Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-14
START WORK ON
|NTERURBAN NOW
Fifty Teams and $50 Men Will
Begin Grading Tulsa-Sa-
pulpa Line Today.
PLAN EARLY COMPLETION
Quantity of Material Already
Purchased and No Delay
Is Anticipated.

Actual construction work on the
interurban system that will connect
Tulsa and Sapulpa will be started
Thursday morning when fifty teams
and more than so men will begin
grading the road bed from West Tulsa
to Red Fork. Thus will be started
the first unit of a vast intcrurban
system that will be built out of Tulsa,
the arms of which will stretch in
many directions. according TO an
nounccmcnt made yesterday by |. +.
Grow. active manager and construc-
ton superintendent of the system
which Is being built by the Tulsa
Traction company.
Altho there have been numerous
plans announced in recent years pro-
posing the building of an intcrurban
system from Tulsa to Sapulpa and
! from Tulsa to other points In the sur
| rounding territory none of them have
ever proceeded further than the paper
stage and II Is with "A degree OF statis-
! faction that local capitalists have
started actual work on system that
will be completed without a bond is
/ sue To secure funds To further the
work.
IhiS WORK 10 Bc RuShcd,
Before the end of this month the
| roadhcd from West Tulsa to Red Fork
will he completed, IL was stated
| Wednesday, and within three or pos
sibly four days a large corps of men
and many teams viii begin grading
| the right-of-way from First street
In Tulsa to the river bridge.
All possible haste is to be exc -cised
! In the construction of the road and by
| the time the bridge spanning the Ar
/ kansas river is completed and the
steel laid across IT, 1t will be possible
to operate trains from Tulsa to West
! Tulsa.
Material Purchased.
That extensive preparations have
been made and that there will be no
delay occasoned by material shortage
| Is shown 10y the fact that practically
all OF the material needed in COM
pleting the railroad from Tulsa to
point half way to Sapulpa has been
purchased and that sufficient ties,
poles, steel and copper trolley wire
for the construction OF six miles of
line Is now I'm transit. Mr. Crow said
| During Christmas week ten cars of
similar material will be started for
Tulsa.
Contracts that have been let cali for
"A completed road not later than Jam
h'Ai 81 llitlA VIII permit lHf oDtT1tlbU
of trains from Tulsa to Red Fork.
Exhaustive plans have hen consum-
mated and railroad traffic managers
have been comforting with the local
capitalists relative to expediting the
delivery Of this material and the dis
tribution at convenient points.
Working for Tulsa.
when seen Wednesday afternoon
Mr. Crow stated that the promoters
have the Interest of Tulsa in mind and
that such "A system Of interurbans as
contemplated is an absolute necessity
for the future prosperity and eXpan-
sion Of this city.
TULSA" he said, "is a skyscrapor
city. The mention of contemplated
tcn-story building causes no excited
comment ana even the announcement
cf ground breaking for such gigantic
buildings elicits no expressions of sur
, Prise
with the population growing
greater every day and the construc-
ton of mammoth business blocks.
, apartment houses and residences con-
, tinuing undated, the need tor such n
systcm as we are going to build is be
, coming more and more pronounced.
! he said.
\ Modern Road.
"This Tulsa to Sapulpa line" Mr..
Grove con ntllutus VIII NC Uulll dlpntf
modern lines ard onlV the latest in
tcrurban equipment will be used. our
= contracts call for the best interurban
cars that are built. Large, with great
power and speed and a schedule OF
y thirty minutes will be maintained by
+ thru trains from Tulsa to Sapulpa.
' I'VE will. of course. operate local
, trains That. will not make such speed,
= hut on our fast thru trains the dis
y tance" from Tulsa to Sapulpa VIII be
u thirty minutes" he said
"With the completion OF the line
= upon which actual work Is 20 start
q | Thursday morning the company VIII
- turn its attention to the contemplated
u extension Of the system. building an
% arm to Collinsville. possibly another
v 10 MuslIoCee. and while no definite
action has been taken. 1t IS likely chat
Hartlesville may bc nj near tGtur'
date connected with Tulsa by inter
urban" Mr.. Grow concluded.
y Controlling OFFICERS.
l. &. c. StcbbinEs as president, !. T
Crow as secretary treasurer, together
= with ]. $ Cosdcu and +. w. sinclair
=. make up the board of directors whc
10 are building the road with their oWf
d funds and without bond issue.
10 Mr. Grow. who is at this time an ac
tive yicc-president of the Exchange
9 National bank, and WHO has been con
p rccted with that institution for severa
y Years. is to sever his connection VIII
l. the bank as an active officer Wlthli
e the next few days, devoting al OF nj
d time to the construction of the inter
e urban.
l. While the men who have under
mkon the iuterurban project do no
~ wish It understood :hat they are turn
Is ing from their other fields to rallwa'
ID construction. they believe that Tuls'
a seriously needs such an institution ~
10 NO. nro fnthering, and to benefi
q 'r,lso they have taken uD the task.
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