Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-11-05
First Steel Mill in Southwest Now Located at Sand Springs
Stability the Watch1VOrd
OF Sand Springs CROWN

Perhaps one of the most striking
things to be seen along with the
splendid growth which has 80 far
characterized the upbuildmg OF Sand
Springs. Is tho confidence held forth
for the future of the town lying al
most upon the border of Tulsa. And
this faith and belief is just about as
deep-seated heer in Tulsa as is the
belief in schools, and government and
homes, and it is probably almost as
universal
A stranger coming INTO Tulsa can
not long be here until he hears some
thing about Sand Springs. lie may
see some evidence of such place be-
fore he has been in Tulsa even ten
minutes, for when he walks into a
restaurant to get his meal, or into
the drug store TO buy hot lemonade,
or drops in at a moving picture show
to enjoy himself, he will see that his
glass Of water at the restaurant Is
drawn from a big bottle of Sand
Springs water; his lemonade is made
with Sand Springs water, and If he
gets thirsty while he Is watching the
man OF the house be beaten by his
wlfe--on the screen--he won't find
anything to drink except that limpid
extract from the bosom of Mother Ma.
ture, Sand Springs water, as refresh
ing as malmsey from the Maderias.
Yet even before he reaches Tulsa he
may have gained knowledge of this
wonderful little town, for the Katy
railway stretches through 1t. and II
one be not asleep in passing, there
will be question after question put on
account of the dissimilarity of sand
Springs from other small places scat
tered in dots here and there along
the railways Of the southwest.
When a Stranger Comes.
Just dropping into Tulsa. the stran-
ger will ask, after having heard of
Sand Springs. Where is 1t? Any way
to get out there" His Informant
ANYBODY in Tulsa-knows all about
II. Then come a series of exclama-
tions and questions and declarations:
mo! Is that fact! That's pretty
nice, isn't it? | believe III go out and
look 1t over. 1t certainly sounds all
right. Looks like 1t should be good
proposjtion--when can a fellow catch
the next carr"
1t usually takes a fellow as long rs
ten or fifteen minutes before he be-
gins to inquire about the car service
to Sand Springs
IL Begins to Look Busy.
After having received his bearings
from his informant. 1t is but few
minutes walk or street car ride untn
he finds himself at the Tulsa ter
minal Of the Sand Springs Interurban
Railway COMPANY station which.
from the general appearance of youth
and newness, but clogged with the
business activities of age, seems al
most as incongruous as looking at
q man with whiskers clad In knicker-
bockers and going barefooted. The
big and heavy motor car is perhaps
Just rounding the curve below the sta
ton with its load of business men
and laborers, or 1t may be coming to-
ward Tulsa two or three miles out
In the meantime he surveys his sur
roundings.
Noise and Kissing steam is apt to
attract his attention to the back side
OF the station, where he will find a
string of box cars and flat cars, all
with as. S. ]. r." painted on them.
and hooked to a Sand Springs Inter
urban railway engine. Through the
open doorways he will see kegs OF
nails and bags of cement tons of one
kind of building material and then
tonso another kind. There may be
lumber on tho flat cars, or there may
be mass of iron wheels. beams and
shafts-parts of factory apparatus
all headed for Sand Springs Four or
five switching tracks, their conjunc-
tion with the Frisco tracks, turn
table, crowd of eXpectant passen-
gers and other surroundings, turn the
aspect into one of a typical depot
scene.
Along the Railway.
The interurban car comes driving
around the curve, unloads its passen-
gers, and is again filled, the stranger,
sure to be one of the first to get
aboard. because the ones who are not
able to get a seat have to do the
usual next best thing. The motors
whir, and the elegantly appointed
type of modern method of travel
glldes down the rails. The accentua-