Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-11-13

and tracks is now available for other
uses.
Unlike all other industrial districts,
the atmosphere Of Tulsa is not pois-
oned by smoke, SCOT and fog. The
manufacturer finds here all that goes
toward making life worth living
beautiful churches, the best pubic
and private schools and colleges, daily
newspapers, a city paved with asphalt
and brick, and owning its parks, sew
e. system and water plant. Its peo--
pie are saved BY electric street and
intcrurban railways, the streets are
well lighted and shaded in summer
by the natural forest trees. In fact,
this is a healthy vigorously growing
city whose miles of brick, concrete
and granite business blocks and thou
sands of beautiful homes are the ad-
miration Of the state.
Wsthin three hundred miles Of 1ul-
50 are more than four million con-
sumers of everything required in the
home, farm, factory and mine. Be
tween them and the eastern factory
Is q gap OF time and distance that
gives TO the manufacturer located
here all the advantages necessary to
success. one Illustration: 1t was
thought until recently that cotton
mills, employing as they do in the
| south only the cheapest Of labor,
| could not be successfully operated in
Oklahoma with the higher priced la
Dor OF this state. Four years aso a
cordage mill was built in Guthrie as
test, and its annual dividends have
been greater than earned by the ay-
| eragc mill in New England or the
prQXimity 70 cotton field
and consumer more than taking care
of the higher price OF labor. II that
cordage mill. using coal for fuel, can
show such Il handsome profit, how
much better showing will a cotton
mill make here at Tulsa with gas
powe- at less than one-seyenth the
cost OF coal power?
Equally inviting are the advantages
that other industries viii enjoy when
established here, and the industrial
world is fast finding it out.
Ten years ago, when thirty-ona
cr than Tulsa, the aNowed purpose 10
build here a facto-y city was received
by her neighhors as n joke scarcelt
worthy Of notice. Since then Tulsa
has oyertakcn and passed thirty of
these scofiing ones and is rapidly
overhaulng the remaining one. The
Federal census shows that Tula's in
crease OF J 400 per cent In population
since 1900 exceeds in rate of increase
eye-y other incorporated city in the
United States. Tulsa is the factory
leader In Oklahoma. without dis
paraging any claims OF any other
community, let us not forget that
pulsa's advantages are so overshad-
owing that far-sighted manufacturers
come here for these advantages alone,
when other places would gladly sub
sidize them with bonus. our To-
cation ana resources bring the fac
tories: they in turn are making this
the Industrial center OF the state.
Many OF US forget that a single OIL
refining company at Tulsa. without
cent OF bonus, has expended about as
much In construction Of its mammoth
plant, more money than both the
packing houses recently acquired at
an enormous expense by Oklahoma
City.
No factory located fifty or one
hundred miles from gas. oil and coal
can meet the killing competition Of a
plant built In the heart of the field
at Tulsa. where Ave gas lines insure
an uninterrupted supply OF this bes,
Of all fuels. The Arkansas River, the
coal mines and oil wells OF Tulsa
county afford . vast reserve Of water