Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-26
for its utilization in Shelby, only six
miles away.
Shelby Votes Franchise

Shelby Votes franchise
Accordingly William A. Baehr,
| president of the Great Falls Gas com
pany, with his associates in the east,
organized and financed the Great
Northern Utilities company for the
purpose of distributing natural gas
through Shelby and for the developing
and distributing of electricity for light
ing and power.
On November Z the property owners
of Shelby voted a franchise TO f. 2.
Williams, Of Chicago, the banking
representative of the Great Northern
Utilities company, for the gas and
electric utility in Shelby.
A contract was Their made with the
Ohio Oil company under which the
utilities company will purchase gas in
ample quantities to care for the town
Of Shelby, estimated at $4,000 cubic
feet a day under maximum load.
The Ohio company has already Sc
cured right of way for it's pipe line
from the well to the outskirts of Shell
by. This will consist of siX-inch pipe
and it is expected it will be laid and
in readiness for delivery before the
utilities company completes its dis
tributing plant in the town. The cost
of this feed line will be about $4,000.
Build Electric Power Plant
Surveys for the distributing system
have been completed, the pipe has been
shipped and is expected to be delivered
in Shelby within the next day or two.
For the distributing system about four
miles of finch pipe will be laid at n
depth of three feet. The pipes will
be welded together and the plant is
expected to be finished by the first
part of January. All openings will
be metered.
Work has already been commenced
upon the erection of the electric
power plant to be installed under the
franchise granted to the utilities COM
pany, which will take over the exist
ing system and will completely rebuild
It. A building of brick and steel,
7ox40, is being erected in James A.
be installed a modern steam plant,
ample to develop power sufficient to
carry any load Shelby can be ex-
pected to offer within the next five
years. Gas will be used for fuel.
The Great Northern railway is build
ing a spur to the site of the power
plant and it is expected to have the
system completed by February /. The
cost of the gas and electric plants
will approximate $4,000. All this
work is under the direction Of T. ID.
Fletcher. manager of the Great Falls
Gas company.
While Ii has been strongly intimated
that the Great Falls Gas company or
the Ohio Oil company, or the two act
ing together, were planning the laying
Of a pipe line from the Kevin-Sunburst
field to this city for the marketing
here of the gas of that field. no steps
in that direction will be taken until
further development demonstrates the
existence Of a sufficient supply which
will be of such permanency as to justify
the investment.
Anticipate Immense Body of Gas
II is estimated that for domestic and
Industrial purposes 100000 feet of
gas a day will be required to supply
Great Falls and that to carry such a
supply from the wells TO this city a
16-inch main will be needed. The cost
Of such a line. including the pumping
stations which will be needed to carry
gas such a distance fro mthe wells is
expected to run up very close to
$4,000, 000.