The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-03-06

Appeal Taken in GaS Case
After painstakng consideration the Oklahoma Natural Gas
Company has decided take appeal the Supreme Court
from the order Of the Corporation Commission directing refunds
gas bills Under all the circumstances we think proper to
make this public statement the people of Oklahoma City We
appeal because think right and the farmnded people
Of Oklahoma City will not take offnse because contend in
proper way for Of the right There gas shortage
We not responsible for this shortage In addition to the
fields previously reached by pipe line system built
line into the Morrison field last year cost Of approximately
$80O000 We under no legal obligation to do this. This
line did give a single customer was built at very
great expense and under every conceivable orr uy BY 1t we
added 20 600 600 to 2500O 600 cubic feet of available
day Still there inadequate supply caused by decline in
the fields previously supplying After referring to the evidence
relating to difficulties the Corporation Commission says:
"Thus viewing the situation in the light of the facts
as they and laying aside all bias arising account
ofunsasfacory service, the justice of the situation i'm
pelS the conclusion that the charge of negligence this
respect is unfounded and unreasonable"
Notwithstanding all the difficulties during December and
January furnished Oklahoma City the equivalent of about
of coal per day No could possibly have been fur
nshed We did best and not only best but the best that
could be done by anybody under all the circumstances This be
ing firmly believe that the which did deliver should
be paid for must be remembered that there suffering
from cold throughout the United States That the winter was
most and the fact that there less suffering Okla
homa City than great other cities which rely coal
During the codest days delivered the Oklahoma Gas
Electric Company the city gates at minimum of
pounds After that company receives the there loss its
distributing system Of approximately 20 percent all of which is
during 1917 for gas which delivered at Oklahoma City
873 This being true cannot stand 25 percent cut
The quality of the likewise good An analysis taken in
Oklahoma City last Saturday showed 966 heat units 1000
cubic while the standard requirement for artificial is
only $50 T. u 1t true that the Morrison is not rich
the Cushing Our tests at Morrison from 932 to 962 B.
T. u, while much of the Gushing gas tests above 1880
The probability is that we have passed the zenith of our nat
production and that winter from will create
demand which cannot be supplied With shortage of
probable every winter and consequent dmnuOn if
there should be likewise annual deduction account of de-
fency would be penaized dOubly for state of nature
wholly beyond our control.
The natural gas industry in the state reaching critical
state and when doing best feel that ought to
have the support and cooperation of the public.
Much has been said about absorption plants The fact that
before absorption plants invented dps provided the
lines order that the water and gasoline might drip out and
relieve the pipe lines from the obstruction to the and damage
to the joint The absorption plant therefore matter of con-
servaon and established fact that does not njre the
consumer but does protect the pipe line In fact in this
the Corporation Commission says: N
"All authorities contributing to the Information of
the Commission agree that the extraction of gasoline
from natural gas by the absorption process produces
uniform commodity for delivery to the public and
that in the absence of the application of Such or some
similar process, the amount of gasoline and moisture IN
transportation lines collects at the low points and
reduces the carrying capacity of the pipe and IN some
instances nearly if not wholly ObsUCts the passage
of gas"
In conclusion will that for the which we delivered to