Show SAVED HIS LEASE the republican of kemmerer Wyom wyoming Dg in an issue of recent date contains an interesting account of the strenuous effort made by E L smith of that place to comply with the requirements of his lease under most unfavorable conditions it says E L smith of kemmerer had secured a lease on a piece of property controlled by peter keenan which provided that a 3 rig and a certain amount of casing should be on the ground at the close of the month the rig and casing had been purchased and shipped and were somewhere in the united states in the hands of the railroad administration plenty of watchful waiting at the depot but no material finally when time began to get uncomfortably fort ably short an effort was made to an extension for a short time and a substantial bonus said to have been 1000 offered the owner of the property however being aware of its probable value declined to extend the lease and prepared to take his land back when the clock struck 12 sunday night enter charles lackey who at this point becomes an actor in this oil field dra drama he had some casing at opal which he could and would lend mr smith until the tn batters lat arrived he had a rig on a tract of land near by which could be moved trucks were hastily requisitioned to haul the casing from opal teams were enlisted at big piney to move the rig the snova was too deep for wheels so enough bo bob 0 o sleds were found and with the aid of sixteen horses mr lackey and his men moved the oil rig onto the ground and saved the day or the lease by less than twenty fal four hours |