The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-09-20
FACTS ABOUT TULSA
AND BIC REUNION
FINANCIAL STRENGTH Is
EQUAL TO ANY UNDER
TAKING
BANK STATISTIC SHOW wealth
~A
Ready to Entertain Old confederates
September 24-27 Inclusive
A Solid Week Of
Pleasure.
BANK STATISTIC SHOW WEALTH

IulSa, Okla., Auy0SC---W w hCA eAS
ex-Confederate soldiers, and their al
lied organizations, select city IN
which to hold a reunion, if they have
never met in that city before. desire
for information concerning the new
meeting place is widespread through
out the southern states. The Con-
federates last year in Washington
city selected Tulsa, Okla, as the place
for the reunion of 1918. It was the
frst time an Oklahoma city had been
selected as a reunion city, and the
interest already mentioned attaches
to Tulsa first, to Oklahoma second.
The first and most important con-
sideration among the very large num-
Der of people interested in reunions,
is the matter of ability of a reunion
known that to properly entertain
Confederate reunion, from $4,000 to
100000 is necessary. The question,
therefore, In the minds Of the people
OF the south is, Can Tulsa furnish
the money!"
No Confederate reunion city has
more money, population considered
than Tulsa. Few of them have as
much, with no consideration as to the
population A brief statement Of Tul
ea's financial strength shoGld dispel
any doubt that may have arisen on
this score. In fact, the fund for en-
tertaining the reunion is already sub
scribed and assured. One hundred
thousand dollars, il necessary. will be
expended to entertain the reunion.
A consolidated bank statement re-
veals the strength of the community
in money. Under the comptroller's
call for bank statements of the date
of May 10, 1918, the banks of Tulsa
showed the following wealth:
Total capital and surplus, $3,080,000
Total undivided profits, $49G, 1923
Total deposits, $50 336215.57.
Total resources, $59, 9,6S2,974.02.
Examine nov the table of bank
clearings In the month of June, 1918
the total clearings, as shown by the
report of the clearinghouse asSocia
ton were $47,0S2, ,O4517 Taking these
figures as a monthly average for the
year the total clearings for 1918 will
under, rather than above, the figures
for the year, because the clearings
are increasing every month. 1t lie
safe to estimate the total bank clear
ings for 1918 at six hundred millions
The clearings in June, 1918, were CO.'S
per cent above those of the same
month of 1917.
While Tulsa is the great money
center of the southwest, her people
are patriotic also. They are giving
and lending their money to the gov
ernment for war purposes in large
volume. At the close of the campaign
for the third liberty loan, the com
munity had donated and loaned to wal
purposes $18,607, 900. This statement
includes three or four comparatively
small donations to educational and
charitable institutions, altogether
ANU W 1908 lIdI lAAAAllOh uOi
Jars So, Tulsa has contributed more
than $17000.000 to the various war
loans and straight donation funds,
Her quota of $4,600,OOO in the third
liberty loan, was subscribed in less
than a week.
A community that enjoys the finan'
cial strength that these figures in
dicate, can finance any undertaking
it may invite. Tulsa invited the
Confederates to come here with their
1918 reunion, fully understanding
what it would cost. And Tulsa will
nav the reunion bill.
Tulsa will not only pay the reunion
bill. but she will pay it ungrudgingIy
She will also extend the glad hand
to all reunion visitors The dates OF
the reunion are Sept. 24-27 inclusive
The railways have granted a rate Of
one cent mile each way, tickets to
go on sale September 10, good fol