Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-19
ROAD DELAY MAY
HIT TULSA TRADE
Failure to Complete Keystone
Highway Brings Talk of
Oil Field Boycott.
MASS MEETING HERE URGED
Business Men in Arms Over
Scheme Framed by Page
and Put Thru by North.


Tulsa business men may pay the
penalty for TIE cclay in completing
the Keystone highway, it was learned
yesterday. Report, received here are
tc the effect that Citize,s in the oil
fields, which this road would serve.
are becoming aroused over the fail
urc Of Tulsa county to fuIill its prom
iac made several weeks ago
Among the visitors in the city yes
tnday was Paul Meyers of Fisher.
Who assert, I'd that tie residents of that
vicinity were indignant over the in
action of the Tulsa county comnis-
sion to complete the two and third
miles of road from Price station west,
WLlch would pr1ride an opening to
Cushing, Yale, Drumright and the
rich oil fields According to Mr.,
Myers the merchants of these towns
are thr aatening to declare boycott
against Tulsa business houses unless
the road is built at once
oil Men Build Roads.
RelyiLg upon promises made by
the local commissioners ,he oil fell
read boosters have built the roads in
thcir districts to the points whore they
would connect with those of Tulsa
county. Now tina. their nigEawys are
competed they fiad that the destina-
t"n is bind trail.
Probably no piece of road in the
county means moro to Tulsa team the
stretch from Price. II would be the
means of increasing the local trade
territory by more than fifty thousand
people. Practically all Cf this husi-
ross at present goes TO Sarulpa and
other towns.
Demand Mass Meeting.
Tulsa BUSINESS men, fearing that
they would be the victims of tho cCun-
ty commissioners schemes last niSht
asked K. NJ. NJ Mct'ar!in, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, tc call a mass
meeting at which means of having the
connecting link of the keystone road
lui.t at ono, could be discussed
1t is realized that Lou North, chair
man of the county board, is the chief
obstacle in the construction of the
keystone highway. Persistent reports
credit his opposition of this improve
mcnt to the influence of Charles Page.
promoter of the townsite of Sand
Springs.
See Thru Page Plan.
Pages plan. it is declared, is to
block completion of the Keystone
highway. When the old West Tulsa
bridge is reinstalled at Sand Springs
he believes traffic would be diverted
from the road along the south side
of the river across the bridge and thru
the town OF Sand Springs.
The attitude of Chairman North to-
ward the Keystone highway indicates
that ne is a close ally of Page in the
plot.
Protests over Tulsa countys leth-
argy are pouring into the Chamber
of Commerce. bankers and good road
boosters.
one letter from Fred J.. Wenncr of
Guthrie to r. NJ McFar,in, president
of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce,
says in part;
1T is now more than a month since
s'YtY-fivc of the leading business and
lTOfeSsi )nal men and city officials
from twenty towns on the oil fields
and northern route Of the Ozark trail
met with representatives of your or
eauiZaticn and we're given positive
assurance that Tulsa would build ner
section of the linz, from Tulsa to Key
stone, according to the requirements
Of the National ozark Trails associa- |
tloI.
Tulsa'S Obligation
Relying uron this promise the men |
in attendance at hat conference have |
built their sections OF the road and |
] have again ana +gain assured coun- !
ty commissioners township boards, !
good roads associa ticns and citizens
generally along tho route that Tulsa
would 10 her Part, thus inducing
them to appropriate money generously |
for building the line.
WHEN Tulsa accepted designation |
as common point on the Ozark trail !
she assumed moral obliCation 10 |
build a road coming up 20 Ozark trail |
specifications to meet at the Tulsa |
county line every competing line seek |
ing to ontor that city as 4 common !
oint This sne has failed to do for |
our line" |
Makes Offc; to Board
T.. Bee Cuthrey, highway commits |
so was made a Chamber of Commerce |
las offered to bui'd the two and third |
miles of road fpr $1,000, providing |
work on the bridges is allowed to pro- |
oecd. These bridges have been or !
dered, the morey for them set aside |
Ind the steel is rev on the ground |
hut their erection was stopped by |
members of the commission Chair |
man North will make an inspection |
trip over the proposed road Satur lay |
Rules of tho Ozark Trails assocla-
ton call for completion of all high
ways along the route by June 1. Off
Gals os the local branch say that they |
win make n supreme effort to have |
the road to Keystone finished by that
time.