Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-10-30
CAS HEARING IS
ADJOURNED WEEK
ADDITION NJ EVIDENCE WILL BE
TAKEN UP AFTER No
NINiBER I.
VISITED THE OIL FIELDS
Attorneys Ia the Case Were Given II
First Hand View of large
Gas Well.

The attorneys from Kansas City
who have been taking dispositions
here in the Gas CO.'S case, adjourned
the hearing yesterday forenoon, and
took trip as the guests Of Mcssrs.
Stebblns and Isenbaugh through the
Glenn Pool and TO the new develop
ment which lays east OF that, the most
famous pool In the history Of oil
dom.
TO say that We were delighted and
Rstonished al what We saw does not
express il. Not only is the country
prolific in oil and gas, but IT is "a
beautiful one In every sense of the
word, and the new oil field. visited
for the first time, wonder"
They visited the Applegate farm
in section lS-l7-l3 and watched the
men casing the twelve million gasser
completed Monday, and the noise
seemed TO them terrific. A second
gas well WAS due on the same farm,
which turned out TO be an oil well and
the lesson 70 them was made impress
sive,, TO Wit that the country down
there is uncertain and erratic.
The only witness examined yes-
terday was Walter O'Neill, of the OIL
and Gas Journal. who testified as to
the production OF gas In Oklahoma
during the last three years. His tes-
timony was to the effect that In. 1910
there were drilled In Oklahoma 1885
wells, 40S dry holes, III gas wells.
In 1911, there was drilled 4.0S9 wells,
422 dry holes, and $40 gas kells. Kan
sas completed In 1910 %l6 wells. 81
dry holes and 260 gas wells. In 1911
Kansas completed AT wells. SO dry
holes and 100 gas wells. which testi-
mony went to prove the great increase
in the lumber of gas wells during 1911
over those drilled In the year preW-
Gus. Mr.. ONeill was subpoenaed for
the later hearing and was requested
TO bring statistics for the present
year.
The hearing then adjourned until
Thursday, the 7th OF November a,
(which time further testimony will be
taken.
There has been a Arong- impression
prevalent In this field as to the exact
status of this case, many people hold
ing to the opinion that the Kansas
! City Gas Co., had made a contract
with the city Of Kansas city to fur
nish gas at specific price without
regard to the gas supply, This seems
to be a mistake, according 10 the de-
cision of Judge Van Valkenberg. rem
dered at the first hearing of this case,
as the gas company appears to have
only promised to use due diligence in
procuring gas. This 1t claims to have
done, and the supply which the Kan
sas Natural Gas Co, from which the
Kansas City Gas Co obtains its sup
ply claims that on account of the
failure Of the Hogshooter field to have
been unable to get gas for last win
ter's needs.
There is but one view held by Oil
men here in regard to the price at
Kansas City and that is, that the city
should grant an increase in price TO
the Gas Co. at once, which would al
lew them to make extensions of their
line. Gas is cheap in towns forty or
fifty miles away from the gas fields
at 20 cents a thousand. and on ac-
count of the great distance which 1t
is necessary to pipe gas to Kansas
city makes 1t imperative that better
price be paid.