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Show SCRAMBLE FOR OIL Uffl!DSPBEBICTED Discoverer of Cretaceous Dome Expects Spirited Strife This Spring. The Dry Piney and Fossil oil fields of Wyoming are likely to be the scene of lively strife within the next few tfeeks, according to Charles Lackey, discoverer of western Wyoming's petroleum wealth, who is stopping at the Newhouse hotel. Mr. Lackey is here in the interest of large Salt Lake holders in the neighboring state's oil section. For months past the Fossil and Dry Piney fields have received an inf'.ux of eastern prospectors. adventurers and claimants. Applications for land rights in the reputed oil-rich sections have been made by the score, the applications in many cases being identical und In others overlapping. No claim will be indorsed by the government gov-ernment authorities which does not carry with it proof of the discovery of what is known as shallow oil. The winter has held back drilling work and with the warm spring weather, Mr. Lackey said last night, is sure to come feverish ac-tivitv ac-tivitv on the part of all filers to locate shallow oil. The first to prove rtiscovery will be given the right lo meet the conditions con-ditions that eventuate in the grant of a land patent. Mr. Lackey states that the findings in Wyoming are already sufficient to be a guarantee of the making of many fortunes for-tunes in the near future. His own discovery dis-covery in the Dry Pinev region in the spring of 1916 started the ball of wealth seekers roiling toward Wyoming. His opening of a 200-barrel well flowing par-affine par-affine oil of a high grade only last fall emphasized the golden lure of the. district dis-trict and doubled the proportions of the seekers' invasion of Lincoln county. Just upon the location of the first big paying well by Mr. Lackey, litigation halted the liquid flow of fortune. Mr. Lackey had granted an option for a lease on the lands of the Cretaceous Oil company, com-pany, on which the 200-barrel well was located, to prominent lawyers of Cheyenne, Wyo. They had furnished $0000 for development de-velopment work, and had then decided to let the enterprise lapse. Mr. Lackey went ahead, spent 22,000 more and ended with the sirike. The lawyers then sued on their contract. The case was carried from the Kemmerer to the Cheyenne courts, and Mr. Lackey won. The Cretaceous Cre-taceous well, which has been capped since the suit began, will be released shortly. Mr. Lackey has followed the spouting of the petroleum geyser in Old Mexico and all the fields of the west. His Wyoming holdings are large, and from present indications, for once the discoverer dis-coverer of a good thing will receive his Just meed of currency reward. |