds of all mines and mining claims shall be taxed.

Sec. 2. Every person, corporation or association en gaged in mining upon any quartz vein or lode, or placer. Mining claim containing gold, silver, copper, lead, coal or other precious and valuable minerals or metals or mineral or metal deposits must between the first day of January and the first day of May in each year make out a statement of the net profits derived from the mining of said metals or minerals from each mine or mining claim owned or worked by such person, or from each group of mines or mining claims worked by a common system of develop ment, during the year preceding the lst day of January, such statement must be verified by the oath of such person or superintendent or managing agent of such corporation or association, who must deliver the same to the assessor of the county in which such mines are situated.

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