The log cabin Democrat., 1921-01-24
CAzORT PROPOSES
 CITY GAS SUPPLY
WELL ALREADY PROVEN
Lack Only Gas Line From Alma to Supply Local Field-Little Rock
 Also Interested.

also solve the problem now faced by the capital city, in the opinion Of w.. A. Cazort of the firm of Durham X Company, who holds an option on the production of the big Cazort wells in that section Some hope that Con- way may soon have natural gas is supported in the situation in the Ca zort fields, where production of CO., 000,000 feet daily Is capped except two small contracts which bring the owner $6.000 per month. Nine prov en wells are in the Alma field.
 The situation, then, resolves itself into this: The production is already at Alma, and Little Rock as well as intervening towns and cities along the route are badly in need of gas facilities. A company formed for this purpose would have the supply and al so the field. lacking only the pipe line. Mr. Cazort and others who have looked into the project think that a company handling the sale of the gas would be able to earn back the or iginal investment within two years. The two small contracts now held by G. T. Cazort will expire in April
 Il believe Conway wants gas.' Mir. Cazort said. We now bring in coal from western Arkansas at fairly high expense, while gas would be much cheaper not to mention conven- fence. We have the opportunity to npt af half ho i,, Little Rock. My idea now is to mere ly tell the public of the situation as it actually is, and then see how much support can be enlisted"
 MT. Cazort's proposal for pipe line from Alma to Little Rock is also of first interest to Little Rock consum- CTS. Little Rocks gas supply is brought from the Caddo fields in Louisiana, and variable pressure is maintained through 12 months of the year at a rate which consumers con- slider eXorbitant. To pipe gas from Alma to Conway, Mr. Cazort said. would cost $1,500, 0,000, and the line from Alma to Little Rock would cost S1,75O,00, according to estimates al- ready furnished by construction firms.
 How the prospect of gas from Alma affects Little Rock is expressed in a statement published today in the Ar kansas Gazette by w. F. Bridewell. president of the Arkansas Gas Con- sumers Association. In part, it is as follows
 Tt is impossible. for industries un- der the present price of other fuels, such as coal and oil to burn gas at over 25 cents per 1000 cubic feet Our neighboring towns, Texarkana and Fort Smith, we understand, are burning gas at I2 cents and nine cents per 1000 cubic feet respectively. The Gas Consumers Association feels that the public should know and look into proven fields of our own state with the possibility of running at least one pipe line to Little Rock within the near future.
 "The association feels from the tes- timony presented by Samuel L. Wyer for the Arkansas Natural Gas Con- pany that the company is laboring under the impression that the only gas fields are in Louisiana when they speak of $1.50 gas and the fact that the industries must get off the gas line In order to conserve gas for the domestic consumers. The consumers association also understands Mr Wyer has testified that the gas line cannot survive without the industries, as about two-thirds of it's revenue comes from industries.
 "Our association has found that south of Fort Smith, at Alma, there IS large field with no sale of gas. W. A. Cazort of Conway has informed the association that he has been un- able to sell his gas, which is held in nine wells, and that if the people of Little Rock and the towns between Little Rock and Alma will unite in building gas line, sufficient gas is at hand to supply Conway, Morrilton, Plumerville, Atkins, Russellville, Lamar, Clarksville, Hartman, Coal Hill, Ozark, Mulberry, Little Rock and Memphis, at six and one-half cents per 1000 cubic feet, delivered into the pipe line. at the wells.
 Prom the figures compiled by our committee, we find that the proposed increase will amount to approximately S1 200 000 annually Mir. Wyer has testified that it would cost $1, 100000 to build a pipe line from he Fl Do rado fields. We nave figured he cost from the Alma fields to Little Rock at approximately $2,000O00, which is figured at high prices, and which, we understand, is the amount the line from Little Rock to Louisiana cost when it was built.
 According to these figures, the increased rate asked for would build 1 a gas line to either one of the two