The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-12-30

have TO wait very long for buyer at
that figure.
Before the gas was found, $40 to 800
per acre covered the value. Exhaust
the gas in this field and farms, except
those that have oil under them, Will
go back 10 their agricultural value.
Anything, then, that exhausts the
gas without an adequate return Is
very great disadvantage to the farmer.
The speculator who may have hooded
the farmer into giving very favor
able lease to the speculator and very
unfavorable one to the farmer and
has found gas on his holdings. may,
regardless of the interest OF the
farmer, seek the speediest way posi-
BILE TO get his money back, even to
the favoriog of pipe lines.
Under the pipe line system, no
farmer will get anything worthwhile
for his gas, unless he has Incorporated
in his lease that the gas shall be
metered aud he have his 1,S or 1.6
Of all gas taken out. Then he is not
safe because Tue plpeIs can put down
wells on adjoining farms where the
terms are more favorable and steal
most Of his gas.
The heavy draw OF Il pipe line on
our best wells will exhaust them 10 a
year or two and she farmer has only
his land exhausted of its gas. The
pipe line men may say they will not
draw heavily from any well, but 1t is
not reasonable to suppose that they
are going to spider web this country
with feed pipes. They will run out
the arms Of the octopus into one
neig hborhood till the gas is exhausted
and then surrender the leases and
stop the rentals and moving their
pipes into the other land, treat it the
same way. Thus their rentals Will be
cut down and the pay TO the farme
cease. :
Every farmer who looks to his own
interest ami the interest of the com
munity will do everything In his
power to keep out the pipe line. No
farmer should eyer consent to grant
Jog right Uf way for any pipe line,
and should throw every possible
obstacle in the way. Very soon there
will be a home demand for the gas
and this demand Will pay the farmer
tenfold more money than the piping
out plan, even under the terms of the
same lease, because the drain will not
be so hard and the gas will last many
years longer.
The farmers can easily stop all talk
OF piping our gas away, If they VIII
lust band themselves together and
announce to the world that no gas
pipe line that has for its object the
piping of gas away shall cross their
premises.
This talk of piping out is already
working an injury tu this locality, as
factories are 10th to locate in com-
munity where a pipe line is likely to
find foothold.
Gas land is growing more valuable
every year. The gas rights on a
quarter section of land near LaHarpe
sold for $4,000 the other day. One
hundred dollars per acre for gas Is
cheap when factories are once estao-
lished and demand created. Factor.
les are not going to continue paying
high prices for fuel very long when
they find they can get abundance OF
cheap gas by a move and are assured
that it will not be stolen away from
them by a pipe line.
Land holders, consider these things
we'll and act for your own interests.
Remember that you own the land to
the center of the road, for all pull
poses but that of public highway.
Also remember that If pipe line gets
once started 10 this locality there will
be no competition in the price of gas
but If the pipe line is kept out there
will soon be numerous factories bid
ding for the gas and prices will con-
SANITY advance.