2003 Revised Admin History – Part Two Chapter Five, General Admin Considerations 1902-1916

7. Fishing with nets, seines, traps, or by the use of drugs or explosives, or in any other way than with hook and line is prohibited. Fishing for purposes of merchandise or profit is forbidden. Fishing may be prohibited by order of the superintendent of the park in any of the waters of the park, or limited therein to any specified season of the year until otherwise ordered by the Secretary of the Interior.

8. No person will be permitted to reside in or to engage in any business in the park without permission, in writing, from the Secretary of the Interior. The superintendent may grant authority to competent persons to act as guides and revoke the same in his discretion, and no pack train shall be allowed in the park unless in charge of a duly registered guide.

9. The herding or grazing of loose stock or cattle of any kind on the Government lands in the park, as well as the driving of such stock or cattle over the same, is strictly forbidden, except in such cases where authority therefor is granted by the superintendent.

10. The sale or use of intoxicating liquors on the Government lands in the park is strictly forbidden.

11. Private notices or advertisements shall not be posted or displayed on the Government lands within the reservations, except such as may be necessary for the convenience and guidance of the public.

12. The act provides that, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, the reservation shall be open “to the location of mining claims and the working of the same.” It was not the purpose of this provision to extend the mining laws to the reservation without limitation, but only to authorize the location and working of mining claims thereon, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and in such manner as not to interfere with or prejudicially affect the general purpose for which the reservation was established. It is therefore prescribed:

(a) That persons desiring to locate mining claims within the reservation shall enroll their names and addresses with the superintendent of the reservation, and shall file with such superintendent a description, in writing, of the land desired to be located. They shall also file with the superintendent evidence that they are severally qualified to make locations under the mining laws, and before entering upon the reservation for such purpose they most obtain from the Secretary of tine Interior, through the superintendent, a written permit to do so. Such permit will be issued only upon condition that the applicant or applicants therefor while upon the reservation, will not destroy or damage any game, fish, timber, or natural object therein, and wild strictly observe and comply with the requirements of the law and these regulations.

(b) Lands in the reservation upon which valuable deposits of mineral shall have been or may be found may be located under the mining laws by any person or persons duly qualified and holding a permit such as is described in the preceding paragraph, and such person or persons, his or their successor or successors in interest, may work the claim or claims so located; but in carrying on the work he or they shall in all respects observe and comply with the provisions of the statute creating the reservation and with these regulations; Provided, That such person or persons may, as the proper working of such mining claim or claims shall require, be permitted to use, for mining purposes, such timber or stone found upon the land located as in the judgment of the superintendent may be so used without injury or damage to the reservation “as a public park or pleasure ground:”;And provided further, That within thirty days after the location of any mining claim upon the reservation, and before development work thereon shall be commenced a copy of the notice of location shall be filed with the superintendent, together with proof satisfactorily showing that discovery of a valuable mineral deposit has been made within the limits of the location, and, if be a placer location, that every ten-acre tract embraced therein has been found to contain valuable deposits of mineral.