The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-04-13
chiekasha Gao and Electric Has
Engineer on Job: viii Cost
$4,000 10 Hook up
With Okla. Natural
GET READY IN EVENT
CONNECTION ORDERED
shaffcr Points Out No Price Quot.
cd from Oklahoma Natural;
No Retail Price Suggest.
ed; Await Action

In order TO be ready TO take ac
tlon to distribute natural gas Ia
consumers In Chickasha should the
negotiations between the Oklahoma
Natural end the Corporation com
mission result In n decision to con
meet this city with the mains Of the
oklahoma Natural which tap the
Duncan and Walters field. the
Chickasha Gas and Electric company
mas Joe McCreary, IN engineer on
tho job here figuring costs and max
ing estimates on connecting line
from this city to the main of the
Oklahoma Natural south Of Chick
asha.
+. d. Shaffer manager OF tho
Chickasha Gas and Electric com.
pany stated this morning that the
Oklahoma Natural had not made n
proposition TO the local company for
n connection and that as yet the
Corporation commission had not
seen fit TO issue an order for the
Oklahoma Natural to connect with
Chickasha, but that in order to de-
termine the cost to the local com
pany of connecting line. should
such order be issued and such CON
nection authorized, the engineer was
sent here to make a survey of the
requirements before natural gas
could be turned into the distribution
system of the local gas company.
Work Is Completed.
Mr. Shafer declared that the
work of making the survey and es-
timates is practically complete. The
figures. he states. show that an ex-
penditure of approximately $4,000
would be necessary to lay the neces-
sary lines and make improvements
that would care for natural gas dis
tribution in this city.
The plan on which these esti-
mates were based, the local mana
ger stated, was to lay a six inch
high pressure line from the south
ern city limits to the main of the
Oklahoma Natural south of the city.
In the event the plan is consumated,
he asid, the gas wouldbe carried
through this high pressure line to
the city limits, would then pass
through regulators into an eight
inch line. There would be, according
to plans, two of these eight inch
lines serving as general distributing
mains within the city limits and the
laterals would tap these lines for
their supply.
Use Present LateriaIs
Mr.. Shafter stated that the plans
the engineer had worked out, pro-
vided that the laterals now used for
the distribution of artificial gas by
the local company could be used
for the natural gas. This would BE-
made possible he said by the use
of the regulators at the points
where the six inch high pressure
line connected with the eight inch
city distribution lines. The pressure
i is estimated, would be but little
greater on the lateral than is car
ried through the distribution Of the
artificial gas, thereby enabling the
present distribution system to carry
the load
1t was the opinion of the local gas
That no order would be is
sued by the corporation commission
for the Oklahoma Natural to con
meet with Chickasha and no volrm-
tary move by the Oklahoma Natural
to that end, until the city. gas rate
question in Oklahoma City which af-
fects the Oklahoma Natural and
the Oklahoma Gas and Electric COM
pany is decided by the commission.
1--WE have no proposition said
Mr.. Shaffer. "Tnat is, we do not at
this time know what the gas would
cost us from the Oklahoma Natural
and we do not know what price we
could get for it in Chickasha. We
are simply making netsimate of
the necessary work that would have
to be done, in order to get an idea
of how much capital would be re-
quired to handle the proposition
should it be consumated.'