Arko Mining Co. v. Ickes

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

The appellant, Arko Mining Company, an Arizona corporation, was incorporated April 22, 1918, and immediately thereafter, in response to a request from the United States government, commenced mining operations in Crow Wing county, Minn., through a mining lease purchased for that purpose. The leased property contained a large body of manganif erous iron ore which had been tested by drilling1 through the same; hence the property was in practically fair condition for appellant company to proceed with the production of ore in sufficient quantities to be of commercial…