Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-26

OF guinness. fof III An' past '''NN NH
months much has been accomplished
IN Tulsa and she has gone far ahead
Of her competitors in the race for
municipal Supremacy
The industrial growth OF the city
during the present year has not been
retarded 10y the financial conditions
obtaining elsewhere over the conn-
try, or from the shortage Of crops
general over the country the past sea-
son.
Factory Development,
Factory and railroad Developments
have exceeded any year in the city's
history, as is indicated by the in
crease in factory employees from l,l75
at the close Of 1910 to 1854 on De-
cember /, 1911, In addition to which
725 people will find employment not
later than February !, 1912 in four
teen large factories and Industrial
plants now in course of construction.
The monthly payroll Of Tulsa's facto-
ries is S107,4S0, whic. win be in
creased $4,000 by these new insti-
tutlons.
The great oil refinery OF the Texas
company, costing S1,500O00 and re-
fning 5000 barrels of crude oil daily,
will be doubled in capacity during
1912. TLo factories now under con-
struction include the largest steel
rolling mill in the southwest, an iron
works, two machine mills, three feed
and cereal mills, n Portland cement
works, and plants for the manufacture
of automobiles, furniture, washing
machines soap and glass ware, and
1900 barrels daily capacity.
During 1911 Tulsa's wholesale dis
trict increased to forty-five wholesale
distributing and jobbing houses. em-
ploying $50 persons with monthly
payroll Of $21,9S0.
Railroad Progress.
The railroad development of the
closing year has been the most inn
portant this city has ever witnessed,
Tulsa raving been placed upon three
transcontinental routes TO the Paciflr
coast, namely: Southern Pacific
Frisco route between Chicago and Ell
Paso, Tex: Frisco-Santa Fe through
Los Angeles, and Midland Valley
Union Pacific through service between
New Orleans, Denver and Portland,
ore, by reason VI the completion OF
the extension Of the Midland Valley
from Arkansas City te Wichita.
Il Tulsa is unique i'm having three in.
dependent street railway and inter-
urban lines with twenty-eight miles
in operation; the sand Springs Inter.
urban the Tulsa Street halfway com.
pany and the Ck'dacnla. y TN rIac-
ton company The Sand Springs line
has completed twelve miles of new
track this year. and much of the
grading has been done between Tul-
sa, Red Fork, Taneha and Sapulpa'
The city lines have been extended TO
numerous parks, suburbs and outly.
ing factories
Secured Shops.
The long pending removal of the
Frisco division and shops to Tulsa is
taking place and the Frisco has pur-
chased seventy acres of land in West
Tulsa for the construction of twenty
, two side tracks, each a mile long,
with a capacity of 1850 freight cars
, daily. President c. B. Winchell of the
, Frisco has bought 100 feet OF Main
street business property adjoining
the present holdings Of Chairman II.
f. Yoakum of the executive board of
the Frisco lines.
Tulsa county leads the state III as
sessed values of its public service cor
B 49, 1e 4 :
, 100000.
/, Oil field development of the pres
ent year has made Tulsa the recog-
nized ell center of tn state, all -four
pipe line companies. three refineries
thirteen oil well supply firms, ,welvC
! machine shops and $50 Independent
1 oil producing companies being locat-
g ed here. The new pcrrym1n pool
! Flat Rock, Turkey Mountain and
I Usage oil field activities have added
. millions of value in the past ninety
{ days and promise to outrival the ia
nous Glenn pool. and bring the 1911
. production of Oklahoma oil fields fai
r above that of 1910, which was ST..
5 100000 barrels. or one seventh th'
= oil production of the entire wrold.
D Building Boom.
Building activities in the city ar,
3s per cent greater than last year
At present the magnificent ten-stor.
hotel building costing 100000 an'
the new s23S.OO0 court house. ant
numerous office and business block
are In course Of construction in Tulsa
y Contracts for nine miles more stree
paving have just been let which vii
give Tulsa a total of forty-three mile
Of asphalt. brick and macadam paw
= ing. Bonds for 100000 for goo'
= roads improvements have been vote
n and sold during the present year, an'
. work will start soon after January !
Il 1912. on 12S miles of. macadam cOun
\ try roads. Funds have also been pro
r vided for s2s0.OO0 worth Of sewe
g and water works extensions. viaducts
: subways and street improvements.
:. Postal receipts show an increas
i over 1910, the first eleven months o
;. 1911 exceeding the total receipts 70
Y last year. Bank clearings are in
n creasing at the rate Of 100000 |