Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-07-28
lNTERURBAN ROAD
MADE SAND SPRINGS
-Four Years Ago But a SIN
gle Hut Marked Roads
for 7 Miles.
is PROSPEROUS TOWN
II
IS PROSPEROUS TOWN
Charles Page Has Trans
formed Wilderness Into
Fertile Valley,

lhe Denetlts that come TO a com.
munity through the operation Of an
lntorurban railway through il has
never been more strikingly displayed
than In the example OF the Sand
Springs line, running out Of Tulsa
seven miles up the Arkansas to Sand
Springs and Sand Springs park.
This particular strip Of country five
years ago might have been properly
called wilderness. There was
scarcely n marked roadway through
II, with here and there hut sheltered
among the trees and tangles There
was hut one building to break the
lnohotony TO any degree. That was
the sand Springs home, which then
was not the home 1t is today.
five years ago about this time
Charles Page decided to build up the
country between Tulsa and what is
now Sand Springs by building an cleo
tnc me. sand Springs vast just a
KIND OF name for the community,
something on the order OF "the OF
swimmin' hole" merely meaning a
certain spot along the creek. 1t was
not even dot on the Katy railway
map, and to receive or discharge pas
SehEers there was only the matter Of
Il great accommodation.
At the end OF the line there was
Tulsa, with her plenty but there was
nothing at the other end. with
scarcely anything between the two
points Sand Springs park was Just
starting, and for long time the Sand
Springs llne had TO depend upon travel
20 ana trom the park But about that
time the town Of Sand Springs was
a IA Ia haI . l..
iore there was quite village here
chiefly because OF the accommodation
afforded by the new railway Good
houses were also soon building near
ne mile stations established by the
railway and along the line every
phase Of agriculture took on new
life. The Sand Springs line began
nauling a little freight to the village
ot sand Springs, much OF which was
handled on passenger car. Then
good hard work by the founder of
Sand Springs began bringing in factor
les. Lighting wires were strung and
the town of Sand Springs began hav-
Ing electric lights from the railways
power plant at that place. Then the
park was lighted from end to end by
hundreds OF lights.
That Is about the way Il was four
years ago when the Sand Springs line
pcgan building. But now Just the To-
cal consigmonts Of freight going into
Sand Springs each day I'm the year run
from two to four carloads, while the
town, by reason of its numerous and
varied line OF factories, sends out
more freight each day than any other
town Of like proportions anywhere in
he country From less than a dot on
the map, Sand Springs has grown to
nf . H.,
habitants. embracing all modern con-
veinences except paving, and the pro-
Frcssivc community is now using it's
pencil putting down figures for about
eight or ten blocks OF paVements on
It's principal street
Farms Also Improved.
Also has there come a like improve
ment to the farming lands lying along
the line. All Of It lies in the fertile
Arkansas river valley, where immense
Yields are the rule rather than the
exception. Orchards are springiEg up,
alfalfa fields line the roadway on
either side, ana great dairy farms are
being established. Investments and
improvements, all hinging on the
building OF the only intcurban line
leading out OF Tulsa, have increased
by several millions of dollars Prac-
tically each of the hundreds OF homes
IN Sand Springs was built because of
the railway service, and the outlay
oi cash in building up the modern
town, with its surroundings OF fac
tories and farms, its business houses
aud each such town activity dates
from the building of the Sand Springs
line.
1t is quite doubtful if all of the
products Of Wckiwa township four
years ago were worth $4,000 an
nhally Now that amount each week
iP paid out to laborers woI king in the
factories at Sand Springs -three-quar-
ters Of a million dollars annually. and
constantly growing. The same is pro-
portionately true of what has been
ACCOMPLISHED In an agricultural way.
Furthermore. each Saturday Sand
Springs sends into Tulsa the greater
part Of its population. chiefly because
Tulsa is the big town and Is visited
because of the sights" Sand Springs
people do great volume Of business
with Sand Springs merchants, yet all
the while Tulsa remains as the hub
in the development wheel Sand
Springs cars entering Tulsa on Satur-
day afternoons and evenings are al
most as loaded with humanity as they
are when departing from Tulsa with
persons Dounu Tor SAND springs park.
And from the inconsiderable thou
sands which the Sand Springs line car
ried out to Sand Springs park the first
| year it was operated. the annual ride
Is now Just about a million persons,
and the park has taken on a reputa>
| t!on in all parts OF the country as a
| great recreation and picuiCking
grounds, with zoo and lake and flower
| gardens and open air band concerts
three nights each week.
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