The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-05-16
CAS- IS ORDERED
. CONNECTED WITH
CH|CKAsHA LINE
Corporation Commission Issues Order
to Oklahoma Natural to supply
Gas to City Through Con-
Meeting Lines.
LOCAL COMPANY READY
TO MEET REQUIREMENT
100 Feet OF Pipe Yet to BE Laid;
Position Of Oklahoma Natural
Not Known: One Commits.
sloner offers Objection.

l lnfuufn uu oIutf isausu 1'nt'i
day afternoon by the Corporation
Commission. the Oklahoma Natural
Gas company was instructed TO con
meet gas with Chlckasha. through
the connecting line laid by the
chickasha Gas and Electric com
pany.
The action of the Corporation
Commission came as the result of
a petition filed by the Chlckasha
Gas and Electric company some
months ,ago and In which the city
of chickaaha and the Chamber of
Commerce of this city were inter.
Syenors. The order of the commits
sion names rate of % cents per
600 cubic feet, at the point of
connection with the Oklahoma Nat
ural line and was signed by Camp
bell Russell, chairman and e. Il.
Hughes, commissioner, with Art
Walker. commissioner. dissenting in
opinion with the other members.
The order of the commission,
points out facts concerning the loca-
tion of the Oklahoma Natural mains.
some -four and a half miles south
of Chickasha, that the mains OF the
Oklahoma Natural carry a supply of
natural gas from the Duncan field
for distribution, that there Is an
open flow from the wells in the Dun
can field of about 500,00O.0O0 cubic
feet n day of "a hours and that the
Chickasha Gas and Electric COM
pany, having laid connecting line
between the mains of the Oklahoma
Natural and the city of Chickasha,
has applied to the Oklahoma Nat
ural for connection.
In reciting the facts, the order
shows the testimony which was
taken at the hearing on the appli-
cation of the local company in De-
cember, showing that the connect
ing line was completed at cost
of $4,000 to the Chickasha Gas and
Electric company.
The testimony as recorded, de-
clares that the Oklahoma Natural
in October 1921, was connected with
wells in the Duncan field with an
open flow. capacity Of 514,36S,324
feet, of this amount there were
available from these wells, under
the statutes, total of 103,0OO,OO0
cubic feet, but that the Oklahoma
Natural was able to take and dis
pose of only 100000 cubic feet
from the Duncan field during the
month in question.
The order proper, which is to be-
come effective on May % requires
the Oklahoma Natural to permit the
Chidkasha Gas and Electric company
to connect its line with the mains
of the Oklahoma Natural at the
point south of Chickasha and that
the Oklahoma Natural be required
to furnish supply of natural gas
to Chickasha within "a hours from
the time the connection is made.
In his dissenting opinion, Commits
sioner Walker stated that he feared
that to order the Oklahoma Natural
to connect with Chickasha would
mean that the commission would be
required or expected to order Other
connections with every town max
ing application. He also feared,
in his opinion, that shortage OF
gas would be the result Of the con-
nection.
The attitude Of the Oklahoma
Natural Gas company with reference
to the order, or the policy the COM
pany will pursue is not known here.
However, it is known that the
Chickasha Gas and Electric COM
pany is in position to go ahead at
once with its part Of the program.
1t was stated by F. D. Shaffer, man.
ager, that the company has only
about 100 feet of pipe yet to lay to
make the line complete and effect
the connection. This, in the opin-
ion of Mr.. Shraffer, could be ac-
complished in very short time. 1t
would require, it is estimated, only
a matter of "a hours to get the pipe
to Chickasha and only a few hours
to lay the additional 100 feet of
pipe.
This will be done, it was learned,
immediately following a statement
by the Oklahoma Natural that that
company will comply with the order
of the corporation commission.