The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-28
OKLAHOMA NATURAL GAS
CASE Is RE-0PENED

Oklahoma City, March 2S.-The Okla
homa corporation commission has serv-
ed notice on the mayors. city attorneys
and officials Of the chambers of COM
merce of 81 Oklahoma cities and towns
furnished directly or indirectly with
natural gas by the Oklahoma Natural
Gas company. that the case in which
the Oklahoma Natural Gas company in
August 1920 asked the corporation COM
mission TO make valuation OF its prop
erty and fix a fiat rate for gas at the
city gate or border of each city or town,
will be re-opened and additional evi-
dence will be taken at a hearing at Ok
lahoma City at 10 a. m, March 81
II was in connection with this case
that the corporation commission. on
December 90, 1920, issued an ORDER
granting the Oklahoma Natural and the
distributing companies handling its gas
authority to put in effect an increase
of 10 cents per thousand cubic feet for
gas to consumers for the purpose Of
creating a special fund to be used only
by the company under direction of the
commission for extending lines and
building compressor stations. The stato
supreme court on February I. 1921,
held that this order was invalid, as the
commission had no right to grant an
increase for the purpose of creating
special fund. The court however, did
net pass on the right OF the commission
10 fix a city gate rate except to hold
that the commission has authority un-
der the constitution to fix rates but not
for the special purpose named in the
order.
The commission announces that on
March 81. 1t will hear evidence particu-
II. ID. Hancock of Bartesville a gas
engineer employed by the commission
10 make tests in connection with this
case relative to the leakage Of gas at
Muskogee and Wagner. reports that
there is a total annual loss of gas per
mile Of three-inch pipe of 1894, 900 Gu
bic feet in the lines of the Muskogee
Gas ani Electric company at Muskogee
and loss Of 3,5O5 900 cubic feet per
year per mile Of three-inch pipe in the
lines Of the Oklahoma Gas Company
serving the Muskogee distributing COM
pany.
During a former hearing on the case
Samuel Wyer. Of Columbus. Ohio. fam
Gus gas engineer testified that $780,
600 worth of natural gas was lost each
year through Leakage and waste in
transmission to the consumers at Tulsa
and that an additional s3,750.0 900 worth
of gas was wasted each year by the
domestic consumers of Tulsa making
total annual waste Of natural gas In
that city of more than $4,000 600 or
enough to build ten big office structures
Ike the Cosden building every year
The Oklahoma Natural Gas Company
contends that it should not be forced
to bear the loss from leakage Of lines
of local distributing companies but
should received a fixed rate at the city
border.
This is one Of the most important
cases that has come before the corpora-
tion commission In months and affects
the cities and towns of Oklahoma City. !
FL Reno, Enid Guthrie. Muskogee.
Wagner, Tulsa, Chandler. Pond Creek. |
Claremore, Yukon. Red Fork. Turley. !
Dawson. stroud Wellston. Davenport. !
Luther, Edmond Meeker. Arcadia. Kel- !
leyville, Midlothian. Nardin. Deer Creek. |
Depew, Hunter, Lamont, Packham.
lnola, Porter, Ramona, Haskell, Coweta.
shamrock, Sapulna. and Caney.