Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-06-24
Main and Cincinnati Street
Crossings to Have Me
chanical Devices.
ON DOUBLE TRACKS
Quarter of Million Dollars
to Be Spent for Frisco
improvements.

EloCtricallN operated gates at Nam
and Cincinnati street crossings ar"
the latest items OF the program of i'm
provements planned bN the Frisco in
this city ". \. Moore, general agent
and J NJ. Chandler, division supcrin-
tcndent at Sapulpa. took the matter
up yesterday with the oltl attorney
and ii is probable that the Gates Will
be installed in the next thiItN days.
They viii be of structural steel ana
OF the vest best workmanship. Mod
crn appliances will be placed on them
in order to make them proof against
crossing tragedies in rul,-l. The con-
trol will be 10y electricity making the
operation Instantaneous.
The rough work was begun Nestor.
day on the grade for the douhle-track-
ing which is to extend from the Tulsa
stoc<yards. east of the city. tn about
ono mile beyond Red Fork. The
roundhousc. which is to hC built a.
the West Tulsa Yards, has been OF
ficially announced as S2-stdll al
far, making it the largest On the III.
vision.
10 Spend Large sum.
It is understood that &25o.00O has
been appropriated for imu, date cS.
pcnditurc in Tulsa and tho.c is uttlr
duht that this viii be increased To
$500, 600 before the present operations
are completed.
The improvements being made "a
West Tulsa make 1t the largest point
on the division IN every WY and Il
Is but a question of time uEtl Tulsa
is tho center of the southwest dl-
vision of the Frisco system.
In addition to the roundhouse, Sc'-
crai miles of tracking are to be m
stalled as quickly as pc siblc in the
yards so as to flcilitot" switching
Tho doublo-tracNing through Tulsa
| viii double the capacity of the roa"
| in handling fIclght.
/ shovel on Ground.
Two steam shoVcls are now on the
! ground one at either end Ui the dCu-
/ hlc-track ana two hundred men al e
+ being recruited for laying the track
The roundhousc has not been started
/ hut will hC seen rising "bovc the
ground within "A week
/ In my opinion Tulsa VIII be a ciN
/ of 100 600 population IN less than tcI
years and when 1t gets to be 100000
population we viii be 2hcad of T.
! We intend TO keep a year In advance
| Of the oity's growth in the future a.
stead of DRAGGING a year behind it,
: sad w. y. Moore, general agent, N'T
/ tCrday
I'VE are going to do everything tha
( L. necessary to handle the business
/ and AVOID congestion. Every unit u
our facilities viii be kept at the riEh
I capacity and as soon as the buslHes'
outErows any one department We vii
, increase that department.
Tho roundhousC and doublc-tracN
! ing will be completed in thirty day
and we VIII then be in a position tt
take care Of our freight IN the propel
manner.
70 Cate 10 Tulsa.
"If at that time anything else T.
needed It undoubtedly will be done
We realize the importance Of 1uls:
business and are going to cater to IT
The far.rCaching effect Of the es
Enlistment of q mechanical plant II
West Tulsa are already beginning q
be felt by Tulsa merchants The TIVE
hundred men who have been hrough
to do the const ruction work give AZ
idea Of what is to be expected whcI
several hundred families move here
on account of the fact that trains ar,
sent ont from T4lSg.