Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-02-26
All Factory Essentials
Center In City of Tulsa
heap Fuel Raw Materials Railway Facilities Labor and
Growing Market-Eyery Advantage Clusters Here
What Tulsa Has to Offer to Everyone.

Z toinlng benefit Of the 3-ccnt rate, de-
''iops his power at a cost Of less than
slOO per Il. Pa per year
The dominating Importance Of such
low cost power Is realized nc once
when VIC remember that water
power hydr5-eiechic formerly the
lowest cost rower on the continent,
cannot be had anywhere for less
than $3.50 per horse power per
year, and that It's average cost the
country over is S22 per II. =. per
year Tulsa's lowest gas rate affords
power at less than onc-slxth tho
/ chcnpcSt winter power rate In the
CnrOllnos or New England, and Ut
Tess tllan Onc-twcntS fourth the gem
lcr1l average cost OF water power.
Even greater Is tho advantage our
Factories have over coal-usirg COM
/ petltors.
Manufacturers are only lately
coming % realize the significance of
mis- condition Of things, Until quite
recently they were skeptscal. the
fi"nres seemed too good 10 be true,
| hut experience uniformity confirms
them, An interesting instance was
thnt Of F C kinney. the cottonsced
oil manufacturer Two years ago
Mr. Kinney came 81 Oklahoma to
erect an on mill I'm the southwestern
port Of the state on his way he
stopped OF tho train at Tulsa and,
after looking into conditions. was so
well pleased that he built his mill
here A1er one seasons operation
he found that his saving I'm fuel, by
the use Of natural gas under Tulsa
conditions, permitted him, II need he.
70 20 $50 miles from Tulsa for his
cotionsced, pay the market price for
~ ship Il 20 Tulsa, crush II and sell
the product ~ n better margin of
profit than could be realized by any
min I'm Oklahoma using coal for fuel.
Another prominent local manu-
focturor recently remarked 10 the
writer that. "Tr steam coal were laid
down on track at the plant ahso-
lutclv free or charge, the cxucnsc nf
h'ndling II from the car 10 the furn-
nee would exceed the cost OF natural
gas at current prices" Firemcn and
coal passers are displaced, and the
space formerly required for coal
storage and tracks is now available
for other uses
Unlike an other Industrial dis
tricts The atmosphere Of Tulsa is
not poisoned by smoke, SCOT and fog.
The manufacturer finds here all that
makes life worth living
churches, the best public and private
schools and colleges. daily news
papers, a city paved with asphalt and
brick, and owning It's parks, sewer
system and water plant Its people
ere served by electric street and
inter-urhan railways. the streets are
well lighted and shaded I'm summer
10y the natural forest trees. In fact,
this Is "A healthy. vigorously growing
city whose miles OF brick, concrete /
and granite business blocks and
thousands Of beautiful homes are the /
admiration OF the state
Within three hundred miles Of
Tulsa are four million consumers OF
everything required In the home, /
fern. factory and mine. Between
them and the eastern factory Is a |
gap OF time and distance that gives .
to the manufacturer located here all .
the advantages necessary TO success
one illustration: II was thought un- .