The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-22

carrying capacity of 40, 000, 900 cubic feet
of gas a day. The Kansas City pipe
line will have almost double that ca
pacity, as 1T will be- "a inch line.
The Kansas Natural Gas company
now has a daily production of 700. 900 900
cubic feet 1t has a daily production in
cubic feet. 1t only consumes 100000
cubic feet in supplying the various
towns in the county. The combined ca
pacity of the two big pipe lines-12O,-
600, 900 cubic feet-will not exceed one
fifth of the present production. The
company claims that within 60 days 1T
can increase its daily production to p
900, 100000 cubic feet, or three times It's
present production
The farmers who have gas to sell, as
rule, are not opposed to the piping
out of gas. As evidence of this the pipe
line people point to the fact that only
four farmers along the entire right OF
way of the Galena line a distance OF
55 miles-have refused to donate or sell
rights of way through their farms. Host
of the farmers donated the right OF
way. Others only asked nomina!
sum. But the four who refused stood
pat. They declined very liberal offers.
The company had to pipe around three
of them 1t couldn't go around the
fourth one, so it arbitrarily went
through it and will take its chances or
an equitable settlement in the courts. :.
ST have some gas wells on my farm,
said c. w. Mosier, a big farmer.
can get some money out of it. These
home gas for home fellows are anxi-
Gus for US who own the gas to keep IL
bottled up. They don't seem anxious,
however, to buy our gas and hold it
themselves. I have been holding my
gas for some years. Now am Wli!ing
for some one else to have it. VI they
want to plank down their cash now Tor
it and then hold it they can do So"
1.-The people here have slept on their
rights said Charles Voc, of the Trl-
bune, who owns a farm near town IL
is now too late to stop the piping out
of gas. Many farmers want their gas
land developed. They get from $50 TO
800 per well rental year, providing
the gas is marketed. They get scarcely
anything If the well is capped.
II am in favor of selling the gas,
said Martin Turner, another big farm
er, "but I do not approve the method
the pipe line company has adopted IN
securing its right of way. 1t should
have gone about it as railroads do"
Mr.. Mosier, in his statement, voiced
the sentiments of a good portion OF the
farmers who have gas to sell
I'VE have run across only Few farrn-
ers who are opposed to the PROPOSE
ton" said a court official today.
Henry w. Young, editor of the Kan
sas Popultst. is an ardent anti-piper.
Still he doesn't think that the people
can prevent the piping OF gas out or
the state ultimately. His scheme is TO
have the legislature throw such re
around pipe lines d. " AAeAn
it impossible to supply the factories at
Kansas City with gas for fuel.
"The legislature should pass q law
said he, "making gas pipe lines com
mon carrier, like railroads, and force
them to transport everybodys gas at
given rate. Then if a farmer who has
not leased his farm should strike gas ne
could turn it into the pipe line and get
his money for it. He might also hnd a
way TO make a lessee develop the lease
This would help the farmer In the gas
belt Another provision should be IN
serted giving individuals and towns In
the vicinity of the pipe line the right to
tan the line under certain conditions,
paving for the gas at a rate fixed by the
This would be a great OBJ
stacle in the way of supplying gas 70
Kansas City factories. Gas pressure di-
ninishes about seven pounds per mile
1t would have to be pumped into Kan
sas City. If the line were tapped every
few miles it would be impossible to get
enough pressure to send gas to Kansas
City to compete with coal for factory
fuel. There is always leakage and air
would get in the pipes and the heating
be diminished 1t would be
cheap for domestic uses compared TO
present prices, but the big factories
could mot I1ze il with profit"