The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-15
BENTON COUNTY
CLAIMS CREDIT
Her Water, Not Tulsa
Spirit, What Carried
Tulsa Bonds
WATER IS WORTH IT
Tulsa Passed Up Streams
Much Nearer Home to
Get Real Thing

The source OF spavnaw creek
from which Tulsa is coon 10 secure
It's water supply II IN Benton county
Arkansas, ~ milca west ~ Rogers,
few miles duo woat Of Bcntonvilic
ana northwest of Ccntertou, iu a
neiRhborhood Of humorous unfnil-
Ing springs. according 10 nm inNeeii-
ration Just completed by the press
committee Of the Rogers COmmun-
ity club which vs. taSinR advantage
y of tho fact That Tulsa voted bond
Issue of over half million dollars
TO he able TO furnish its citizenHhip
with water originating in that
county
Jay ldon. staff correspondent for
the COuutrN Gentleman ana tho
Saturday Evening Post, while re-
Gently visiting the community club
was told Of tho Tulsu project and
under the inspiration Of what was
eQtold he wrote the following article
which has appeared in more than
dozen Of the leading papers OF
Kansas Missouri and ArkanHas. Un-
der n Rogers date line 1t reads:
"Tulsa says Il was the Tulsa
spirit. Heuton county says II was the
= water from her hills that ala II.
! Anyway November %, Tulsa voted
Y, sc. soc 600 TO pay for piping Benton
county water 10 that city. THAT IN
+ to say. the river to be tapped In the
Sphvinaw. aud tho Spavinaw rises In
section 80, Garland township. BEN
ton county. Arkansas. due wost OF
2 Rentonyille and northwest Of Cen
terion.
!. "Thc Tulsa election followed close
4 on tho heels of elections for the
4 same purpose IN Kansas City, Okla
q ffftsg /, In al nf
z these citios the bonds we're defeated.
Tulsa says they lacked the Tulsa
J epifit, Benton county sayN they were
y too far away 70 tap Benton county
, stream and wouldn't accept gubsti-
tutlons.
Previous 10 the election Tulsa
! ana Tulsa interests brought IN En-
3 gineers Gocthale-he OF the Panama
!, ,canal---Bartow, Lambert, TFammsi
and Earl They all said. Tap spav-
: inaw.'
There were two oklnhoma rivers
7 nearer. the Grand and the Verdi
/, girls but Tulsa passed them up, It
wanted spavlnaw water. so the
water from thls river, which down
s among the May apples, wild hops
Z Wild ginger, splcewood, sasaafras
sarsaparilla. golden seal, sweet nnis
y wahoo, witchhazel. Ecnsong and 9TH
4 or medicinal herbs ana nhruhs that
grow IN the Ozarks, will be CARVED
= undcr tho Grand river and the Ver-
3 digris river, by means of conduits
; laid on the bottoms of those streams,
{ The water will be carried bs miles.
S,t;ravity flow will carry It within
( four miles OF Tulaa. Only one
fourth of the water Win be needed.
The surplus viii be turned into n
great artificial lake. Which means
lk.Tuiaa will have n strcsE flow OF
tarA~h water coming 20 1t all tho
Mime.
IAN OF which is pretty little
ntcmpiiment TO section 80, Garland
ittownship. Benton county. Arkansas
But think what Tulsa truninE the tap
In the kitchen Tulsa Will have. Sing
Ing birds In the high ozark hills.
ferns along the cool brooks, the
voice OF the summer winds In the
esdsFs. oaks and pines. and water
sweet ns bnbys kiss and cool rs
tho old oaken bucket. six million,
eight hundred thousand dollars for a
drink OF benton county water. Yet
any ArkanHan astray would give Il
II he had IT,"