...open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in...

...holds that it does. The provision of the statute is that mineral deposits in public lands are open to "citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention, " etc. Section 2319. No requirement that the citizen shall be of any particular age is expressed; and,...

...and are declared free and open to exploration and purchase under regulations prescribed by law, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention of becoming such: provided that all who have located and recorded valid claims under previous valid...

...open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in...

...lands belonging to the United States were declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase by citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in...

...open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in...

...provided, and are declared free and open to exploration and purchase under regulations prescribed by law by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention of becoming such: Provided, That all who have located and recorded claims under previous laws and have...

...open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they were found to occupation and purchase by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, did not preclude a private corporation, formed under the laws of a State, whpse members were...

...incorporation. These enactments restrict the right of purchasing mineral lands of the United States to citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, and by consequence exclude aliens from the enjoyment of that privilege. The trustee in this case...

...The original act provided that the mineral lands should be open to exploration and purchase by all citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such.2 And in this point of citizenship being requisite to the exercise of their right, there has been...