Ownership & Rights-Property, Minerals, Prospecting & Access, winter seminar Options

[CP]

Hello everyone,

We are holding a winter seminar (in person attendance required) in Colorado Springs Colorado during the weekend of Jan 19-20.
Main topic to be discussed is "ownership" and the many facets of ownership that affect our field work as prosepctors/miners.
Whether you are a land owner or mining claim owner or not you will want to attend this seminar. Many facets of ownership apply to you even if you do not think you "own" any land right now!
Post up here if you are interested in attending this seminar, it will be a great weekend of disscussions!

Let's hear it, who's interested?

[sunspirit]

Hi all!
Frankly, I am surprised that no one has responded to this. I am not a mountain land owner but sometime in the future I would like to aquire a claim that I can (at least) break even on. What I was hoping to find at the seminar was info on how to search county land records. Do you just walk in and ask to see a map of all current claims in the county? Can I ask to see all the maps of a particular drainage? Say, Cottonwood Creek, for example, from the Arkansas river up to the top of Cottonwood Pass. Or Fish Creek from the North Fork of the Poudre to the WY state line.
I understand that claims need to be in terms of "township and range" but I don't understand how to find that info. Or even exactly how that system works. This stuff can be found on the LR2000 system, (I have heard) but that whole thing seems to be cumbersome and hard to figure out.
Larimer County has a map system that can tell who pays the tax on any piece of land in the county. Do other counties have the same kind of system? if so, where can I find them?
These are a few of the things that I would find helpful, and maybe this will stimulate some posts. If all this is covered in the archives please point me in the right direction as I haven't had time to go through them all. I guess that it all boils down to: when I go into the courthouse I want to ask for exactly what I need (and not look like a bumbling fool), spending as little time in the records as possible and as much in the field as possible. can anyone help a bumbling fool? Thanks in advance!

[swizz]

Hi all!
Frankly, I am surprised that no one has responded to this. I am not a mountain land owner but sometime in the future I would like to aquire a claim that I can (at least) break even on. What I was hoping to find at the seminar was info on how to search county land records. Do you just walk in and ask to see a map of all current claims in the county? Can I ask to see all the maps of a particular drainage? Say, Cottonwood Creek, for example, from the Arkansas river up to the top of Cottonwood Pass. Or Fish Creek from the North Fork of the Poudre to the WY state line.
I understand that claims need to be in terms of "township and range" but I don't understand how to find that info. Or even exactly how that system works. This stuff can be found on the LR2000 system, (I have heard) but that whole thing seems to be cumbersome and hard to figure out.
Larimer County has a map system that can tell who pays the tax on any piece of land in the county. Do other counties have the same kind of system? if so, where can I find them?
These are a few of the things that I would find helpful, and maybe this will stimulate some posts. If all this is covered in the archives please point me in the right direction as I haven't had time to go through them all. I guess that it all boils down to: when I go into the courthouse I want to ask for exactly what I need (and not look like a bumbling fool), spending as little time in the records as possible and as much in the field as possible. can anyone help a bumbling fool? Thanks in advance!

Whew... that's a lot of questions. All good to ask and very worthy of discussion.
It would be difficult to address all of them in this thread as it would stray in many different directions. The info is definitely in various threads throughout the archives of this site but specifics regarding any of your questions are always Topic worthy on their own. Start a topic on one or more of those questions and I'll jump right in!

BUT... this is a great reason to have the seminar. It would be really nice to cover ALL the bases and and ask questions first-hand. An LR2000 tutorial, etc.... all that fun stuff! The key is a 'whole' understanding and I think that a seminar like Dan has offered would be a great venue if there's enough interest and the location is fairly central.
Knowing your ownership and mining rights as a U.S. Citizen is beneficial, empowering, and even...... profitable?