The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-22
PLAN FOR ROAD
SOUTH OF RIVER
Sand Springs Bridge Is
Not Strong Enough for
Heavy Loads
JOIN KEYSTONE ROAD
Highway Will Extend From
The Price Sand Plant West
About Five Miles

a broken tic-rod in ono OF tho
apgna on Tho Sand SprlnRa river
bridge and the necessity Of Keeping
ncavy traffic off the structure iu the
,uture yesterday led the county COM
nissionere 20 adopt a resolution In
iroduced By Ira Short, ins'ruc.ng
Dan Patton, county engineer. 10
make n preliminary survey alonE the
south side OF the Arkansas river
from tho Price Sand company 90 the
East end OF tho Keystone road, With
q view OF building road with!H ;ha
next few months. Tho road, OF
course, 10 rs yet only suggested. but
Tho commissioners and Patton say
hat IT. coustruction is probably q
.crtainty. as heavy traffic must be
Kept from tho Sand Springs bridge
{ Il is 10 continue In service.
The breaking OF tho tle-rod was
discovered about 4 o'clock Sunday
afternoon. Just after tho pSsllng ~ a
large truck, heavily loaded with
brick. The bridge was closed to
rattle by Sand sprlngs police Off
7ers and motorists had to detonr to
Tulsa via Red Fork. County work
men yesterday repaired tho break
sufficiently to allow light traffic
-uch os motor cars aud horse drawn
vehicles on tho bridge but all trucks
had TO detour by Red Fork, II viii
10 three or four days before the
break is fully repaired. according TO
pRtton.
In Use 20 Years.
Tho bridge is tho one which for
mefly spanned the river at Tulsa. IL
has been in use about twonty years
and Patton says that IL In not built
for traffic of more than six or seven
tons. However, he said that for the
last year tho traffic had reached as
high az 15 tons. Such heavy traffic
cannot continue, he stated, az tho
break Sunday proves II heavy trnf-
flc Is allowed 10 continue use OF the
bridge n serious accident will result.
Patton and the county commission
ers believe.
The building OF the new road
along the south side OF the river
would not only relieve tho traffic
across the Sand Springs bridge but
would also lessen the travel over the
Sand Springs paved highway. At
present tho traffic ~ so heavy that
1ania often result. This condition
would end with tho construction OF
the new road and the banning OF the
bridge to trucks.
While the new road would Increase
travel across the Tulsa bridge, IL In
of sufficiently heavy construction 90
hold up, The Tulsa bridge will car
rv may times its present load and
still not be overloaded, according to
the county engineer.
VIII Make Two Surveys.
Patton was instructed by tbs COM
missioners to make two preliminary
surveys for tho proposed road. One
Will bo along the railroad and the
other winding around among the
hills. The estimated cost OF the two
will be compared. The road will be
about five miles IN length and will
be OF dirt and shale. In fact Il will
really be a Hhalo road.
At present. according TO county Of
fioials, a road runs along the south
side OF the river to the Price sand
company, about two miles from West
Tulsa. Two rock crushers and three
sand companies further down the
river cannot be reached by auto and
get no service except by railroad.
Thus the new road would give serv-
Ice to these companies.
Even II the road will he construct
cd OF dirt II viii be easy TO keep In
good condition. because of its shale
construction and the nearness of
rock crushers which will reduce up-
keep costs 70 a minimum. While no
Authorative cost figures are avail
able, Ira Short. believes that the
road ought not to cost over fifty
thousand dollars Patton. too, be-
lieves that the road can be con-
structed for this amount.
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