The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1951-01-26
Editorials
.ee41e, Sorry Story: Conclusion

II editorials published the past two weeks this news
paper hes pointed what it believes to be facts
ing the use of our states great and comparatively
source oi oil and gas.
Ialse. briefly,
rs matters now stand Mississippi will gain little from
the exT citation of these in the of
indus.r directly stemming from them. Therefore. Mis-
sssppa- IS will be denied jobs in heavy hghwage lev
ell industries normally drawn to where oil and natur-
al gas available
sepp badly needs such industries, and Mississip
plans need the jobs.
1t is sad but indsputable fact that annually many of
mot able young people seek skilled jobs in other
states because they not available in Mississippi It is
and of talent and ability that we can more afford
than u. export of our raw resources.
Hel,e are some of the facts we face:
Co Oil Co. is planning pipeline into Mobile that
will expo through that Alabama port large part of Mis-
sissipr.s o i production
Tbs product will create jobsin other states and
probab result in refining facilities and allied industries,
at Noble It some future date.
We qll supply the material. buy back the refined
produc 4 between those points lie the real economic
benefits CT which will get
United Gas Pipeline tells us that they can't supply
heavy industries in Mississippi with natural gas at rate
cheap IS that in Texas or possibly Louisiana.
tt despite the fact that they pay for the gas in
those s. land higher state taxes) than in Mississippi
We told that Mississippi benefits from gas produc
on those states because it has imported far gas
from III than produced
Atcraged over "a years (gas first discovered in
Mississfh in 1926 that is probably true According to
statements by United Gas officials it isn't true Last
year, riding to these statements Mississippi had fav
orable O. ort balance of several billion cubic feet That
means Mississippi produced gas than she used and
the balance pped out of the state.
In osana United Gas pays a one-cent per thousand
feet fu,a ing tax, and three mill That
adds u, TO 12 mills
In Mississippi they pay six percent of the we'll head
vhea averages less than five mills On the basis of
one that they gain eight mills for every 1000
cubic tec of gas produced in Mississippi that Louis
lana
IN most instances, they pay 10 cents per 1000 cubic
feet for vas at the we'll head in Louisiana.
In Mississippi United has 20-year contract for the
major o lion of present gas wehead leases For the first
five yeas of this they will pay n2 cents For
the nett live years eight cents with the price for the
manirg 10 years to be negotiated These contracts as
.der Il it, only three years oldhave II years
piled Is pipelines tapping Louisiana and possibly Texas
fields il also true that Mississippi gas is being piped
other states offsetting factor.
ore line from the Baskerville field to Mobile and
Pensaco has capacity of 100milon cubic feet daily
Mary of these pipelines from Louisiana into Mississp-
p built before gas discovered in Mississippi
Louisianqs gas production dates back believe 1902
-Texas before that No with sense expects
United to junk these lines in order Mississippi
with ississippi gas.
If i. IS more economically feasible to pipe Mississippi
gas to ether states and with Louisiana Texas
gas ore is going to object,
Tav,,ver. believe Mssssippians have every right