Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-10
oIL MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Kan. & Okla. .S2.00
Healdton l.20
Gushing lT.Aa.
The Gas Situation.

The cold snap came about four days
too soon and had il held off for week
there would have been no shortage OF
gas. The line connecting the Morrison
field with the main line from Tulsa
10 Oklahoma City lacks 5000 feet Of
being completed and the pipe line
gang has quit. There were few Of
the men working Saturday, but none
yesterday and the company has sent \
sang of old-tlmers from Tulsa to the
field and they will be laying pipe
again today.
The shortage of pipe and the lack
of cars is primarily responsible 70:
the delay In getting a line in, as IL
should in all fairness be stated ones
more that this pipe was ordered last
ing. When it appeared that II was
going 10 arrive, the gas company
TOOK w nine miles of 10-inch pipe be-
tween Shamrock and Depew AMI
shipped same to the Morrison line but
tho cold weather beat them to it.
Hereafter the gas company might as
we'll figure that December l is the be-
ginning of winter and not January /,
in this neck of the woods. There were
four days of the same kind of weather
early or earlier than this some five or
six years ago when Denny Hastings
was alive, and II was up to him to
stand the brunt of all public indisna-
tion, and for the three nights that
were cold he was on the Job without
rest and was much worried because OF
his inability to furnish gas Mr.. Hast
ings complained that everybody in
Tulsa was burning gas in the gas jets
as well as ir the stoves, which made IL
all the more difficult for MIN to get
gas into the mains in the lower end
OF town.
Since then larger feed pipies have
been laid and all that is lacking Is q
sufficient supply of gas and everything
will be lovely. The gas company Is
calling every bet and is Offering TO
buy gas from anyone who has q word
TO say about having gas 10 sell and s
for instance, hooking or TO some OF
the wells owned by the Boynton Gas
company who advertise In the Phoe-
nix at Muskogee that they had gas Tor
sale.
Several officials of the company
have announced that hereafter bet
ter price will be paid for gas at tho
well, which is in fact the. main thing
and which will go further to relieve
the situation than anything else. 1t
looks unreasonable to expect men to
drill for gas and sell the output for
2ls or cents'in these days when pipe
Is at a prohibitive figure. The price
has been raised in Tulsa TO consumers
and people are willing to pay good
prices but demand good service.
Usage has failed to supply any,
INK the way of gas, and the Usage
4 Oklahoma is paying for 100000
feet per day, and only getting 2,000,-
600 feet. This Is because some of the
gas people were shortsighted enough
to offer cents royalty 10 the Osages
md agree to pay for 100000 feet
per day and have so far failed signally
to get gas enough to break even.
The srelter people have thrown up
their hands and pulled ont after drill
ing n number of wells near PawhusSa,
and another gas company Is paying
$4,000 per month without getting n
foot of gas.
The mudding-in process is also re-
lsponsible for a lot of this trouble, as
III was held by the corporation com
mission to be the only method by |
which gas could be conserved and the |
|employes of said commission have in |
sisted at all times that gas could be
|mudded in instead of being braden-
headed. 1t is system Of conservation |
that has failed to conserve, and more |
Than that, II has caused the owners |
'Of mighty valuable pipe which is
frozen in and cannot be recovered |
The system should be discarded AL
once and operators allowed to go |
Iback to the old system of bradenhead- |
|ing at once. The advocates of the !
mudding-in process have always
claimed that, while a we'll that is
rmudded in cannot be brought back,
'pther wells could be drilled to the gas |
6and and thus the gas would be con-
Served. That Is found to be untrue, |
land for this reason: The powerful |
pumps used in mudding-in n we'll fire.
,quently push the mud a distance Of
Foo feet in the gas sand and over in |
fhe Blackwell field II occurred re-
fently that an offset we'll was shut off |
Entirely by mud being pumped into an |
hdjoining hole. This being the case,
fhe man who drilled a second well es-
pecially for gas would find that his gas |