The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-11-22
CAS- INQUIRY Is
URGED IN REPORT
To kIWAN|S CLUB
Civic Organization Urges City coun-
ell TO Immediately Employ Ex.
Iort to Determine Cost Build.
Ing Distributing System.
MAY FOSTER MOVEMENT
FOR MUNICIPAL PLANT
Benefits chlckasha Would Derive
From Cheap Natural Gas Are
Pointed Out; Factories Would
Locate Here, They Say.

Report OF the clubs public af.
fairs committee urging the city ad-
mlnistration to Immediately employ
experts to determine the cost Of
establishing municipal natural gas
distributing system here. was unani-
mously adopted by the kiwanis club
at It's MONDAY luncheon Tuesday In
the Manhattan cafe.
This step was taken In connec.
tlon with the clubs movement TO
bring natural gas TO Chicliasha. Az.
ter advice OF the experts Is received
the club, II was announced, will I'M
mediately investigate the feasibility
of establishing a municipal distrib-
uting system and the building OF a
pipe Inc TO the Grady county field.
III the club reaches the conclu-
eion that the city would derive more
benefits from municipality owned
and controlled gas distributing sys-
TEN, the Kiwanis club will sponsor
a movement to call an election to
vote the pecessary bonds to build
the system said Moman ii. Shep-
ard, president of the club.
Support Of the club in the en-
deavor TO interest capital in nat
ural gas franchise here was pledged
to the city council.
Phases Of Movement Discussed.
Many phases of the movement
were discussed at the meeting OF
the Kiwanis club Tuesday. Whether
municipal control OF the system
would be practical and whether cor
porations or individuals could be In
duced to furnish the city with nat
ural gas at rates which would justify
its use for industrial purposes were
the questions discussed.
Chief among the objections to a
municipality owned system was that
it would be politically controlled and
that, as result, high standards of
efficiency might not be maintained.
Speakers subscribing to the idea,
however, pointed out that the city
could not realize its fullest benefits
from natural gas unless 1t could be
made available for industrial use;
that it probably would be difficult
to dispose Of q franchise to COR
poration or individual providing for
rates low enough to attract the in
dustrial world.
Factories Would Locate Here.
One speaker declared that many
new factories would locate here If
natural gas were available at rate
under which 1t would be practical
to use as fuel in industrial plants.
"Chickasha would soon be the in
dustrial center of the state II gas
could be had here at low rate"
this speaker declared, adding: This
city would grow In leaps and bounds
and would soon have population
of 5000" One speaker estimated
that $500 homes would be connect
ed with the system.
DR.. w. l.. Bonnell, chairman OF
the clubs public affairs committee,
stated in presenting the commit
tees report that he once lived in a
city of $4,000 which built pipe
line $50 miles to get its supply OF
gas. Within very short time, DR..
Bonnell said, this city's population
increased so per cent.
Several speakers asserted that If
the rate was above so cents natural
gas would be of very little advant-
age to the city; that it probably
would not materially increase the
city's population.
There's no question about it; a
municipal plant would pay for itself
in three years; we Should be using
natural gas now think we've
been 'fiddling while Rome burns,
said one Of the enthusiastic Kiwan
ians in discussing the committees
report.
In the course of the discussion
at the kiwanis meeting, it was sug
gested by one of the speakers tina
members of the club write to Chic
Justice John B. Harrison, Of the stat'
supreme court, urging the court tt
hand down decision in the Chick
asha gas case at the earliest possible
date. Referring to this suggestion
]. w. Conner, secretary of the Cham
ber of Commerce, said: Il thin
it is eminently proper for our pee
pie to convey their wishes to tn
court and it seems to me that
would be we'll for our citizens ger
orally to follow the suggestion whic
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