For the purpose of acquiring necessary right-of-way, every such person is hereby granted the right of condemnation by eminent domain, and in the use of the highways in this state, for the purpose of transporting natural gas by pipelines, and the location, laying, constructing, maintaining and operations thereof.
Added by Laws 1913, c. 99, p. 167, § 2, emerg. eff. March 26, 1913.