The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-31
OLD BOOM ECLIPSED
Tulsa Averaged More Than
One Million Dollars Worth
of Building a Month in '22
1920 NEXT NEAREST MARK
Permit Total Was Over 9 Mil
lion Then; Big Projects in
View for Coming Year
BY HARVEY e. RHODES.

with S446,215 worth of building
permits issued during December,
1922 takes the blue ribbon as a
building year in Tulsa with n total
4 Of Sl3,537,1SS, which includes the
cost of virtually every form of
building structure from a small one
4 car garage TO an imposing 20-story
hotel Between these extremes are
10 and 12-story office buildings,
apartments, bungalows ana man
sions.
The amount represented by build
ing permits issued in the year just
closing is more than the combined
totals for 1917 and 1918, or for
1918 and 1921.
Highest I'm Six Years.
The yearly totals. from 1917 fol-
low: 1917. SS.3SO,492; 1913, sI,-
7S47,370: 1919, S9,47S.734; 1920, So
650,272; 1921, $723S, ,09Qi i1922. $13,-
t3IlSS. By these figures it Will be
\ seen that 1922 led 1920. which held
the previous high record. by ap-
proXimately $4.000.00U. Half of this
lead was caused by the S2,oOO,oOo
Mayo hotel permit.
Starting with a total of s542,4oo IN
January, the peak in 1922 was
reached in November with $2,760,-
4 $50 in permits. February was the
lowest month with $346,160, but in
March there was a pronounced in
crease in building activities. Sep
tember fell down to S624,266. fol-
lowing four million dollar" months.
October and November proved rec
ord breakers. December slumped to
s44e ,216, being the second loves
month of the year, with a lead of
| only 100000 over February.
N The monthly totals for 1922 are:
January, S542,400; February, $346,
lsO; March, S647, ,325; April, $9l9,-
0l0; May, s1,065,925; June, S1,O50,-
ESQ; July, $1.6S5, 600; August, ST.
l26,609; September, S624,266; Octo-
Der. $2,322,47S; November, $2,760,-
ESQ, and December, s446,215.
The Ranking City.
How Tulsa's 1922 total ranks with
figures for the same period in other
Cities of the same or similar size
will not be known until shortly after
the first of the year, when a nation
al tabulation is prepared. However,
monthly totals this year have shown
Tulsa's building program has held
a high rank. November's permit
total overshadowed the totals IN
numerous cities several times its
size.
City Building Inspector Frank e.
Walter, local builders and other
business men already are predicting
| l923 will make that of 1879 lneig-
nificant in comparison. To sub
stantiate their statements they point
10 the consistent yearly increase in
building activities, especially to the
vide difference between 1897 and
1l923. They contend that the natur-
lkl impetus given to building by the
lclosing year will bring out much
NEW capital here especially since
The Sapinaw water project is now un-
der actual construction.
1T seems almost like dream
when l look back TO the time when
Tulsa was a little town OF a few
shacks and a railroad station" one
pioneer remarked yesterday. 81 ad-
NIT l couldn't get a vision of the
Tulsa today--or even of 10 years
ago. 1t seemed incredible TO think
that little village ever would be 9
thriving metropolis. The transforma
ton has been wrought and in such
a short time, that It must seem but
yesterday I sat on dry goods box in
front of the ric&ety dry goods store
on Tulsa's main street and whitfield
most Of my time away.
OH Men Optimistic.
"If Tulsa could grow 10 its present
klze from that insignificant begin
ming, am ready TO believe its popu.
ation will easily reach 250,000 with
In the next 10 years. II may bt
twice that size.".
Oil men are especially optimistic
over the petroleum induslry's out
look, not only for 1928 but for many
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