Towsley Lead Claim, March 11, 1865
From Los Angeles County Miscellaneous Records, Book 1, Pages 200-201
Towsley Lead
-Notice-
To all whom it may concern
Take notice that the undersigned have on this 11th day of March A.D. 1865 taken up four claims of one thousand feet square each on this asphaltum, bitumen, naptha, or petroleum lead herein called the Towsley Lead and that they claim all the asphaltum, bitumen, naphtha & petroleum leads or springs within the limits of said claims and all the lands for mining purposes therein contained and that they intend to work the same according to the lands of the Los Angeles Asphaltum and Petroleum Mining District.
Said claims are situated on the north side of the San Fernando range of mountains and bounded and described as follows to wit: being on the west fork of the Rincon Canon and commencing at a walnut tree standing about 50 ft. westerly from the camp house on the Towsley Claim and running thence southernly 1000 ft. thence easterly 2000 ft. thence northerly 2000 ft. thence westerly 2000 ft., and thence southerly 1000 ft. to the place of beginning.
Darius Towsley discoverer two claims 2000 ft.
M. E. Everts discoverer one claim 1000 ft.
H. C. Wiley discoverer one claim 1000 ft.
Mining Recorders Office, Los Angeles Asphaltum and Petroleum Mining District, Los Angeles, March 18, 1865.
Whereas the above named parties did on the 15 day of March A.D. 1865, make application to me the undersigned Mining Recorder of the District, aforesaid to be placed in possession of the mining property described in the foregoing notice and I having proceeded to the above described premises and finding the same to be not upon private property and not before located under the laws of this District, did place the said parties on the 15 day of march A.D. 1865, in peaceable and quiet possession of said premises.
Wm. P. Reynolds, Recorder
by R. Sockett, Deputy
I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and correct copy of a Notice of location of mining claims under the laws of this mining district, and was by me duly recorded in Book A of Mining Claims on the 18th day of March A.D. 1865.
Wm. P. Reynolds, Recorder
by O. Morgan, Deputy
A full, true, and correct copy of the original recorded this 9th day of June A.D. 1865.
T.D. Mott, Co. Recorder
by S.H. Mott, Deputy
