The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-06
The Tulsa Ory-HydrO Co.
Is City's NeUest IndustTg

Looking back some 10 or 90 years
60 the early days in Tulsa. when this
city was but an ordinary oklahoma
town It's dusty unpavCd streets
Nned with hitching racks and livery
stables, while COW boys Indians and
their trusty COW ponies raced through
tho streets that now TEEN with thou
sands Of automobiles, it is hard TO
believe that ln this short space or
time, Tulsa has grown not only to
be re- great metropolitan city but has
many vast and cvor-luCroaHiug In
dustries that are fast making 60 "a con
ter OF industry IN the great south
west, as well as the Oh capital Of tho
world
Tulsa's newest industry and one
that shows how modern the city has
grown in It's enterprises. Ire tho now
oxygen hydrogen plant owned by the
Tulsa-ONy Hydro Co, of which VIII
lard Foster is president, W. J. kl-i-
Ter, vice president, and Grant X.
mccullough. secretary and treasurer.
These men, all prominent l1 OIL az
we'll as in civic and buslnceH affairs,
are familiar with modern needs
G. l.. liarior, vino VIII become aafo-
ciatcd with iu'm as superintendent
OF the new plant IH "a practical oNy-
Ken aud hydrogen manufactured
having been bee that business ever
since It's infancy, ana during tho war
bad charge Of more Than 1900 cNl.
ind,rs OF the product for the United
states, which was used ln warfare,
The new plant viii Doe located IN
West Tulsa, diugtuully across tht
street from the Frisco station, and
hence I'm an exceedingly udvautnF.
cous location for shipping purpos'a
The building which b. now under
construction. will bc of brick, 90 hy
so feet In pizc, and Us TO bo equipped
with machinery that IS not only
modern, but UP 90 tho very minute
as modern machinery gOt1 that %
used in the manufacture of these two
most useful and essential products
Mr. Foster president of tho COM
puuy. but recently returned irnIu
trip to the east, whcrc lao purrhn''o
only the newest ana finest ty1eB ol
machinery for tho new plant.
The oxygen and hydrogen Will h'
manufactured by the olcctrolyii'
method. which is tho last word ir
the manufacture OF these products
By this process the hydoErn ana oAy
gen in water IN rapidly converted
into a mCrCantable product ana J..
Furnishing the scientific world WIN
a wonderfully now and unuSunl ole'
ment. ElectrolyNs OF watcr th'
basic principle OF the system, con
sists of the decomposition OF water
by electricity into It's two componen'
gnaos, oxygen ana hydrogen. TINS
method yields the pureHt gases OF anN
other commercial means Of produc'
ing them. when pure distilled whter
composed sololy of oxygen ana ny
drogcn, IL docomposcd into its two
elements by electricity II ia evident
that only purcst oxygen nnd hydro'
gen will be obtained.
Renuers who are large users ol
hoth these products VIII tlnd the
new Tulsa plant located ~
A. ia. at the very center OF
the refining industry. whcro II Is
most convenient for obtaining sup
plies under any and all circum
stances. Oxygen IL used IN prncti'
cally every automobile repair shop
oil well supply shop, refinery etc.
for all kinds OF Welding purposes
This gas is burned through a torch
connected with the cylinders which
are at high pressure. and the blue
flame cuts through the hardest steel
regardless Of its thickness. like
knife cuts through Cheete. IL mas
become as necessary In repair Fhops
reflnerieA and ordinary garages a'
monkey wrencher aud tools ana WI