The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-06
Capitalists From the City of
Automobiles Are Guests
OF the Oil Metropolis.
SEE GREAT RESOURCES HERE
Rankers and Business Men,
Tell Visitors of Wonder
full Development.
CREDIT TO GRANT STEBBINS
Has Done More for Tulsa
Than Any Other Citizen
Says Speaker.
CREDIT TO GRANT STEBBINS

Al the banquet which was held al
the IIolcl Tulsa Friday night J. r.
Crusoe presided nS toastmhster and
made great hit by his happy re-
marks and pleasing way OF making
introdlc'ions,
'sT4ls1 and Detroit arc twin risters
when n comes 10 live towns and have
n sporiI interest in the welfare OF
zach other inasmuch As one Is turn
Inc on, automobiles hy the thoun nds
and the other ~ the head center OF
the oil Industry
"Bu' Tulsa and the mid -continen I
oil field has all the best OF us In n
vav as here nature provides tho
rreat bulk OF the income while with
ne we must develop by active use OF
brains and money the largest manu-
fac,uring Institutions devoted TO the
manufacture OF automobiles OF any
town IN the country.
"It seems that here one has only 10
driu with the ordinary precautions
that goes with any busin ess and the
percentagc OF averages does the rest
ana enough oil can he found on one
40 acres to pay for dozen dry holes.
Not only that but nowadays there
seems TO be n wonderful awakening
10 the financial possibilities OF the
conservation of the by-products and
the gasoline plants that we have vis-
tied are perhaps better money max
ers than the oil wells themselves II
would seem. by the combination OF
oil and casinghead plant, that a
property can be made very produc-
tive for years to come and there will
he many casinghead plants built by
the Gladys Bell oil company on the
great properties owned by them be-
fore many years.
But the real eve opener for us De-
troitcrs was that the properties In the
south end where we saw wells just
completed were putting forth a cloud
= ot gas and much oil and most In
spring sight II was
IT certainly must be a great place
10 run newspaper here in Tulsa as
the advertising possibilities are
greater than anywhere | have ever
been. There are thousands OF work
ers earning big salaries and | under
stand they are not overly careful Of
saving their money. These certainly
must he a class OF people that ad-
Tom Hartman Next.
lie first called on Ton Hartman,
president OF the Producers State
bank, who traced the early history
" The oil business in Oklahoma,
With reference to banking and loan
ing money to oil men. Mr. Hart
man mentioned the fact that he one
time had the high honor ot being
tho president Of the State Bankers
association OF oklahoma AMI said
that he was more than pleased to
get back INTO the business In Tulsa,
where loaning money to oil men was
,hT safest possible source OF rev
enuo 10 any bank, as oil men in
wriably paid their notes II not when
due, az soon as possible.
Ray Fellows Followed.
Ray Fellows attorney for tho
Gladys-Bclle oil company, pointed
out the glory OF Tulsa and Okla
homa IS The source OF the largest
income pm sur taxes paid In the
United Slates, with tho exception
ot only AZ towns. and this when
our popuN,on is not seventh, but
ranks twenSt-first in the number ot
people There Is. said Mr.. Fellows,
wonderful complexity OF laws gov
erning the oil, business, as the In
dams are given every possible ad
vantage under the laws OF Okla
homa and the federal law and the
laws governing the Indian tribes,
y all presents a great puzzle to the
beginner In tho practice OF law. Mr.
Fellows made great impression for
oandor and honesty by his earnest
ness and the great interest that he
pAinly displayed in the welfare OF
the Gladys Belle concern, for
which he has been the attorney for
many years
g. II, Mccullough.
70. p. Mccullough, president OF
Ne First National bank, followed,
md strange to say, had little In his
speech about his new bank building
which will soon he ready for oc-
eupancy. which will be, perhaps, the
most beautiful and artistic banking
rooms In the country anywhere, so
graceful are tho lines and so sim
PIE tho architecture. He did say,
however, that he had known Grant
sehblna for many years and that
ne had never been associated In
business with anyone with whom he
Stebhins was a man Of tho keen
eat moral sense and lived up TO his
hEh sense OF business integrity in
ms every transaction. and that more
man all he was perhaps the most
aehve man he had ever met In all
me banking career II is the man
VINO hus'les and drills many wells
,nat makes for the greatest success
~ M ip
ha' is failure In the oil business.
! can conscientously say that Tulsa
yves more 10 Grant G. Stebbins
.0sn ,o any one man In the entlre
eommuuiHv"
why Whisky and Gaao4fpo Won't
NIX, y. J.. Martin, Of Detroit.
AZ j. Martin, Of Detroit. had for n
Wrultc' Why Whisky and Gasoline
mont NIX" and said he was like
ae man who suffered and who un-
Wet'ook 20 purchase a ticket from
DeFolt 20 NaEra Fails and back. on
Nv or these occasions when the rail |
,ls ar" running 81 excursions. He
r.unu me police had the crowd lined
AZ " long line, and after an hour
80 ', Hucceeded in getting up TO the
hhW but when the ticket agent
s.,.u MN what he wanted he slut
ucta, 90 hadly he could not tell the
poiIe. agent what he wanted and the
sr. : trk"n him out Of the line and
ana nnl back 10 the end or the line
sVal,N 'enn he got up to the window
Nr,,, train was gone" This 10
Po..,h,,e why he couhn't talk.
of Gladys Belle OH Co. |
H. hasee, chairman OF the