This was located in the valley of the Rawhide, and when the Burlington built the North River branch, they named a town near his several thousand acres of fine alluvial land in honor of his genius and enterprise. He bonded the whole acreage with several thousand additional under the Carey Act and built an irrigation system. About this time the government irrigation act was passed, and the North Platte project thereof found that "Lucky Valley," occupied by Lingle's Colonization Canal, was the only practical route through the barrier of sand hills between Rawhide and Sheep creek. Lingle sold his ditch to the government, and has since divided his lands into small farms and sold all to settlers except the home place of two hundred and forty acres, which he retains for a summer home. Mr. and Mrs. Lingle reside in Chicago the balance of the year.

The well known PF ranch in the vicinity of old Red Cloud agency came into existence afh r iIk departure of the Indians for their new quarters en White river. The two locations known to the present generations are at Lingle, Wyoming and Henry, Nebraska.

Al. S. Connoly was the foreman for a number of years, and was a remarkable man, having a grasp upon the details of all the several locations that was almost uncanny. What happened to him never came out clearly, but it may have been the weariness of the grind. At any rate, he quit the ranch work and made quite an extended search of Wyoming, with the hope of locating a bed of "coking coal." Had he been successful, Guernsey would have been the great foundry center that the inhabitants thereof have long hoped it would be.