Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-31

The greatest year in the history
of Tulsa's phenomenal growth from
a village OF a few short years ago,
To the industrial metropolis of the
state. and the leading oil city of the
world will be brought To close to-
night when the hands of the clock
swing over from the year of 1916 TO
1911 1t will leave upon the pages
Of municipality history achievements
which to Tulsa and her people have
been but the natural evolution md
growth. but to other cities and Iao-
Pile of other sections of the country
have far surpassed their belief Of
city building.
Perhaps the greatest indication of
the wonderful growth of Tulsa i'm the
year of which today is the last, is to
be found on the pages of the city
building inspectors books, where IL
Is shown that almost four and "A half
million dollars worth Of building per-
mits were issued during the past
twelve months.
..rcat Clcarings Gains.
During the same period Tulsa's
! financial institute ons cleared thru
the local clearing house approx
matcly two hundred million dollars.
or an increase over the / . months of
] 1915 of more than l40 per cent.
The postal receipts for the year
showed Il like increase over those
announced by the postoffice depart
ment for 1915. and another indica-
ton OF the splendid growth of Tulsa
Is illustrated 10y the most recent CEN
sus which shows that this city now
has population in excess of sixty
thousand people.
Deposits Increase.
Taking the bank deposits of the
city as an indication OF the growth
of Tulsa, the most recent report fol-
lowing the call of the comptroller
shows that there was at the time of
the call, S4l.G79.9S7.9G In the finan-
cial institutions Of this city. In 1900
the deposits were slightly in excess
of $4,000.
Last year the building permits is
sued for the erection of residences, Of
flee buildings, educational and re-
ligious structures In Tulsa amounted
to Sl,5I7, ,l6i. During the past l2
months the building permits issued
Indicated improvements i'm these lines
10 the extent Of si.1612S3. or the
latter amount, $2.19G.32S was for
1874 residences which were to cost
from $1,000 to $4,000 each. In this
grand total Of s4,l61.293 is also in
cluded the valuation of So business
properties to cost more than Sl,374.-
531; 2S apartment houses to cost
see, 200 and educational and religious
structures to cost S324,392.
Beat Oklahoma City.
During the year of 1916 the bank
deposits climbed To the startling fig
lure of lg0,l64,701, or a gain of 1883
per cent over the clearing of 1915,
and to a figure which sets record
for cloarngs gained for the year FOR
the entire country. During the same
period of - months the clearings re-
corded by oklahoma city amounted
TO S225,592,07I over $133.10O,931 for
1915. This gives Tulsa a large mar.
gin Of gain over the other Oklahoma
metropolis, as the gain of the capital
city's clearings was but little less than
20 per cent. while the gain of Tulsa
was in excess Of lii per cent.
December Busy Month.
During but one month OF the year
/ just closing did the gain in Tulsa =
bank clcarings fan below the 100 per
cent mark, and that was during Jan.
uary when but n gain of SG.3 per
cent over the corresponding period OF
1915 was shown. Following is the
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