Letter from Frank Wayland Higgins to Theodore Roosevelt
Governor Higgins writes to President Roosevelt that his friend, Theodore N. Barnsdall of the Kansas Natural Gas Company, would like to build a pipeline to St. Louis to supply its residents with natural gas. Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock has asked that Barnsdall install a meter on the wells so that a percentage of the receipts can be paid to the Cherokees, on whose land the wells are located. Higgins writes that this will be too expensive and a fixed rate should be paid instead.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-05-10