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peka, Lawrence and Leavenworth before the close of 1905, and 
by February the pipes were in Atchison and St. Joseph, Mo. 
Certain difficulties regarding a franchise kept it out of Kansas 
City, Mo., until the autumn of 1906. By the close of 1905 also 
a pipe-line had extended eastward from the gas-fields to Joplin 
and Carthage, in Missouri, with laterals ramifying the entire 
Joplin mining region. During the summer of 1906 a pipe-line 
was carried westward from the gas-fields toward Wichita and 
Hutchinson and has just now reached the former city. All of 
these mains have laterals from which they supply the various 
towns and villages along their lines. 
To supply such large quantities of natural gas for domestic 
consumption it is necessary to have a large amount developed 
in the gas-fields. On this account drilling was fairly active in 
many different parts of the gas-fields of Kansas. The pipe-line 
reaching northward to Kansas City, etc., is supplied principally 
from the vicinities of Iola, Humboldt, Chanute, Neodesha and 
intervening locations; that eastward to the Joplin area is sup- 
plied from the Montgomery county fields in the vicinity of In- 
dependence and Coffeyville, and the supply for the western 
pipe-line will come principally from western Montgomery, 
Chautauqua and other counties in Kansas, and probably from 
the Cherokee and Osage country, although that matter is not 
definitely settled. It is reported that a prominent gas pro- 
ducer applied to the Secretary of the Interior for permission to 
pipe gas out of Indian Territory and was denied the privilege. 
There seems to be no law, however, to prevent such an under- 
taking. 
During 1906 the most extensive developments of gas were in 
Montgomery county, Kansas, south of Independence, and in 
the Cherokee Nation throughout a strip from five to ten miles 
wide, reaching from the south side of Kansas southward almost 
to the Arkansas river. In fact, gas has been developed in In- 
dian Territory to such an enormous extent in connection with 
oil development that the Cherokee and Osage territories prob- 
ably could supply two or three times as much gas as is devel- 
oped in Kansas. A great deal of this Territory gas is shut in 
awaiting a market, while other portions are piped to various 
towns and villages and retailed for domestic consumption. 
Practically no large manufacturing concerns are established 
south of the state line. This is due principally to the chaotic 
condition of land titles in Indian Territory. Different laws of 
