The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-11-13
new OUTLET SEEN
TO RED FORK ROAD
Auto Club Raises Funds
to Make Phoenix Pas
sable for all Vehicles
DIVISION ROW RESTS
Committee to Wait for Prop
erty Owners TO Point TO
"Iorrow Road" Plan

Immediate rciiof is IN slant FOR
those who use the West Tulsa rond
from the rnd ~ the city paving Ia
the beginning Of the Rcd Fork hard
surfaood highway which is % part ~
tho outlet from this city 10 tho
oil fields and 10 the principal cities
of tho rate The horror road
promises 10 soon be pasHnble In all
NlndH of weather
At special meeting NJ thr Auto
mobile club. called hy prcBidrnt
George Reeves and held In the prl-
Vato dining room ~ Hotel Tulsa
Friday noon u wW decided 70 get
busy Immediately and obtain fnif-
Icicut funds with which 10 place
several inches OF cindrrs and chats
on Phoenix avenue. the thoroughfarc
rarallyliHg Division street one block
cast, 10 be used until such tlmo az
Diviriun street may be paved.
S375 Is Raised.
TO show their determination Auto
mobile club members while at tho
meeting donated na follows: J, A.
Ilull, 500; Frank Uocd. 500;
Mayor r. u Evans. t25. street Com
missioner q. a. steiner. t26; Rem
wv p ~ FsNH ~ lfNNlFt Faus LAW Afto
Motor company $50. W II. lIors.
ter. SO; George Reeves. SO: ~. A,
Guiso, $40, ". &, Childs, $40, and u,
9 Powers SO. making t375 paid IN
within ten minutes.
Mr. Hull was made chairman of
the soliciting committee, with the
privilege Of choosing his assistants
from tho ranks of the club. NY 4
o'clock lsriday afternoon iiull had
personally talked 60 officials OF
practically every large OIL company
IN the city. and had been given sub
stantial pledges from overy one
WIN Begin Work Monday.
AZ least $4,000 will be raised hy
the club. The entire amount. even
though Il bc more than this, will
be used TO purchase materials To
place on Phoenix avenue. street
Commissioner Steiner said city teams
and workers w;, he at work on
Phoenix Saturday. grading IL and
draining the water off. That tho first
cindcrs and chats will he laid Mon
day or Tuesday ~ probable, as Hun
and associates have determined that
not an hour shall be lost.
II IN planned to lay four to five
inches of cinders first, and then the
MInc tUlCkntbS pl tnhtH. lty fIHl@
neer c. II. Griggs will report Satur-
day morning upon tho hest chnta
available for this purpose. II suffi-
cicnt funds are obtained, the chats
may be surfaced with Muskogeo
gravel. In which there In "a liberal
supply OF clay and which provides
an excellent surface. according 10
Automobile club members who have
seen Il used.
Realizing that Division street prop
erty owners are hostile toward an
1s-foot concrete roadway along
their street. the chamber of com-
merce committee composed OF w. r..
Brown, j. NJ. Berry and +. J. Hart
man. appointed to find u market for
the proposed $4,000 In script. be-
iieves' the carrying out Of legal ac-
tlon threatened by these property
owners might obstruct the market
for the bonds. AS n 36-foot asphalt
pavement such as the property own
ers demand will cost $4,000 and M
this amount IL prohibitivc consider
ing the value OF the lots affected,
tho committee has decided to walt
until the property owners can sug.
gest a new plan for financing the
work.