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More Boulder county logic

Postby golden optimist » Thu Nov 18, 2010 7:56 am

I went down to my local office of the county recorder to file my affidavit of labor on one of my claims. We don't have to do it here until the end of the year. That normally costs $6.00 + 25 cents per claim. I had problems in the past with them not charging me the 25 cents and them getting a nasty letter about a week later. Over the years I usually argued with them for about 20 minutes to get them to call the main office to verify the fee. This year they charged me $11.00 and in the confusion, I forgot to argue about the 25 cents. I wrote a check for $11.00 and went merrily on my way.

1 week later I got all of the paperwork and my check back becuse I was 25 cents short. This cost them 42 cents to mail to me plus another 42 cents when I refiled. That didn't make a lot of sense to me but oh well.

A few weeks later I once again went into the local office to re-file. I gave them the original paperwork, the same $11.00 check and pulled a quarter out of my pocket, talked to a supervisor about why they can't charge me correctly. We went over the fee sheet and it seems that I am the only one in the county that files it at that office. There used to be another guy but he died, and once again I left and went on my merry way.

I received the paperwork back in the mail yesterday. Attached to the paperwork was a letter and a $5.00 bill and the block checked on the letter said:

Refund. The fee for affidavit of labor did not increase in July. The fee is $6.00 per page and 25 cents per mining claim.

Am I missing something here?


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Re: More Boulder county logic

Postby russau » Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:06 am

Leonard, when dealing with morons, just keep smileing and shakeing your head up-n-down! they understand that!
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Re: More Boulder county logic

Postby geno » Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:18 am

Sounds like a typical govt office to me.
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Re: More Boulder county logic

Postby CalGoldDredger » Thu Nov 18, 2010 11:19 am

Can't say I have ever had any issues with Butte county, their terrific, they even run it over to the tax collector office for me. Now, the BLM that is a different story.
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Re: More Boulder county logic

Postby tcfifer » Thu Nov 18, 2010 4:28 pm

I am aware of a situation in one of the western states where the local BLM office regulates all mining in their district, and their ranger in charge at that time did not know the difference between a highbanker and a dredge!!

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Re: More Boulder county logic

Postby Grivy » Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:26 pm

Leonard are we ( forum posters )missing something here you just retired from a government facility which most likely as you were the HNIC did and caused and muffed up more unknown situations than a human bean could blink at and you don't understand how this works ??? maybe it's a taste of, well to be nice about it some of the same ole malarky you dealt other opponents during the course of your career ? maybe ? good luck in future dealings with these knuckle heads, :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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Re: More Boulder county logic

Postby DJR » Thu Nov 18, 2010 6:20 pm

golden optimist wrote:I went down to my local office of the county recorder to file my affidavit of labor on one of my claims. We don't have to do it here until the end of the year. That normally costs $6.00 + 25 cents per claim. I had problems in the past with them not charging me the 25 cents and them getting a nasty letter about a week later. Over the years I usually argued with them for about 20 minutes to get them to call the main office to verify the fee. This year they charged me $11.00 and in the confusion, I forgot to argue about the 25 cents. I wrote a check for $11.00 and went merrily on my way.

1 week later I got all of the paperwork and my check back becuse I was 25 cents short. This cost them 42 cents to mail to me plus another 42 cents when I refiled. That didn't make a lot of sense to me but oh well.

A few weeks later I once again went into the local office to re-file. I gave them the original paperwork, the same $11.00 check and pulled a quarter out of my pocket, talked to a supervisor about why they can't charge me correctly. We went over the fee sheet and it seems that I am the only one in the county that files it at that office. There used to be another guy but he died, and once again I left and went on my merry way.

I received the paperwork back in the mail yesterday. Attached to the paperwork was a letter and a $5.00 bill and the block checked on the letter said:

Refund. The fee for affidavit of labor did not increase in July. The fee is $6.00 per page and 25 cents per mining claim.

Am I missing something here?


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Re: More Boulder county logic

Postby Grivy » Fri Nov 19, 2010 11:30 am

Check this out, wonder how many BLM nuts are getting it on in the woods let alone the airports LOL :lol:



http://cbs4denver.com/investigates/dia. ... 15692.html


BTW Leonard got your messege I'm still working Thank you and we are moving to another job down in Hatch NM I'm running an office for a company that builds roads for Wind Mill farms, they got a bunch of rock crushers that are really cool and would make Bill Brew go nuts, I'll get some picks put together and postum
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Re: More Boulder county logic

Postby golden optimist » Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:11 pm

Grivy wrote:Check this out, wonder how many BLM nuts are getting it on in the woods let alone the airports LOL :lol:



http://cbs4denver.com/investigates/dia. ... 15692.html


BTW Leonard got your messege I'm still working Thank you and we are moving to another job down in Hatch NM I'm running an office for a company that builds roads for Wind Mill farms, they got a bunch of rock crushers that are really cool and would make Bill Brew go nuts, I'll get some picks put together and postum


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Got room for me to come down and visit you and the dogs for a few days after thanksgiving?

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Re: More Boulder county logic

Postby russau » Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:24 pm

Grivy, i think they were a little hard on this young thing! they get breaks and lunch time and ought tobe able to do as they wish during those times! ya just got to relax and smell the roses every now and then! haha caught on tape! there was a second shift gaurd at where i used to wowowowowork(sorry, its still real hard to use that word!)and he and a second shift house cleaning gal got caught on tape on a loading dock doing the boogie also! HE should have known of these camaras and their locations being a gaurd!!! maybe he did!!
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