The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-12-16
CEMENT SUPPLY
NOW AVAILABLE
City Engineer Finds One
Company Asking Time
Can Get Material
OTHERS WELL SUPPLIED
But Parker-Washington Com
pany Has Order II Cannot
Get Filled, IL Claims

That all paving contractors ar,
obtaining cement except u. y
Mccormick tho Parker -WaahinRto OF
Paving company-that $4,000 bar.
reis OF cement In being shipped each
month by the cement companies OPP
Grating within a reasonable distance
from Tulsa. although the Parker
Washington company has an order
for 10000 barrels with H. the Ada
Portland Cement company is ship
ping large quantities 10 Alabama or
n contract OF more recent date than
Mat OF the Parker Wash lngton com
pany. is tho substance Of n report
written "Wednesday by city Engineer
g. u. Briggs.
The report was prepared after tho
action OF the mayor ana city com
missloners Tuesday morning I'm re-
fusing to grant an extension of time
TO the Parker. Washington company
IN districts 233. 234 and 23b, which
contracts were let last April, william
Fuller, representing the paving
company told the commissioners his
company was unable to obtain mate
rials and that Its scope IL narrowed
by the present financial stringcncy.
Cement Available.
Griggs' report indicates that CO.
ment is now available for the Parker
Washington company to complete its
present contracts and that cars may
be obtained In which TO transport II.
but that tho paving company is not
making n scroius effort to obtain
It's pro rata Of tho cement.
The report explains that the con-
tracts cali for iS0 working days,
This determined by excluding Sun
days. legal holidays. bad weather and
delays due 10 failure to obtain mate
rials. provided the contractor haa
made due effort to get materials.
Strikes also give them an extension
Of time.
lin figuring the termination OF
these reasons, together with days on
which the temperature was below 35
degrees.
Cement Main Alibl.
"Their strongest and best plea In
that they have been unable to get
cement. From the Investigation I
have made In the last 80 dsyr. we
find that the cement situdtion ~ in
deed. acute. Tho railroads are fi'l!ng
only 80 per cent or tho car orders at
the mills. Yet. l find that tho mills
In continguous territory are shipping
considerable cement. have reports
from the plants at Humboit. Inde-
endcnce. Chanutc. Dewey. FIRE.
donia. Ada, and lola, which indicate
that 1850 cars OF cement are being
shipped each month. This amounts
to about $4,000 barrels OF cement
There is no doubt but what IN,
cement trust IL favoring concrete
paving In preference to asphalt. yet
all contractors except the +. Il
Mccormick company are getting
some cement. II requires but five
per cent OF the cement being ship
ped from the above mills for one
month to complete their contracts.
Reports indicate that the Ada
plant shipped b86 carloads of cement
In the last six weeks. Eleven cars
that were furnished were not ioaded d
by the mill. indicating that they had
loaded out the storage supply.
THE Mccormick company has an
order for 10000 barrels of cement
at this plant. 1t claims to bo receiv-
ting practically no cement. yet tn,
Ada plant Is shipping. or was ahip.
ping at very recent date, cement
In large quantities To points In Ala
bAma on contracts OF more recon
date than the Mccormick coh
pany's."
II the city enforces the penait,
against the Parker Washington com
pany for alleged unnecessary delays
the city will he richer by more thar
$4,000, according To the city engineer