Mining Claims—Intersecting Veins — Priority of Title. — The ownership of mineral contained within the space of intersection of two veins which cross each other is determined by priority of title to the respective veins.

Id. — Bargain and Sale Deed — Designation of Boundaries — Estoppel of Grantor — Validity of Location — Effect of Deed. — Where the claimant of a mine in possession makes a bargain and sale deed thereof, particularly designating its surface boundaries, he is es-topped, as against the grantee, from denying a valid location by himself or his grantor, as the basis of the title conveyed; and the grantee, as against the grantor, becomes vested with title to the mining claim, as fully as if it were patented, including every vein and every part of every vein throughout its entire depth, which has its apex within the surface boundaries designated in the deed, subject to the provisions of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

Id.—Locations Subsequent to Deed—Priority of Title — Right to Intersecting Vein. — The grantor of such mining claim can acquire no right as against his grantee by virtue of any subsequent location to defeat or limit his grantee’s estate, or any right appurtenant thereto, and the fact that such subsequent location was made upon a vein not transferred to the grantee, but which intersects with a vein having its apex within the surface boundaries of the granted vein, and was made prior to a relocation by the grantee of the granted vein, is immaterial, as respects priority of title to the mineral at the point of intersection, the grantee having such priority, as against the grantor, by virtue of the deed of bargain and sale, which necessarily implies a valid prior location to the extent of the boundaries granted.

Id. — Small Veins Intersecting Larger. — The size of the intersecting XCVI. Cal.—3 veins is immaterial upon the question of the legal rights attached to ownership, and a single small vein which intersects a larger one is weighed and measured by the same law, and entitled to the same consideration before the court, as the mother lode.

Id. — Agreed Boundary Line — Erection of Bulkhead — Agreement not Retroactive upon Prior Title. — The erection of a barricade or bulkhead by the parties as an agreed boundary between the works of their respective mines, subsequent to the working out of the mineral at the place of intersection of veins cropping upon the surface of their respective claims, is immaterial, upon the question of the right to such mineral by priority of title, as such title existed before the erection of the bulkhead.