Hickel v. Oil Shale Corp.

This case involves six groups of claims to oil shale located in Colorado and asserted under the General Mining Act of 1872, 17 Stat. 91, now 30 U. S. C. §§ 22, 26, 28, and 29. Section 28 provides that until a patent issued “not less than $100 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.” 1 And § 29 provides that a patent to the claim could issue on a showing that the claimant had expended $500 worth of labor or improvements on the claim; ' These claims are not patented and were canceled in the early 1930’s on the ground that the amount of labor or improvements…