Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-05-10
No TRADITIONS
TO BE OOTL|VED
sCNNT TIN YEARS AGO WAS THE
TiR~T DEED no FIRST LOT
~ THIS CITY ISSUED.
TULSA ONCE FORDINC PLACE
I,cp Primal Seed In Abundance
some of thc Thing- Which speak
Wen fr Present and Future

DE T Tucker Manager Information
HgrsauJ
lf happy is the community without
h.f,,p. Tulsa must De favored Of
.orlue. ms thirty thousand men and
women have all the embodied conf
irucr that builds q city IN a day.
They came from every ueighborhoOd
boz every state in the Union. They
bring every refining influence Of older
communities the best ideas. the tried
out wisdom u the ooutry. They find
here Ho traditions 90 bee oItliyed. no
soIaI caste o. be overcome. Every
one who comes 90 Tulsa is accepted
al bits own estimate until his own acts
give o. the he. II is passing strange
that such conditions give birth To
broader plans and more fruitful ef-
forts than are elsewhere possible.
scant ten years ago was issued the
first deed 20 the first lot in the town
~ Tulsa. Three-quarters % century
earlier the Greek and Cherokee plant
ers. led hy John Ross, a Massachusetts,
S.otehman. selected this district.
Rater-d and drained by the Arkansas.
Grand and Nerdlgris They brought
here their families. their slaves. their
.nattsls and took up its material de-
reiYpmeut
Began at Fording Place.
Tulsa began as an early day village
ar the ford of the Arkansas river.
soon .t was the market place FOR wide
o. scattered cattlemen and farmers.
Never court or an agency town, Tul-
sa growth has been the work Il its
own people Lacking the easy
money attractions Of payment days
ir agency towns Tulsa escaped the
vicious and criminal riffraff white,
black and red-aud early established
trc name of being wide awake town
OF hools churches and civic energy
The primal needs IF every city
food. water and fuel. are here in pro-
lor Forty miles of the Arkansas
river valley. in places fifteen miles
wide. traverse Tulsa county. This
richest corn. cotton and alfalfa land.
has never in so years been flooded by
the river. IT'S annual yield is astonish-
ing. Every acre Of alfalfa last season
In Tulsa county cut at least $50 worth
OF hay. a few reaching $50 per acre.
40 farmer IS more than seven miles
from a railroad station.
SIX hundred and sixty seven thOus-
and dollars has been provided for
good roads improvement In Tulsa
county.
The county assessment Is &44,3l7,lS0
and the tax rate eleven mills.
Eighty thousand acres OF hard BIZ
umlnous coal underlie Tulsa county,
900 tons per day being mined and
shipped IN season.
What OIL Business Means.
One-f fourth the crude petroleum ~
the United States and one-seventh the
entire worlds supply Is produced
within a 50-mlle radius OF Tulsa.
Professor Gould. former state geolo-
gist. states that not one-fiftieth Of our
OH territory has as yet been drilled
up
an on pipe lines. refineries and
principal producers maintain their
Oklahoma headquarters in Tulsa.
Twenty-four million dollars was
paid out IN Tulsa in 1911 TO oklahoma
OH producers year promises
10000. 900.
Tulsa is the state natural gas head
quarters, with five gas lines leading
into this city from the surrounding
field. For domestic use natural "a =
costs 16c and 20c per 1000 feet. for
factories &c down to Sc per 1000 feet
Tulsa's 140 mills, shops and factor
les employ nearly 200 persons. Nearly