The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-23
Will TAKE SEVEN MONTHS
As Things Are Going to Get Gas Pipes
to ans City.

Chanute, Kan, 23.-It VIII
take them seven months, as things go,
to build the pipe from 1he 80
belt to Kansas City. h n might
be finished in less time than that II
there was a great emergency put IN
the ordinary cours Of the days work
and allowing for such delass as are
incidental to the building OF pipe INES
it will be autumn before the line
reaches the Kaw. A mile a day IS a
fair average for pipe line building.
n distance from independence TO
Kansas City is something like 220
miles IS h pipe line Will run but
makes 220 days of line building. But
the building will not begin o some
time yet. For the immediate present
most OF the construction forces for the
Kansas Natural Gas company are en-
gagged in finishing up the line to Jop-
lin. This line is now within q Few
miles OF completion and then all the
force will be put on the Kansas City
line.
The pipe for the kansas City line
is now being received and 1t is being
strung along the right of way. There
have been more than thirty car loads
of pipe for the line received at Cha-
mute during the week and it has been
hauled west. other cars are coming
In fast and the pipe is being hauled
west as fast as received.
James O,NeilL. one of the original
promoters of the Kansas Natural Gas
company and a director of the COM
pany, said that the line is going to be
pushed rapidly, but that they do not
expect to be piping gas into Kansas
City, Mo, before next summer 1t
is a long line" he said, "and although
we have secured all our rights of way
and have the pipe all ready and the
labor engaged there are still a whole
lot of things which may deter us.
There is the weather, for instance, and
there might come some floods like
those of last spring, which would lay
nc ozrf FA- w-,AH- DE- ~-A -~nor 70
have our pipe into Kansas City, KAN,
by the end of August. This will give
US the chance to supply the people
with cheap fuel for next winter We
originally expected to be in Kansas
City by this time, but there have been
necessary delays in the building of the
line from Bolton to Joplin and delays
in getting the pipe, and then there has
been the failure on the part of the
Kansas City council to grant the fran
chise, Consequently, we do not know
just where we stand so far as Kansas
City, Mo-, is concerned. We have
franchises in some of the towns be-
tween Independence and Kansas City.
w also believe that Topeka, Atchi-
son, L~eavenworth and st. Joseph are
needing gas n that they will take it.
Our plan is to have a big main from
the gas belt to the northern end of
the state. 1t may be necessary in
time, when the people of the northern
end of the state begin to see what gas
is, to build two mains. If it should be
necessary. we have the rights of way.
and it will be only a matter of detail
TO lay the additional line. If We can
sell the gas in Kansas City, Mo, We.
are going to lay a pipe line there. We
have never had any other intention.
We bought the gas for the rpo of
selling it and we are going to sell it
in the best market. Of course. If they
do not want it in Kansas City we will
try and sell the gas somewhere else"