Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-06-22
REMARK ABLE FIGURES OF TUL-
SA'S GROWTH TOLD IN
COLD FIGURES.
TRADE TERRITORY BEST
Leaving Out OH, Tulsa Has More to
Build u City on Than Any Other
Oklahoma Town.
(BY T.. T. TUCKER.)

building here. one firm named a
nearby town as its former location:
two are from Muskogee, and two
from oklahoma city. Asked why he.
a stranger came 70 Tulsa to build up
new trade rather than stay where
he was already established, the first
one said emphatically, Because Tul-
50 looks good TO me" The same
reason was given by each Of the
others, Tulsa looks good, it's the
best city in oklahoma"
When leyel-headed men leave two
cities such as these to become resi-
dents Of Tulsa, and we find that doz-
= ems Of others have done likewise
within the year there must be cause
for their coming.
Is Tulsa really the best city in the
state Of Oklahoma?
IT is 50 easy to delude ourselves, so
natural to accept only what confirms
our own belief, that the safe plan Is,
Wherever possible to obtain the opin-
ZION of the disinterested observer.
n The Y. s. census bureau reports
ftbat the population of oklahoma in
creased from 79O,391 in 1900 to
1.657l55 in 1910; while Tulsa grew
from 1890 people in 1900 to 1928
in 1907, and 1882 in 1910. This
J 1900 per cent gain during the decade
, exceeded In rate Of growth every
,other incorporated town and city in
the United States.
Today Oklahoma's population Is
estimated at 100000; and Tulsa,
with $500 new homes added since
the census date in 1910, nearly If not
quite doubling in size now has above
$4,000 population.
Will this growth continue? That's
the question. We know, Off hand,
that northeastern Oklahoma is today
the greatest natural gas field in the
world. We know that here was pro-
duced 81 .0O0,0 900 barrels OF crude pc
troleum last year that sold for
, s32, 900, 900. This was one-fourth the
crude oil Of the United States and
onc-seventh the production OF the
wcrd Its ratio In use value was
even higher, as oklahoma oil sup
plies more than one-fourth the entire
worlds consumption of kerosene,
. gasoline and naptha. If this We're all
.reflned in this state it's market price
would exceed in value the total pres
ent production of all Oklahoma's s
farms. forests factories and mines.
While these facts are well known,
they are, to most Of us, so nearly
the only known resource figures. that
there is sometimes heard the hint OF a
fear that, should oklahoma oi and
gas even pay out, the growth Of our
towns and cities would stop.
Fortunately for us, the Oklahoma
Department Of Agriculture. the L. s.
Geological Survey. and the Bureau OF
Statistics of the L. S. department OF
Agriculture have other information.
They tell us that, last year, the fac
tory products of northeastern Okla
homa were double the value of the
oil produced.
That the coal and lumber of East
ern Oklahoma brought half as much
money as did its crude oil;
That the coal reserve of Eastern
underies 10000 square
miles. and will reach the enormous
total of 5000, 900, 600 tons.
This explains why long headed
manufacturers are locating here, sat
isfied to utilize natural gas as long as
it lasts. prepared then to go to coal
without having to remove their plants
to another field.
But the greatest surprise, perhaps.
Of all is this: they tell us that Tulsa 8
natural trade territory last year
yielded s66. 900, 600 of farm products.
or more than twice the value OF all
our crude oil; and that the farm In
dustry OF Eastern Oklahoma Is yet In
its infancy
The u s. Department of Agricul-
ture. In It's analysis of Oklahoma pro-
duction. shows that three -fourths the
wheat of this state Is raised north
of an east and west line drawn
through Tulsa, with this place as
natural rail outlet to the southeast:
and
That eighty per cent OF the cotton
Of Oklahoma Is grown south Of the
Choctaw and east of the Santa Fe
railroads.
Having an annual rainfall of 30 to
45 inches, compared with ~ to 80
inches in the west half of the state.
eastern Oklahoma Is becoming the
great corn and cotton field OF the
state.
Commerce and finance, the word
over, have their growth In zones OF
natural convenience, and this tenuen-
cy is already taking shape In Okla
homa.
The eastern section Of this state
McAlester. Muskogee and tulsa as its
commercial centers but there Is a
visible centering Of financial and in