Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-10-29
LOCATION A MASTER Stroke
PENNSYLVANIA CONCERN WILL
WORK FORCE OF $50 MEN
AT CAPACITY.
TO MAKE RAILWAY SUPPLIES
Three Shifts VIII Operate 2i Forges--
Dismantlcs at Once-iiolds Vast
Meaning for Community.

> In the signing of a contract yester-
day with the Union Forge & Chemical
company, of Lebanon, Pa, Charles
Tage made his master stroke In his
man of building a factory town at
Sand Springs seven miles west OF
Tulsa outside of a comparatively
few Industrial plants in Oklahoma
the coming of the Union Forge O.
Chemical company, which VIII be
known as the Sand Springs Iron u
Steel company. following its location
I'm this state, brings TO Tulsa and the
Southwest one of the largest manu-
factur'Lg concerns in oklahoma.
When the builder of Sand Springs
last 81 ring set aside bonus 1und
of $500 900 with which to induce rae
tories to locate there, there were
thosa who vlwed his move with finan-
clal criticism. But 1t did not take
loIp to prove otherwise. Nothing put
substantial deals were contemplated
and any prospective locator at SAND
Springs VINO could not demonstrate
stability was not given a hearing.
Opcration In Six Months Time
7 The location of the newest acqui-
sitlon at sand Springs is the largest
proposition ever undertaken by an
individual in Oklahoma, and there are
few municipalities which have been
fortunate enough to even entertain
sucn prospect. The company is to be-
Sin dismantling It's plant at Lebanon
within ten days from the signing oil
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ment on the freight cars within three
months time, and at the expiration
of a period of six months, is to set the
wheels of its new establishment TO
humming
Then for the first time within the
state will begin the manufacture OF
of railway supplies, including angle
bars spikes and nails, and structural
steel rods for reinforcing building,
and numerous kinds of structural
steel. What this will mean for Tulsa
as well as Sand Springs and THIS
community in general, may be seen
by viewing older communities which
have been favored in this respect for
years.
VIII Employ $50 Men.
Three shifts of men will be used in
operating the plant through the day
and night. A full operation calls into
use $50 men to each shift which ul-
timately means the working of 400
men by the Sand Springs Iron Steel
company. There will be two mills,
one with ten and one with fourteen
forges. The output is something Ike
twenty tons of finished product at the
close of each shifts work.
The total tonnage of the plant that
will be loaded on cars for shipment TO
Sand Springs, is about seven hundred
thousand pounds, The building INTO
which the concern is to locate is 10
he furnished free and arrangements
for cheap gas, water and electricity
have stipulations in the contract Inc
company will incorporate under the
laws of oklahoma with capital stock
of 500, 900.
Other Factories Located.
Among the other factories WEIGH
have been secured since the Inception
Of building up Sand Springs. are the
Nu-Flake Cereal company oil Lock
mort N. Y, which begins operation
next week; the II. f. Braymer Manu-
featuring company, which has been III
oneratlon for several months, the I'M
perlal Manufacturing company OF IN
dependence, Kan, makers OF Washihp
machines, which will shortly be run
ming: the Neodesha Bottling Works
with an $4,000 equipment. with al
eight and fourteen-ring plant; tht
Phoenix Refinery. manufacturing al
bv-products OF OIL with plant tha'
viii cost $4,000 to s9OOOoi a broom
factory. cotton gin, power plant, steam
laundry. canning factory, sawmili
foundry furniture Factory, sorghum
nlant. cie9r factory and candy and
cracker company are ready to close
deals to locate there.
This has been accomplished Sltnir
n few months time, or practically
since the real founding pf sano
Springs. which was begun the middle
Of last June. following the completion
of the Sand Springs interustan ral'
wav line and the building Of terrnin-
ole at Sand Springs.