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from the wells. A number of private producers are disposing 
of their gas in this way. Other producers have contracts at a 
less price. Kansas now has more than 125 towns and cities 
using natural gas. A great majority of these use meters and 
pay at the rate of twenty-five cents per 1000 cubic feet, some 
even thirty cents. The Kansas Natural Gas Company is the 
largest retail dealer, but by no means the only one. The pipe- 
line of this company goes as far north as St. Joseph, Mo., tak- 
ing in the larger cities of St. Joseph, Atchison, Leavenworth, 
Lawrence, and Topeka, and also the smaller cities and towns 
between. A pipe-line also reaches Kansas City, which has an 
ageregate population of nearly 400,000, about two-thirds of 
whom are now using natural gas. Another pipe-line belonging 
to the Kansas Natural Gas Company is carried east from the 
gas-fields by way of Parsons, Oswego, Columbus, Pittsburg, and 
into the entire zinc-mining district of southeastern Kansas and 
southwestern Missouri, where the company has an aggregate 
sale at retail price of close to fifteen million dollars per year. 
A portion of this is sold at the rate of twenty-five cents per 
1000 cubic feet, but a much larger portion, that used for gen- 
erating power, is at the rate of ten cents per 1000 cubic feet. 
Another pipe-line is carried westward to Wichita and beyond, 
connecting with all the intermediate towns. If we reckon this 
gas and that consumed by the cement plants, smelters, brick- 
yards, and lesser manufacturing plants at three cents per 1000 
cubic feet, the total production from Kansas alone for 1907 
will have a value of between five and seven million dollars. 
Should it be estimated at the actual retail price, the total value 
would be very much greater, but here again the complexity is 
so great that this has not been attempted. The pipe-line com- 
panies make various rates to different factories, from less than 
ten cents upward, depending on the size of the factory and the 
particular kind of a bargain that may be made. Were the en- 
tire consumption paid for at specific rates, difficulties would 
not be so great. 
Natural Gas in Oklahoma.—But little gas has been marketed 
from Oklahoma except for local consumption. One small pipe- 
line was laid across the state line near Caney and a large 
amount of gas is being conducted through it and delivered to 
the pipe-lines of the Kansas Natural Gas Company. The Sec- 
retary of the Interior and the state of Oklahoma are making 
efforts to prevent any further transportation of gas out of the 
