Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-13
Continued from page oneD

*ozen very hard, which will create # earious delay in the digging work
 ho construction and operation of SA main to the Bossier fields will 1Fford in my opinion. the only relief & cight for Arkansas coDsumers.' # lack of Forosigilt Cause.
 MThc main in question is being con ss s,nltra out of secondhand pipe. Ebich has been taken up from ar old
 e live which has been abandoned.
 ao Possier line is said to have been
 ortcd in August, but the gas off als state that labor conditions & &unled with shortage in pipe and R;1roai facilities, prevented the con- f,ucticn of this line. However. if
 be pipe, which is now being laid, $ould have been taken up at this &n,c when the gas company officials " that car and pipe shortage *culd exist the main could have been b bnst,ucted in time for. the winter konfhs, according to investigators. fnd the gas shortage would in all kobahiity have not existed, as with Xhe c0nSLfuCtIOH t'iiu o}IGiftloh VI lhI {ossier line, the Arkansas Natural |as company will get sufficient gas l onerate their lines into this state to
 opacity. .-...,
 Tha Arkansas Natural Gas company
 bts most of it's supply from the Re- Arve Natural GAS company This lat
 r concern was organized with the lew of rendering assistance to its {reest stockholders, the Arkansas |atlrai Gas company. the Texas @o'n-
 ,nv and the Southwestern Gas and
 ,,e1 company These companies all
 ,lt their surplus supply into the lines i the Reserve Natural Gas company
 nd when either of the dompanief5
 beds an extra supply for the bene-
 of their customers it is taken from
 be reserve supply in the Reserve
 bmpany Under the present contract
 he Arkansas Natural Gas company
 ets about two-thirds of the surplus
 bpply of these comp panies. The pres
 nt delivery of the Reserve Natural
 las company is 35,000,O00 feet daily, kaking the supply being received
 hilv from this concern by the Alkan-
 bs Natural Gas company about 22,-'
 Do, ,0G0 feet daily. The amount of gas
 eceived daily from the wells of this
 Dncern in the old Caddo fields is bout 12,000,000 feet, making a total Ielivery of gas to the Arkansas cities
 { 34,OO0090 feet daily. The capacity 4 the present lines of the Arkansas Ratural Gas company is 45,0OO ,00o l
 bet, but the supply from the old fields
 gradually decreasing and the pres ure at this time is very low. Ii can ; lot be said just how long these wells yill continue to produce, as the life | a gas well is very uncertain. The formal pressure when the pipes are |arryine capacity load is 30G tounds, but the pumping stations Of his concern are now able to bring
 he <. present pres sure = up 10 -lo0 3oEnds When the proposed line to the Bossier fields is constructed and Ill Speration the same contract among he gas companies will be in force and he Arkansas Natural Gas company kill receive two-thirds of the reserve 3upply if if is necessary. Under this {sreement it will not be necessary to-
 SC all the reserve supply, according 10 the officials of the various gas Eompe nies. and there will be sutfi- lient fuel for all. the pipe lines of all De companies being operated to ca Racity However, that doesn't relieve Ihe present situation. as this line has Dot been completed and will not be- |ompleted, probably, until tie winter E over
 Say Relief Will Come Seen.
 1 Officials of the various companies ftated al the conference that they pave four wells, with combined ca Paclty of 32,000,000 feet daily, to Which they are now constructing a
 lN-inch main. They promised to have his main completed by the first part ff this week and this will afford some fellef to the present situation. How fver # is doubted that this line can pc completed by this time.
 | The Reserve Natural Gas company IS wholesale concern and supplies gas 10 retail concerns only, The Pout'iWestern Gas and Fuel company supplies Shreveport with gas and op- frates line from that city to Tex frkana. furnishing tliS cities along Fhls line. The Texas company op-