Our meeting Sunday eve. we thought went great. Jim McEvoy represented MarkWest. He had met with my husband and I earlier that week with the land agent Fred Hines.

Jim seemed very knowledgeable and satsified all of our questions. He wrote in things to clarify on the lease/addendum. All present agreed that if he would come back with the $15 a foot for pipeline and $25 a foot for damages, we would sign. He told me he would be on the phone with MarkWest in Denver, CO and would call me on Monday with results.

Monday about 11:00 we had a message from a Noel Glenn ( I think that is the correct name) from Mark West. She stated she was the project manager for this pipeline and wanted to meet with me. We played phone tag till Tuesday eve. I then spent an hour on the phone with her. Totally frustrating. Seems like we are almost back an square one.  She said no way could she pay $15 and $25. She wanted to know if I could set up a meeting, have everyone bring their drivers' license and be prepared to sign.

I told her she'd better bring her best offer, cause as far as I was concerned this was their last chance, and the total of $40 a foot had been our asking price from day 1. She pretty much said this would just pull the plug on the whole project if we couldn't sign.

Will see how Sunday goes. I told her I would not speak for the rest of the group, but we would not sign for less. I wanted to tell her that after Sunday the price will go up $1.00 a foot a day for all the inconvenience they are causing.

Hope you don't mind my venting.  We will probably still tell her we won't sign without the atty. looking it over again.

Patsy