Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-04-22
LARGEST OIL. GAS AND CEMENT
PROPOSITIONS On COUNTRY
LAUNCHED ~ VEGAS.
own 10000 ACRES
Land Under Lease in Chase Comfy
kaa- on Which Are Twelve Sig
Producing Wells.

One of the larges. oil. gas and CO.
ment propositions In the United
States was launched In Las Vegas
Saturday. and everything points 70 a
wonderful financial success for the
enterprise. 1t is known as the Kaa
sas and New Mexico OIL. Gas. Pipe
Line and Cement Company. II Is or.
ganized under the laws OF Arizona
and is capitalized at s5.o00.ooo. The
board Of directors Is as follows: Hen.
ry Coke. Las Vegas; Il. L. Roudebusa
Topeka. Kan; G. W. Shaw, Elmdale
Kan: Hallett Reynolds. Las Vegas:
c. s. Jennings. Elmdale. Kan; E.
ID. Reynolds. Las Vegas: w. ]. Lucas
Las Vegas: Capt e. G. Austen, Las
Vegas; DR.. E. B. Shaw. Las Vegas.
The officers elected are:
Henry Coke. President: Edwin d
Shaw, vice president: Hallett Ray
nolds. secretary-treasurer, G. W
Shaw. manager; c. s. Jennings. child
engineer: Stephen B. Davis and W
J. Lucas. attorneys
The men most heavily interested
are Las Vegans and the main offices
of the company will be located here
with a branch office at Eimdala
Kan, where the gas and oil fields and
the cement plant Of the company will
be located.
The company has 10000 acres of
land under lease in Chase county
Kan, upon which is located twelve
Dig producing gas wells These wells
cover a territory two by six miles
proving beyond doubt that the com.
pany has one Of the largest, If not the
largest reservoirs of natural gas In
the world. 1t Is remarkable fact
that of the twelve wells drilled so far
by the company. every one shows a
heavy flow Of gas. proving that the
entire territory lies over vast lake
OF oil and gas. The work of drilling
other wells is being pushed rapidly
1t being the intention of the com.
pany to prospect the entire 10000
acres Immediately.
Chase county, Kansas, Is the center
OF the most thickly populated section
Ut Kansas, there being a large mum
ber of town and cities within a small
radius which will be furnished fine,
from the wells of the company. But
thls Will only be a small feature of the
business proposed by the company
Their land abounds in the materia,
necessary for the manufacture Of ce
ment. and they propose to begin at
once the work of erecting what prom
1ses TO be the largest cement factory
in the west. With free fuel and ev
cry other thing necessary for the pro.
duction of high grade cement, it is
figured that they can produce the fin.
ished article cheaper than can any
other factory now in existence.
The cement business is one of tho
most promising that could be engay
ed in. The use of cement is not new.
1t was used by the Egyptian in the
building Of the pyramids, it was used
by Solomon in the erection of the
temple, and it has been used by ev,
cry people and in every country
since the beginning of time. But <he
wonderful diversity Of uses for which
cement is adaptable are just being
discovered. It is predicted that the
output of cement during the coming
year in the United States WIN be in.
sufficient to build even a small Dor.
ton Of the Panama canal. Cement is
rapidly taking the place of stone IN
everything pertaining to building
whether it be sky scrapers in the
cities or docks along the ocean trout
The cement boom is here to stay.
II II most fortunate that local cap.
ital has control of this wonderful gas
field. 1t means much for Las Vegas.
All the business Of the company will
be transacted from here and the com.
pany's money disbursed from the 10