Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-12-07


day edition which was contributed los
John W Niece. and do,ling with m,
gas situation In Amarillo and the sur
rounding territory WIS accidentally
ommiitcd tn, News h r'puhlishlng m
article IN full About four paragraph.
a. the article were lcfi ont. and without
the part which was omitted the ariicl'
In question loses much ~ It's forrc W.
herewith reprint the entire article. both
for the information ~ our rpud,rs. and
in justice 20 Mr. Niece:
There has been n hue and cry raised
ny certain rcpres, NATIVE citizens and
In sundry newspaper articles that Am.
arillo's great gas field should b. pre-.
served and kept intact Tor postcrliy In
fact. heads are bowed and voices are
hushed when postcrity j. mentioned
90 far none 81 the high priests ~ con.
scryation have seen n; Ia onlighten the
general public NJ to who Is this wonder.
full postcrity that Is going 10 be- derive
the benefit 81 Amarillo's sacrifice.
.Saees and philosophers for ages have
informed us that opportunity does not
take up n permanent ahodc on our door.
step; but n. after giving few gentle
raps. Ia not heeded. II forever passes
On: ~ that whatever influence IL IL that
kids the citizenship % Amarillo into the
belief that they have an absolute mon.
opoly on this gas field Is an enemy Of
pubic welfare. 80
From the Gulf well on The extreme
east Ia the prairie's well near Chan.
ming on the extreme west is foriy.three
miles. width In center about fifteen
miles. giving a likely area u approx.
matsly six hundred square miles q gas
territory. 4 man who Is considered
one 81 the greatest gas engineers In
this country made the following state
ment tho other day There IL more
gas territory developed today In the
Amarillo district than all Of the com.
blnod gas resources known IN the states
q Kansas. oklahoma. Louisiana and
Tcyas. emitting ;hc Amarillo district
This has all been done In ahou, two
years of wildcat development and onl,
about a dozen wells. The average pro
duction 10 tbs producing wells now
drilling II about thirty million cubic feet
per day. II the six hundred square
miles q gas territory only averaged one
well 10 the quarter section. or four
wells 20 the secti0n. Din most every Eas
field have any knowledge q have
found three wells 90 each fc-tv acres
CT ~ wells 60 the scciionl and the wells !
averaged their present production i'
would give twentvfour hundred wells
with = gross daily production Of seven.
ty.two billion cubic feet per day. As In
good practice u i allowable 20 pull
from wells twenty-five per cent Il Their
gross production. this would give a pos
sible consumption q eighteen billion /
cubic fee, per day
Great Fuel Value.
Now dear reader. have sou any IDEA
of the s,upcnduous fuel value and en-
srgy 81 eighteen billion cubic feet ~
ras per day The thermal units In
hundred thousand feet q gas viii more
than equal that IN three tons II coal
bit AZ three tons per hundred thousand /
the eighteen billion cubic feet % ga-
would be equivalent 20 a daily output
% five hundred and forty thousand tons
q coal per day. or ten thousand car
isads of cal with more than fifty tens
70 the car. This amount u cars AMI
the equipment necessary 90 pun them
would make n train almost a hundred
niles In length. This amount q gas
production would annually equal IN fue
value the total annual coal production
- the states q Virginia. Kentucky.
Illinois. Ohio. Missouri and Indiana. OF
would equal the total annual production
Il bl;uminous coal mined In the United
States per annum prior 20 1909.
Now do the intelligent citizens 81
Amarillo believe that the Lone Star Gas
Company. with such gas hungry oities
a. Wichita Fails Fort Worth. and Dial
las will at down and help Amarillo
preserve this great gas field for poster
ny. when they have no more Compel.
tion than one eight inch line. Tn
Oklahoma Natural Gas Company also
occupies tho same position and has al.
ready had its scouts In the field.
The state ~ Oklahoma by iis eons;i.
tuition tried 10 m"nopolixe it, gas and
prevent II being piped across the state
line and was laughed TO scorn In the
higher courts The fact remains that
Amarillo has no more monopoly on this
r4s than has Panhandle. -. Francis.
Claiming or any other railroad point
adjacent 10 this field
There II another vital factor that
think IL being overlooked In this Dis
cussion: that Il. uniform rock pressure
In wells that are more than forty NH
apart. This means that the gas poals
are likely all connected and Il lite,allyI
one reservoir. and that the cit thti
can use the most gas will eventually
derive the most benefit. whether u j.
on one end Of the pool or the other IN
the commercial history ~ our c0''~
ily many a town has foundered on the
rock q the false assumption that PEG
city q Amarillo. II happens 90 -
where II Il because ~ the fact thai ssv.
eral railroads cross az this point and
they might have crossed miles either
way. as there was no great natural 90.
s,acie that would have prevented "
While know nothing q the early hi~.
tory u the town. feel sure you had
men Of vision who worked o. bring
these railroads here 10 make town ana
that Il was not handed 20 them on
silver platter. without effort On their
part. So far AS rail facilities are son
cerned. remember that spur could be-
run from Panhandle or Saint Francis
and give either place the saire rail con
ractions A. Amarillo. After Hll. ah0 j.