Kenneth Roberts v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior, and the Interior Board of Land Appeals

HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is taken from a decision of the district court, 389 F.Supp. 87, which sustained the ruling of the Interior Board of Land Appeals, 11IBLA 53, affirming the administrative law judge’s decision that 2,910 unpatented placer mining claims of the plaintiffs-appellants are null and void. United States v. Zweifel, Colorado Contest No. 441 (C.C.No. 441). We agree with the district court’s conclusions, and affirm.

The decisions cited above amply state the facts. We will only outline the background briefly as a premise for treating the appellate contentions before us.

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