The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-10-29
City Council Considers the Nat
ural Gas Proposition and
Asks Mayor Burton to
Call Special Election
PROPOSES FORTY CENT
RATE FOR THREE YEARS
Five Cents Less for Prompt Pay
ments = Slight Concessions
Made Promoter Depos-
its Check for Expenses

Al a special meeting held Monday
night IN the city hall tho city council
considered the franchise submitted By
the Big Horizon Oil and Gas CO. and
passed a resolution authorizing the
mayor to call a special election and
submit the acceptance or rejection Of
the franchise to the win Of the people.
Mr. 0Hara represented the gas
company and went over the franchise
with the city council, section BY sec.
tion, yielding some Of the minor points
asked by the city dads. but in the
main, the franchise was passed in its
original form
The company proposes to start at
once, after the acceptance OF the fran
chi5e BY the people, 70 lay q pipe line
into chickasha, and It - stipulated in
the franchise that .he work must be
complete and that the Big Horizon Oil
and Gas Co must be ready to furnish
the city OF Chickasha gas within
eight months after the passage Of DE
franchise, or said franchise is null ana
void.
The question Of price was argued
long and strenuousiy, the council CON
tending that the price could be redue-
ed, but Mr. o'Hara stood fast and the
price vas passed as drafted IA lbe
original franchise. The price fixed
was 10 cents per 1000 cubic feet oi
gas for the first three years, with a
rebate Of cents per 1900 cubic feet
providing payment Is made beiHe the
10th Of the month Tho romaians ..
years Of the franchise calls for a price
OF 50 cents per 1850 cubic feet q
gas with a S cent rebate on bills paid
before the 10th Of the month.
The city hail and fire station No
are 10 be furnished gas free OF charge
and a reduction or DO per cent is made
for churches. school buildings and thl
Carnegie library Mf OHara states
positively That he would NO, be per
mitiod to reduce lhe price mentioned
IN the franchise because e Is exacth
the same. lie says, as the prices men
toned Ia tho lawion and Duaeai
franchises. and, said Mr. 0Hafa
I'VE cannot 80 80 miles farther witl
the pipe line and make eheape
rate"
Mr. O'Hara said no realized that an
gas company has to enter iulo compe
tition with coal IN supplying lactorie
and that ills company would readif
meet with board Of trade seleete'
from the business men Of the city O
Chickasha and fi1 rates for the ga
supply to factories and mills that az
now located here or that may loeat
here in the future
Err Collins stated that he has bee
in communication from time to tim
with eastern cotton mills Of yariou
kinds and that they realize that the
win have to bring their mills to th
cotton patches lastead of shipping th
cotton to tie mills and then paYin
the freight hack on the finished pr
duct He stated further that Chick
sha was the logical point for SON
such mills and that In his opinion "
would have had SOME good mills hei
now had we been possessed with chez
fuel, and that he felt that with
cheap rate made on gas as fuel y
would get some good factoriesA
The terms Of the franchise stipula
that tho Big Horn oil and Gas G
shall bear att expenses attached
the calling Of the special electio
within Is days after the acceptan
OF the franchise, and TO show his go'
faith Mr.. O'fIara placed check (
$3.50 in the hands Of r. M Evans, d
city treasurer, last night for this pl
pose
Mr. OHara further stated that {
company intended to establish ths
main offices in chichasha on aceou
oi the railroad facilities and the e'
tral location.