(1) Upon the filing of said petition, the court shall designate a newspaper published within the county where the district is situated and shall order that in such newspaper there shall be published a notice addressed individually to the owners of all the mining claims within the boundaries of the proposed district, other than the petitioners, and generally to all such other persons as may be interested in said mining claims.
(2) Such notice shall be published for four successive weeks. It shall contain a copy of the petition and shall state that the petition will be heard on such date thereafter as may be set by the court and stated in such notice and shall notify all persons, owners of mining claims within said district, or persons interested therein, to appear and plead to said petition on or before a date certain, and that otherwise default will be taken and a decree made according to the facts and equities of the case as they may be found by the court.