Ghost v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DEVANTER, Cii'cuit Judge.
In January, 1897, Allen M. Ghost purchased from prior possessory claimants a so-called coal mine upon public lands of the United States, in Colorado, the purchase including two or three hundred feet of tunnels and shafts theretofore made in an attempt to develop an outcropping vein of coal, and various improvements and appliances used in that connection. Three days later *842he tendered at the proper local United States land office a declaratory statement of his intention to purchase the land under the coal land law, accompanied by the requisite filing fee, and these…
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