Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-03-08
"a Tulsan for Tulsa"
Shows How This City
Would Be Injured.
HELP SAND SPRINGS
Cheaper Gas Would Draw
Factories to Suburban
Town, He Says.

TO The Tulsa World: ! have read
headed. zone hundred thousand acre
gas lease means much,"; YOU are
right, it does mean much. that is
detrimental to the city of Tulsa. This
one hundred thousand acres is the
best of the gas territory which is be
ing used to supply the city of Tulsa.
The Tulsa Development company is
also trying to get gas lease on g.
600 acres of the territory now held by
the Usage a. Oklahoma company. this
also means much and we might de-
lude ourselves with the pleasing idea
that. because it is named the Tulsa
Development company, that it would
be great benefit to the citizens of
Tulsa for this company to get the
lease they are after, they frankly
conceded that they want this gas for
the CollinsVille smelters Collinsville
is only about seven miles farther from
Tulsa than Sand Springs and has a
much larger number of men employed
in her factories than has Sand
Springs. Therefore, what a great
benefit it would he for Tulsa to have
Sand Springs and Collinsville build
factories to use the cheap gas which
has been preserved and conserved for
zens of Tulsa are philanthropists, we
want Sand Springs and Colinsville to
grow and expand until Sand Springs
comes to us on the west and Collins
VILE joins us on the north, even
though we have thousands of dollars
more for gas for domestic cOnsump-
ton each month. but we could save
money i'll other ways. One thing we
could do without would be the COM
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other of these places. for why COM
mercial club if the factories had to
depend on these two places for gas?
They could say 10 factories, we can't
sell you gas as cheap at Tulsa as here
at Sand Springs or CollnsVille, there
fore YOU will have to move here if
you want cheap fuel, then the fac
tories already located here in Tulsa
could move to Sand Springs or Coll
insville and they wouldn't have to pay
any city taxes, which would be a great
saving of money.
There are so many different ways to
look at it to see the great benefit
Tulsa will derive from Sand Springs
getting the one hundred thousand
acres and Colinsville getting $4,000
acres of gas territory which we
Tulsans had expected would be re-
tanned for Tulsa consumption. True,
we have built up a city of forty
thousand people, and have had the
cheapest and best gas service of any
city in the United States. We have
Geen blessed beyond the citizens of
other cities, for which We give praise.
Because of our prosperity we have in
CURED the enmity of our neighbor-
ing cities, for which we have a Ger
tain amount of sorrow For our in
dependence at the polls we have in
ing powers of the state of Oklahoma,
for which we now wear sackcloth
and ashes and pay per cent produc-
tion tax. And now the eliminating
blessing of our adVersity is about to
be conferred upon us by delivering
over to Sand Springs and CollinsVille
the gas which we expected to he used
for Tulsa alone. and for this we are
expected to be thankful and to laud
and praise the ones who are taking
it away from us. 1t is asking too
much especially at this time, when
'the department has not yet awarded
these gas leases. Let us hope that
this great blessing may not fall upon
us, If we should he so unfortunate
as to lose this gas territory. then
we might search after the silver lin
ing in the dark clouds of misfortune,
and might even be willing to praise
those who take it from us. but let us
not debase ourselves with praise until
we have to. or in other words let us
not eat crow until we are hungry.
A TULSAN FOR TULSA.