Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-04-06
FRISCO OFFICIALS
LIKE OIL TRAFFIC
Using Every Means to Aid
the Oil Field Bus
mess.
HELP THE OIL BILL
Are Slowly Working Out
Tangled Freight Con-
dition.

OILTON, April 5.--Three years was
a long time to wait before an oppor-
tunity came to participate in the
greatest freight and passenger bust
ness in the southwest, but the Frisco
is not wasting the opportunity now
that it is presented through the com
pletion of the Oil Belt Terminal rail
road from Jennings, where it con
meets with the Frisco and Katy, TO
Oilton And having once tasted OF
this oil field business, the Frisco OF
ficials like it, and they are taking ad-
vantage of every opening. Practically
every Frisco official has been here
during the past week, each making a
personal investigation of conditions, TO
ascertain what can be done to con
tinue the present activity and make
II permanent.
The private car of General Super
intendent j. A. Frates has been stand
ing in either the Jennings or the OH
ton yards for the past two weeks.
When ii became necessary TO bulld
additional sidetracks in the Oilton
yards in order to accommodate the
rapidly accumuating freight, Frates
rendered the use of four hundred
Frisco section men and track builders.
When he made the offer the Frisco
sidetracks all the way from West
Tulsa to Pawnee were crowded with
cars of freight for the oil field here,
and the congestion was such that I'M
mediate relief was necessary. Then
Frates had a special train run troN
Springfield, Mo-, to Otlton TO DrlnS
the track layers, and they built three
~
day.
With the sidetracks completed, 1t
became necessary to move in the hun
dreds of cars of freight and Frates
rendered the use of Frisco engines TO
do the work. For several days Frisco
engines pulled trainloads of freight
into Oilton, where five hundred teams
have since been busy unloading them.
Prior to the completion of the OIL
Belt into Oilton the Frisco company
turned its bridge crew over to the new
road to construct the four-span steel
bridge over the Cimarron river here.
In order to facilitate the business,
too the Frisco is moving its depot
from it's junction point, just east OF
Jennings, to an uptown location, with
all of its departments, and joint
station is being established with the
Oil Belt. 1t Is just part OF the Frisco
program to let no opportunity escape
in this locality. In order to accom-
modate the oil men who visit the
field daily, the Frisco has put on a
through train from Tulsa to Oilton,
making the round trip daily and per-
mitting the oil men to remain in the
field all day,
Although the Santa Fe and Katy
have been busy for several years
hauling long trains of oil, the Frisco
did not have the oil field connection
for this business until the Oil Belt
Terminal was completed, and yester-
day the Frisco received at Jennings
it's first train of oil, ten tanks, from
loading racks that have just been in
stalled here This first shipment was
to Kansas City, but according to Cen
eral superintendent Frates, there will
soon be shipments of oil also to st.
Louis and other eastern points. The
Oil Belt road will soon be lined with
loading racks all the way from OIL
ton to Jennings, and on both sides of
the tracks.
In addition to Mr.. Frates. other
Frisco officials at Oilton during the
past few days were Alexander Hilton,
general freight and passenger agent;
Il. ID. Levy, general manager; Samuel
A. Hughes general immigration
agent; Superintendent Hopkins, Divis-
ion Superintendent Mason, Division
Passenger Agent c. o. Jackson. Also
there were General Agent Clark of the
Erie lines. Travelling Passenger Agent
Anderson of the Pennsylvania lines;
Superintendent Il. II. Thayer Of the
Fred Harvey system. General Man
ager w Il. Williams, Commercial
Agent O. c. Thomas, Superintendent
S. H. Charles, District Passenger
Agent George r. Hecker and C. r.
Slrkosky, travelling freight agent all
of the Katy. Oilton is becoming a
Mecca for the railroad officials Of the
country.
Mr.. Clark of the Erie said that road
has recently turned over SO cars OF
steel en- route to this district. for oil
tankage. The Carter Oil company has
800 cars of tank steel en- route from
Pittsburgh, y. b. Jones has 22 trains
of steel en- route and Frank Brown
has 40 cars en- route, all for distribu-
tion from this point. The Grant Lum-
Der company received here yesterday
a trainload of lumber. 20 cars.
1t is this activity that is making
the railroads bid so brskly for the
business I'm this section, and that is
making Oilton such an important
railroad point at the present time.