SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



servation issue, and their interest in natural gas seldom 

 went further than the rate charged them by the local 

 gas company for its consumption in their kitchen range. 



Today, however, you can meet men on almost any 

 street from Brownsville to Jacksonville who feel that 

 they have a financial stake in the oil and gas resources 

 of the Gulf Coast region. Conservation has become a 

 personal dollars-and-cents issue. The altruistic appeal 

 that the waste of these valuable reserves ought to be 

 prevented has become an active demand that these 

 natural raw materials be kept within state boundaries 

 and developed for the benefit of the homefolks. 



Just listen to a former Governor of Louisiana, talking 

 in Houston: 



"You people in Texas are to suffer the greatest blow. 

 Your gas fields will become the happy hunting ground 

 of the Eastern industrialists. There is pending an ap- 

 plication by the Reserve Pipeline Company to take 

 your South Texas gas. There is pending an application 

 by Hope Natural to take your North Texas gas. There 

 is pending a pipeline to California to take your West 

 Texas gas. The Big Inch and the Little Inch oil pipe- 

 lines would be converted to natural gas to deplete and 

 exhaust your East Texas fields. United Power & Light 

 Company would dip into the fields of the Southwest 

 to supply Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan with their 

 natural gas. The Republic of Mexico wants more of 



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