A location may be made by an agent, and in such a case, written authority from the principal is not necessary.6 In such a case, however, there must either be a previous authorization to use the name of a principal or a subsequent ratification or adoption of the act. Where the name of an absent person is used without his knowledge, there is no legal owner to the claim- no person to stand for its paternity - and the location is not good as against a later valid appropriation.7

5 Morrison's Mining Rights, p. 308.

6 Murley vs. Ennis, 2 Col., 300; 12

M. R., 360; Dunlap vs. Patti-son, 42 P., 504. 7 Morrison's Mining Rights, p. 58.