The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-03-28

10 high costs have checked huid
ing IN the east. It has not made any
Impression on the minds OF TuiAan''
who talk IN millions even whom ih"u
checks are I'm the u. y class, WriI't
II Is IAufmhn. staff correspondent
In the Pittsburgh Lohdor. WIN
building permits reaching $2.3uO. 600
ia tho month of February 10 ia s'il
necessary for the traveller to engage
a hut, room q week before Doc
strikes town. and " he wants 10
bring ns family hore he usually has
to buy 90 hu.uc. for rent lists are
down tu the zero mrrk Mr.. Lhut-
man Nritta as fuiinws In The Lradcr
Rucut Iulsn.
4 I0.story and two history build
inns are boz course OF construction.
a 81. 800 600 hospital g. being hullt
a huge apartment building b. bciuE
rushed Goo completion. work on u
great factor, b. boing pushed and
The Robinson Packer company ia
putting up q 100000 homo. The
Petroleum club. consisting 81 about
900 oil men. has plans Tor a 20-Wory
building In thia building will be
housed some Of the citys leading
clubs and there viii hc hundreds ui
sleeping rooms. These operations
and plans are suggestive of the dis
regard IN which building costs are
lcld out there. Individuals are
showing cqunl uncoucoru In Huch
matters and are rushing work on
new homes IN every section Of the
city
Twenty years ago Tulsa had pop
ulation OF la00 and decade age
the city reached the diguifiod pro-
portions OF lb.1s2. Its population II
now S7.735 and unlike the towns ere
atod by more recent oil booms the
people here live In beautiful homes
and work In splendid office ana mer'
camille buildings OF modern design.
Tulsa is In what was formerly In.
dian territory ana had prohibition
long before the rest of the country
thought Of closing tho saloons. Uncle
sam considered fircwatcr bad for In
dlhns and the pale faces living here
also had to 20 without tho cheering
cup liut federal prohibition is ~
much discussed here aA In PITTS.
burgh. and the wine that IL red IL
missed Just as much
Things Move tGst.
Growth In rapid In Tulsa Last
June a returned soldier. who served
In France with u number OF PITTS
burghers. including young Holmes
tho broker opened bank To-day
tho deposits OF this bank are
81 100000.
There Is spirit here that prob
ably accounts for the great growth
In the city. Whom this bank opened
its doors lis competitors all OF tho
other banks In tho city. purchased
full pages In tho newspapers through
which they extended n welcome "a
lFa1 al 20
themselves, but they also boost each
other out here.
The citys banks have total depos.
its OF $4,000, 900. Statistics show
that the amount OF these deposits Il
turned over every five weeks, which
bankers claim, reflects tho activitic
OF the people here. Bank clearing
for a week run about sii.00O,000.
Last year Tulsa put S0,d7a,ii3 int,
new buildings. divided aa follows
1887 residences. Si,e39.61b; 6s5 pri
vatc garages, 1857 ,s6a; 1919 busincs
buildings, S2.6s8.S6s; "a apartmcn
tb96,s00; five churches, sl6g,600
80 schools, s672,s 500. and fire sta
ton and armory at s37,3s0, viii
miscellaneous buildings aggregatinl
NiT,0lo. A total OF s1,756,Ooo wa
spent on buildings Just outside III,
city limits.
But after all this expenditure tho,
are still renting from plans OF pro
posed buildings.
Tulsa has "A commission form O
government and plenty of politica
scraps.
There are 30 churches, n $500, ,oOl
college, "A sl50.0O0 Y. NJ. c. A., an,
S2b0.00o Y, W. c. A. The fact tina
the Y. w. building cost more thar
the mems home Is probably account
ed for by the fact that the womei
vote.
There are 4bT school rooms In tn
city. Fifty-two hotels are crowde,
every night There are 100 milos o
paved streets and six parks
Plenty OF High Spots.
These are some OF Tulsa's hig
spots. a citizen can produce 9.99
more. Tor Tulsa il the best ajvcr
tisod city in the southwest ana Tul
sans do the advertising
Following is the real foundatio
of the city; -Four hundred and thlr
ty-one oil and gas companies, Fl o
field supply companies, ~ petro
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