Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-01-27
PARK SYSTEM IN
Need Of funds
BOARD PRESIDENT STATES $780,
OOO IS WANTED.
What HAS been done
CITY Has Three Parks Totaling 40
ACrS--OwCn Park and Somo
Ideas of IL.

Inh tne punllC pAlN e9'N'" W
Tulsa should have working capital
Of $4,000 was the statement Of VIII
Lynch. president of the Tulsa park
board, yesterday
1t was good move when Tulsa
voted a S26, 900 bond issue year ago
last June TO devote TO system OF
public parks" said Mr.. Lynch u
believe that eydry dollar expended
was stretched just as far AZ II would
go and still do full duty" continued
tho park board president But we
now have working capital Of about
$500. and this must do us until the
end Of the fiscal year. the last of next
June"
Since the Inception Of the public
park system OF Tulsa, there has been
something like $3S,000 devoted for
this purpose. The greater part Of
this money was required to get the
first essential of public parks-land.
The bond issue voted was $4,000.
Last year the park fund received one
mill OF the total taxation Of tho city,
or about $4,000 This year fiscally,
tho benefit to the fund was cut down
to oue-half mill. and the park board
was given the sum of S5,O50 to carry
out its work,
or thetotal amount that has gone
into the Tulsa park fund there Is
about t3,5OO on hand at the present
time The first Investment made by
] 4 4. ..ft a.,
| ing what is now owen Park, twenty
seven acres Ideally situated In the
northwest park Of Tulsa For this
was paid t13,500. Another Investment
was that made In the purchase Of
Central Park. containing about 10
acres. lying at the east end Of Sixth
street. and another admirable loca-
tlon for an accessible beauty place,
/ For thls plot Of land the park board
paid $500. Following that, the
board purchased 80 acres outside the
present city limits, lying adjoining
Orcutt Lake For this they paid S3,-
600. and chrlstened tho place Wood
ard Park For natural beauty 1t Is
probably the grondest Of any Of the
three parks but up to this time II has
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