Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-10-24

ID ROBABLY the biggest industry
L ever located in Tulsa, both in the
amount of money invested and the ul-
innate results to the city at large, has
opened for business. 1t is the Tulsa
Cold Storage company. reorganiza-
ton of the Tulsa Packing company.
the charter of which concern was
amended by the secretary of state last
Saturday at Oklahoma City and the
capital stock increased from $4,000
to S250,000.
Paul M. Galloway. for ten years
manager of the electric light and ice
plant here, owned by the Public Scrv-
ice company Of oklahoma, is presi
dent and general manager of the cor
poration. Ii. l.. Anderson, prominent
oil man. is Vice-president and treas
urcr of the concern. Robert l.. Cham
bers of San Francisco, formerly in the
banking business on the coast, is sec
retary, and William B. Noelker, for
many years manager of Armour d
| Co.'S largest storage plants, is man
aEer.
The plant on the banks of the Ar
| kansas river. at the east entrance of
| the new 100000 county bridge. is
practically completed. The first car
| load of apples for storage here ar
rived yesterday from the state of
| Washington. Frat and vegetables
| from every section of the United States
will be stored here in the future. Sew
| eral hundred carloads of such prod
ucts can be stored in the plant at one
| time and the mechanical equipment
land construction are such that even
| if the machinery should be shut down
| for a week the temperature in the
! storage rooms would not change one
degree
The plant is absolutely the latest
thing in cold storages and has at
| tracted attention throughout the cOun-
| try 1t is complete to the minutest
detail.
The building is situated on the COM
| pany's property of II acres. 1t is
fireproof being built OF brick and re-
inforced concrete. The roof also is
of concrete. which is something new.
The building is 50 completely immune
from fire that the owners will carry
no fire insurance on their Investment
All who store will have an exceed
inPly low insurance rate, not in eX-
cess of 20 cents per 800. 1t will
likely be under 25 cents.
Five Floors.
The storage has five floors with a
total capacity in excess of one mil
lion cubic feet All the floors are
equipped with double walls with
ground cork insulation on the inside
wall. All floors and pillars are solid
| concrete. No expense was spared for
material and only the best obtainable
was used. one Of the newest wrinkles
in cold storages will be In the inside
vestibules. These Nestibules will be
built inside the plant at each door. 40
that stock taken from the coolers can
bo placed in these vestbules until
hauled away, instead of being put on
the outside, exposed to the weather
A low temperature will be maintained
in these vestibules.
one of the rooms will be used foi
storing ice. This room has a capacity
for five thousand tons, Facilities are
being completed to ice around ter
cars at one time,
Track Facilities.
The new plant has excellent track
facilities being located on the main
line of the Frisco, The plant has
ample trackage to handle several cars
at a time. a solid concrete platform
surrounds the building on the track
side. All trucks used will be rubber
tired, so as to handle fruit as lightly
as possible to prevent bruising, The
building is so erected that two addi-
tional floors can he added if required
A poultry, feeding and freezing plant
will be installed later. The company
states this will be conducted by Other
parties as it Is ip the cold storage
business only.