Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-03-31
CEMENT PLANT TO
LOCATE IN TULSA
FIRST MEETING OF DlRECroHs
HELD YESTERDAY.
CAPITALIZED At 100000
City Gets Plant Largely Through Ef'
forts of our Ever Ready Com
mcrclm Club.


A cement plant for Tulsa Is soon
To be reality The Tulsa Portland
Cement corporation was granted a
charter Wednesday under the laws OF
Oklahoma, allowing them to do busl-
ness, on capital stock Of $500 ,OOO,
The directors are; IT, n, Crews, c.
F Tinglcy, L. r. Barnes, j. q. Nit
chcll j. w McLoud, q. n. Leonard,
II, c, Ashby, !. E. Crosblc and G. l.,
Hounker.
The directors held their first meet
INK yesterday aud elected II, r. Crews
as president, q, II. Leonard, vice pres
idons G t. Irounkcr az secretary
and treasurer ana l. r. Barnes as
general manager
The Tulsa Cement corporation was
organized largely through the efforts
Of the Commercial club. on July T.
1919 that body commenced ncgotin-
tions with the manager of the Mon
arch Portland cement plant at Hum.
boldL kans, one Of the best in the
state. Mr. Barnes was Interested in
the proposition .of the Tulsa Board Of
Trade, and has been here since, along
with associates, working out the plans
of organization
The Tulsa Portland Cement cor
porauon has already done some work
towards the erection of q one unit
plant at Lost city, a suburb of Tulsa.
This one unit plant In to be equipped
with rotary kiln and other necessary
machinery required to produce daily
output Of 500 10 200 barrels of the
finished product
The company has already acquired
2S0 acres Of land on the south sido NJ
the Arkansas River AZ Lost city Just
west Of Tulsa along the river This
/ land Is mderlaid with 30 feet Of car
Donate limestone and 40 feet of high
grade shale. This property is said
/ 20 bee the best In the state Of okla
homa, a tribute to the resources of
the surrounding country about Tulsa
and 70 be the state, In figures, there
Is about 20,90S.SOO tons Of lime
stone and 1876, 400 tons OF shale un.
dorlyng the property Of the Tulsa
cement corporation. This is practi-
cally an ineNhaustiblo supply Of raw
material,
The quality Of the raw material avail
I able for the manufacture OF cement al
Tulsa has been thoroughly cNamlneC
by eminent experts and chemists. anC
their reports have been uniformly fla
terlng one Of the features ~ th
raw material available to the Tulsi
plant is that II IL OF such nature tina
the manufactured cement win all b,
Of a uniform color.
one Of the most expensive and i'm
portant items IN the manufacture q
Portland cement IS fuel Tulsa Il
located IN tho center Of the gas belt
and there rs an abundance Of III,
very best fuel for making cenment I
requires from 300 to 1000 degree
Of FahrenhciI 60 manufacture ce
mont N1 fuel can supply the intcns
heat So readily and so chcaply as nat
,ural gas.
b In ease the gas should for som
unforeseen cause playuut, Tulsa ia II
tho heart of the % ana coal bell, an,
that class Of fuel Is available at
price that win knock any compoti
b tion Of comunt not made in Tulsa o
the Immediate vicinity
Lying on the banks Of The Arkan
sas River there Is an unlimited guam
tity of water available for the Tuls
cement concern, IN this matter Tuls
ie with probably one exception. IN
only city In the wide state Of Ohla
huma that can guarantee an mlimltc,
supply
However the most salient feature II
the location Of a cement plant n
Tulsa is that transportation facilitc
.are better here, than AT amy plan
in the Southwest,
The plant TO be built hy the Tua
Cement corporation ls 10 hr locate
ON tho s. " ~ W. Railroad, wit
connection 10 all tho railroads en-
t.ring Tulsa.
The plant rs TO he located wiDhi
'17O feet Of the railroad. and cVpong
win be at o minimum. On So far a
loading cars Is concerned. Much cS
pcnsl,e conveying machincr can %
done away with.
l.. e. Barnes, the manager of th
company said; 1--WE have been work
; Ing ON this proposition. hard for IN
O. last six months We have hern keep
b ing quiet about Il, not diule'nr any
thfuu Ipfu W. ppu1d tall tpUrtIhIp