Volume 13 , Issue 4

5 January 1907 - The Guthrie Daily Leader

Back on 5 January 1907, on the front page of The Guthrie Daily Leader, Guthrie, Oklahoma was the headline, Oklahoma Gas for Oklahoma. The sub-headlines read: "Home Producers of the Article Ask That It Stay Here" and "Will Be of Great Benefit."

The article reads as follows, "The campaign for Oklahoma gas for Oklahoma was renewed here today by the gas men of the twin territories meeting and appointing a committee to confer with the delegates of the convention in view of getting a clause placed in the constitution forbidding the piping of gas out of the new state.

"In regard to the movement and its object, E. T. Tucker, secretary of the Tulsa commercial club, said: "The fuel question in Oklahoma is of first importance, and natural gas, where it can be found, is the most convenient fuel. The gas field in the new state is more extensive than any other field in the world, and gives promise of being the most productive.

"Every city of any size within 150 miles of the field, either to the east or the west, in Greater Oklahoma, is laying plans to secure pipe lines in order to bobtail a supply of this natural fuel for domestic and industrial use. If the gas supply is conserved, these plans can be carried out and the cities will have natural gas for many years to come. Yet, outside influences, chiefly in Kansas city and St. Louis, and the Kansas Gas company, and others, are making every effort to secure control of all the gas acreage in the new state to supply pipe lines to Missouri and Mississippi river points and to supply towns in Kansas and Missouri along the line. If this is permitted by the people of Oklahoma it means that others will secure practically all the benefits of our natural gas supply, and in a few years we will be without any."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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