The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-07

Pine Line Company shall double its
run from that field, bringing 1t up 10
5000 barrels a day. Before July l,
and not later than July 10, 1t must be
prepared to take not less than 1900
barrels per day.
Immediate erection of four $4,000
barrel tanks in the field Is ordered,
These tanks are to be filled with mer-
chantable oil for which the company
shall pay so cents a barrel, the price
now in effect.
The company is relieved as COM
mon carrier from connecting with any
new wells for a period of six months,
except wells that must be completed
within that time on account of lease
agreements or other necessities.
The order if made final, is to remain
in full force and effect until April l,
1915. This order however would be-
come null and void if in the meantime
another order dealing with the same
situation should be issued by the com.
mission.
These are among the important fea-
lures OF the tentative order and with
possibly some minor changes and
amendments, it is believed to be gen
orally acceptable to the producers.
Judge Greer, attorney for the Mag
nolia company, would not state de-
linitely Tuesday afternoon what his
attitude would be but inasmuch as
the order embodies many of the pro-
positions he proposed 1t is believed
il will be acceptable.
The proposition submitted by Judge
Greer Tuesday morning contained a
proyiso that it would become null and
void if the price of oil was fixed by
any one other than the Magnolia Pipe
Line Company This provision was
fatty rejected by Attorney General
West, who declares he will maintain
his fight for an order from the com
mission regulating the price of oil
Greer Objects.
The order requiring companies to
give ten days notice before reducing
the price of oil, was objected to by
Judge Greer. He cOntended that the
commission was without authority to
promulgate such an order, inasmuch
as it had the effect of depriving the
company of the right of contract, which
he declared was in violation of the
/ fourteenth amendment to the consti-
tuition of the United States.
Judge Greer formally entered his OBJ
/ lection to the order on behalf of the
Magnolia Pipe Line Company. In do
] ing this he said he would show that
+ the oil producers represented only a
small per cent of the population OF
the state. and that the public as a
whole was not interested in the oil
production business.
The Proposed Order.
1T is hereby ordered by the cor
poration commission of the state OF
Oklahoma that from and after the en-
try of this order all pipe line com
panies operating in the state of Okla
homa engaged either in the purchase
or transportation of oil shall run the
oil production offered TO such pipe
lines without discrimination either a.
to amount or price, and that eac!
producer shall be afforded the sam,
facilities for the sale or transportation
of said producers oil that are offeret
! to any other producer; that if tn,
pipe line facilities of any compan,
engaged in the purchase or transpol
tation Of oil are insufficient TO carr
all the oil offered to it for sale o
transportation, that 1t shall carry rata
bly, in proportion TO the average pre-
duction offered by each producer; an
each pipe line company in the stat
Of Oklahoma engaged in the purchas
or transportation of oil shall purchas
or receive and run for each produce
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