[AT] Re: NAA Grader Blade - Instant gratification

[Cecil Bearden]

Sounds like some of my dealings with oil companies and pipeline 
companies.  Pipeline company sent out a real winner to buy right of way 
for a pipeline to go across my place down south towards Chickasha.  He 
wanted to split the farm because of a canyon and not wanting to go near 
a new house that was built with a huge horse barn...  It was about 3/4 
mile of right of way.  Then he wanted to pay $4400 for the privlege.   I 
had him meet with the other 4 neighbors and me together.  He did not 
know that was the way it was going to happen, but I worked it that way.  
Then when we were all together I told him that is was going to cost 
$10,000 per 1/4 mile and we would all decide where and how it was to be 
run..   He left and came back a week later offered $10,000 total, I told 
him where to go, and he has not been back.   They are still hauling oil 
from the wells..

Chesapeake energy is building a Boy's town 1/2 mile from me, and 
underwriting the entire 14million cost. 
 You cannot just farm.  If you have land, every corporation thinks it is 
to be used for the "public good" ..
End of rant...

Cecil in OKla

Francis Robinson wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Hey Farmer, if the governor has his way, it looks like you may be living
> next to a toll road around Indianapolis.  Whoopteedoo! Larry
>
>
>
> We have been watching that one pretty close... That is "supposed" to go
> about 4 miles north west of the farm. I hope it stays up there.
> They are also in the early stages of running a huge cross-country natural
> gas pipeline through just about the same distance south of the farm. They
> are building a local bypass right now (my road has been closed about a week)
> that will pass within a half mile of the north west corner of the farm. 1500
> houses are being constructed on both sides of that bypass and the Garst
> Seeds research farm I used to manage about a mile across the field from me
> is being dug up all over and will have 2 lakes and a herd of new houses.
> That is in addition to the 1500 new houses we already knew about. The new
> Honda plant going up about 15 - 16 miles southeast of us has construction
> crews working 24-7 ripping up 1200 acres of farm land. I now understand that
> a second plant is going up there next to it for another company that is a
> vendor for Honda. I spend a lot of time looking over my shoulder for fear of
> getting a house dropped on me, Wizard of OZ style, while I work. A railroad
> clips the corner of the farm that is on "the list" for an upgrade to a 150
> MPH line. God only knows where that will end up since they also are talking
> bypassing the city with it. Next to it is an old traction line right of way,
> which we acquired back some years ago, but it has a power company right of
> way on it that is still used. We have an old AT&T long line right of way
> across the farm and a few years ago they put a fiber optic line in next to
> it. Some years  ago they were set to run a huge feeder power line across the
> south end of the farm but they found a bunch of bad concrete in the nuclear
> plant they were building down on the Ohio and quit that one (for now).
> Another company wants to drill for natural gas on the farm but I'm balking
> over the wording that would also give them the right to drill for oil, dig
> for coal, copper, diamonds, chocolate chip cookies or anything else... They
> are also allowed to come in and buy rights then just resell them to anybody.
> No thanks.
> Remember back when you could just farm???
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>
> --
> "farmer"
>
> The brave may not live forever but the easily frightened may never live at
> all.
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
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