The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-28
Was Started Out at the Chanute
Tank Farm.
COMPLETED In so DAYS
Large Gang of Men Has the
Work Beyond Humboldt.
Beaumont Operators Make Big
Purchase Near Chanute.

Chanute. Kas., May 2S.-This week
is witnessing the beginning OF lile
most important single happening III
the history of the gas belt-the laying
of the STANDARD Oil line to Kansas
Citv. The right of way was secured
several weeks ago, but TINS wees
witnesses the first actual laying Oh
the line. The line has been begun at
the Chanute tank farm and is ALREADY
under ground as far as the NeOsho
vi,,er bridge. several miles north OF
town and is strung on top OF the
ground past Humboldt. As soon as
the line is laid, which it Will be wlthln
ninety days. things are going TO mum
down this way as they have never
f,,rorned before. The Standard mas d
ganp of twenty men or more laying
the main and the speed with Whlcn
thew cover the iron pipes with earIh
Is something amazing.
The Chanute oil public is greatly
Interested lust now in a matter that
fbe Oil Producers association OF TINS
city has taken up with the standard
oil company. 1t is an attempt TO Sc
cure a purchasing agency at TINS
v,CInt So oil checks can be secured
daily by operators, instead OF month
". as now. Mr.. Day, of the standard
company has promised to take the
matter up, and 1t seems TO De Otliy
question of time till this want will be
met The association has received It's
charter from the state OF Kansas Inc
capital has been fixed at $IOOO, ana
the stock is divided into zoo Shares.
Permanent headquarters have also
been secured over the Hub" where
two rooms have been secured.
One of the most important transac-
tfons which has ever been consum-
mated in the Chanute field was closed
this week. D. R. Beatty, W. b Skin
vim and John S. Yost, oil operators at
Beaumont, Tex, purchased the lease
holdings and other property OF the
Shaw Oil, Gas and Mineral company
for $125.0OO. The Shaw company
holdings lie eight miles southeast of
Chanute and consist of 1,O11 acres.
The company was organized about a
year ago by number of farmers
living in the neighborhoOd, who as
signed to the company the oil and
mineral rights on their respective
tracts of land and raised money
among themselves for development
purposes. They met remarkable sue
cess. Six wells are drilled, all of
company at the time of its sale trans
ferred besides the Iease-holdings on
the 1,011 acres, the six wells, pump
ing system. tank house and 1000 bar
rels of crude OIL which had been
stored in tanks awaiting the coming
of the Standard Oil company's pipe
line.
The sale was made and closed by
been negotiating the deal for several
weeks. The cash consideration was
$4,000 and there were other consid-
eratiOns, making the total selling
price S125,0OO. Mr. Connelley will
have charge of the holdings and field
work temporarily. The new purehas-
ers viii arrive in Chanute soon to
make arrangements for pushing oper-
atoms on the holdings. They are
among the most prominent oil oper-
atOrs of Texas and their advent into
the Chanute field is significant The
purchase was made after a thorough
and comprehensive examination of
the Kansas and Territory oil regions.
Mr. Beatty is Il formerly OF Kansas
man, being raised at lola. He made a
fortune on the Spindle Top when the
Beaumont field was first exploited.
and will continue his operations in
Texas in addition to his work in the
Chanute field.
Another lease sale lately made in the
southeast field was the transfer of 80
acres-the west half of the southwest
quarter of section "a. township 2S.
range 49, by J. H. Rogers to the
X-Ray oil and Gas company for SIS
600. The eighty lies just west of the
tract upon which the X-Ray company
is operating, and was desired by them
to expand their territory.