, 1922-01-05
DENVER PIPE Line TO TAP
RAwllNS GAS fields IN 1922
REPUBLICANS FORECAST FULFILLED BY ANNOUNCEMENT 0F
CoNS!RUC!!0N 0F A A0 Mile PIPE line FROM MAHONEY
DUNE, NURIH Of MWllNS, TO DENVER, BY Big new
YORK COMPANY. MSOMING co. own WELLS

Sixty-cent gas in Denver. in almost
unlimited quantities Is promised for
1922!
Plans have been perfected for the
construction of a pipe line from Lost
Soldier and Mahoney Dome oil fields
in Wyoming to Denver for the con-
veyance Of the natural gas found in
these fields to his city and all the
towns in Colorado north OF Denver.
The only detail to be completed be-
fore a large crew Of workmen starts
the construction OF the pipe line is
the signing Of a contract between the
New York gas company. the prospec-
tive builder of the line, and the Dem
YER Gas & Electric Light company
for the 8 OF its present gas distrib-
uting system. and this agreement, it
is predicted, will be signed in the
next few weeks.
Piping the ,almost inexhaustible
supply OF natural gas Of the Lost
Soldier, Mahoney Dome and other
Wyoming fields into Denver. and the
sale OF h gas at a figure within the
reach OF everybody. is bound to re-
suit In an unprecedented growth of
the city within the next few years.
With Denver's advantageous loca-
lions, predictions are freely made
that the availability Of natural gas
at a low price will result in the
establishment OF many new indus
tries in this city, with a correspond
ing increase In population. Denver,
1t is predicted will duplicate the
growth OF other cities which enjoy
the use OF natural gas.
At present, the price OF gas for
domestic purposes in Denver is 81 a
thousand cubic feet, less a S per cent
discount for payment within ten days.
Under the provisions of the fran
chtse the company is permitted to re-
tain only Is cents a thousand cubic
feet and Is required to pay into the
city treasury whatever is collected in
excess OF that figure.
The plans Of the New York Gas
company, a corporation controlled by
New York and wyoming capitalists,
provide for the construction of a ten
or ~twelve-inch pipeline first from the
Mahoney field, where there are To-
Gated the immense gas wells of the
Reasoning Oil company. Already
agreements have been entered into
by the two companies by which the
Reasoning company. controlled by H.
E. West and James B. Hazlett among
the biggest operators in Wyoming
and Kansas, have bound themselves
to furnish all the natural gas re-
CURED to provide Denver, Fort Col
Inns, Longmont, Loveland and other
northern Colorado cities hat wish to
be connected with the pipeline.
From $1,000 900 to $40, 200. 900
will be required for the construction
Of the 240 miles of pipeline from the
nearest Of the a wells and such
pumping station as may be required
to put the gas into this city at a
pressure sufficient to give the best OF
service in the remotest sections Of
the city. One OF the Kasoming wells
on the Mahoney Dome. thirty miles
from Rawlins produces gas at the |
rate of $4,000. 900 cubic feet every
twenty-four hours and this gas is
under a pressure. measurements
have shown, Of 900 pounds to the
square inch. This n we'll. after
having been afire for months. showed
no diminution of either volume or
pressure, indicating the immensely :
of The supply Of gas in this dome
alone.
Natural Supply is Unlimited
Reasoning Oil company alone today
is able to furnish something like To-
900 600 cubic feet of gas Il day. The
Ohio Oil company and the Producers
4 Refners company. operating in the
Lost Soldier and Mahoney dome
field. each has approximately the
same amount Of gas. none of which
is now utilized, though within the
next few days the Producers & Re
fiHers company expects to open a
pipeline from its gas wells to Casper.
The Lost Soldier and Mahoney
Dome fields are approximately twenty
miles long and the productive gas
sand extends the full length of the
fields. The Kasoming Oil company
controls something like 5000 acres
in these fields, assuring an unlimited
supply OF gas for years to come, and
should these domes be exhausted,
short extensions Of the pipe line to
the Buffalo basin and Sand Draw
field would make other immense
underground gas reservoirs avail
able.
Engineers who have been over the
-oute of the proposed pipe line have
reported that its construction is conf
pa ratively an easy task. Construct
lion does not offer any great diff
"ulties. All the way from the oil field
% Denver only about five miles Of
rock work would have to be done.
The balance is light work, easily ac-
complished. with ditching machines.
So easy Is the construction OF the
line that the engineers have reported
that the line can be put into opera
ton before next winter.
Compared with gas pipe lines in
other states. the line into Denver is
short. st. Joseph, NO., for instance,
Is now supplied with natural gas
from wells in Oklahoma and Texas.
more than four hundred miles away.