Patenting Gold Property via 1872 Mining Laws governing same, is by & large NOT done anymore. However, once upon a time, and as recently as the 70's, people could file claim and then received clear title to a gold property (which requires among other things-PROOF from another person or mining company or some other official document that gold actually exists and has been recovered from same piece of property.)
After doing a series of proscribed work, over a fixed period of time, then said claimant could apply for and RECEIVE the title to said property, free and clear for perpetuity. Usually the cost was $5 per acre, but I'll have to check on all this with the Valentines, as I may be mistaken in some detail specified above. I'll be happy to be corrected about this from my mentor, Roy.
Patented Property owner's are exempt from governemental requirements as to who/what/when/and where one can mine the gold therein, with whom they can do busines in extracting same, and especially freedom from dictation of methods used for extracting same.
As gold historians know, a particularly effecient way of stripping gold in the "olden days" was to train highpressure hose nozzles known as monitors onto a hillside and literally wash gold, dirt and all down into waiting sluiceboxes canted ever downward to facilitate concentration of the precious gold at the bottom of said interlocking wooden troughs/sluice structures.
Most modern patented gold property land holders eschew said practices, which have been outlawed primarily in most locations by various municipalities. Instead, what has replaced that practice has been an era of restitutive land practices developed by miners like Roy, which are too few in number frankly. Most miners on patentend land to this day, are still AFTER the gold by hook or by crook and ignoring replanting of native grasses, trees, coveted havens to indigenous wildlife necessary to continue to find home and hearth in the land now sans its gold.
Patented property is highly coveted both for known and hidden reserves by both individuals and companies, commanding far more than its original $5 per acre price, thanks to 1872 mining laws still "on the books." This is due to the fact that harvesting said gold is outside the pervue of municiple authorities and their absurd whimsical dictates. For example, BLUE BUCKET GOLD DIGGINGS is the ONLY publically accessible goldmining experience on any interstate system criss crossing Oregon regardless of whether one is coming from Nevada, Idaho, California or Washington states allowing drop-in guests access to 24/7 mining experience whenever...yes, even when snow covered, the Valentines are prepared to educate, demonstate and otherwise facilitate the visitor/guest with an authentic mining "off season" experience.
This is a priceless advantage for visibility, for accountability to both visitor and governmental authorities always casting jaundiced eye at any mining operation nowadays, PLUS a priceless opportunity for Roy to show off not only for customers but for generations of miners to come, his "Sweetheart" conservation/restoration practices born out of his genuine love for the land, a trait usually assigned to only ranchers or farmers. This makes him a rare combination businessman and husbandman of the land.
So, owning patented gold property allows harvesting methods, 12 months a year not allowed on the alternative NON-patented, gov't controlled gold bearing properties through either the US Forest Service regulatory system or the Federal Bureau of Land Managemant regulatory system.
For example, in the REST of the state of Oregon (and Washington state is even worse!!!) a prospector cannot even go & set foot into ANY streams, regardless of whether the stream is on THEIR claim or public goldbearning land that HASN'T been filed claim upon looking for gold that is rightfully his/hers, whether they be professional or hobbyist/vacationer, EXCEPT for a 30 day window between July 15 & August 15th.
That onerous restriction on mining what one has "ordinary" claim to, makes seeking and acquiring patented gold property an achieveable and somewhat costly "supreme goal" of all of us who seek to pursue this craft and way of living.
This rendering of goldbearing land to only usable 1 month a year modality instead of whatever access to the gold is dictated by seasonality, goes directly to supply/demand equation of what really affects Price of Gold. This basic access is so far removed from the manipulative Fed Reserve and the Goldman's and Republic's Bullion Banks, oh, and let's not forget the LBMA, those cretins seem like light years away from reality in their POG manipulation.
Hope this address both the "what is a patented gold property" and "what it was/is that earned Roy Valentine of Blue Bucket Fame his 'Old Sweetheart' moniker originally whispered by his admiring peers" in his own native origins of Eastern Oregon.
The fact that Hutch couldn't see the relationship between actual gold mining 1999 into the next millenia experiences which he can neither "long nor short" only goes to Hutch's credibility as a Price of Gold Factors analyst. How sad.
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