The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-24
TULSA ON EVE OF
HER BEST YEAR
Program of improvements
Call fo, Expenditure
OF S22,000,000
SPAVINAW JOB BEGUN
Bringing of Ozark Water Here
and Mayo Hotel Are Two
Greatest Projects

The building history OF Tulsa is
ip the making. II Is difficult to go
auv place in the city without hear
irg the clang Of steel and hammers,
ha racuous snort Of steam shovels
ar without seeing men, tiny as ants,
working high in the air on the gaunt
staleton OF q half-completed sky
.,r.ror some sixty miles away the
v,sy .4 being cleared for construC-
,Ior Of the plant that is to bring
.rom the ozark hills Spavinaw wa
ter To the just completed 104-mile
yrorram of hard-surfaced concrete
highways another 80 miles will
urolably be added within the next
Two years and within the last 80
days contracts have been let for the
romrletion Of the 100000 storm
sewer that will drain University
HEIGHTS and Kendall additions.
with the month OF November and
H5 record breaking building permi.
ta.9l of more than 100000 just
bacame history, Tulsa Is on the eve
OF "a year that will see the eXpendi-
ure OF approximately $22.000,000
on building of various kinds. This
program includes { h e Spavinaw
water plant, highways and storm
sewer as well as actual construction
Of buildings.
Largest IN State.
} Not only the largest building in
tulsa but in the state as well, the
construction Of the Mayo hotel Is
perhaps outstanding in Tulsa's
building program for the year APP
prox. mately $4,000 h a already
been spent on excavations and
foundations, according to Clarence
3. Douglas, secretary Of the Mayo
Hotel company and the completed
building will cost more than $1,000
coo. Covering a quarter Of block,
the hotel Will have 600 guest rooms
with baths, accommodating 1000
guests Il Will be Is stories above
the grade with basement and SUBJ
basement and VIII be of steel
trimmed with terra Gotta and brick.
c.. A. Mayo and John D. Mayo, the
president ana vice president Of the
company built and are the owners
Of the Mayo and Petroleum office
buildings, each of them 10 stories
high
There are large number OF Of
flee church and bank buildings now
in the process OF construction, aside
from the Masonic buildings, The
Exchange National bank is invest
ing approximately s1,2OO,000 In the
addition to its 12-story building.
which will virtually double it's lobby
and Will duplicate in height the pres
ent building. The bank. ans tho oil
offices of the Standard Oil company
OF Indiana the Standard OIL of
louisiana and the Standard Oil OF
Wyoming as well as other oil com
panles in the Mid-Conpnent field
will occupy the building.
The Naaonal Bank Of Commerce
10 81 uen nNfA hlrrh
exterior OF this building is virtually
complete. The CentRal National bank,
according to announcement by its
president, j. +. Crosbie is to build a
i5-story bank and office building
during the coming year.
Churches Active.
The First Church Of Christ, Sclen-
tlst Is completing and expects to be
able to use the auditorium OF its
new building early in 1923. The
First Methodist Episcopal church is
making progress upon its new
church home and Will begin con-
structiOn on the auditorium soon,
and the Trinity Episcopal church
congregation is now meeting in the
crypt with plans to have the entire
chruch building completed, II pos
sible, by the end of the year 1928.
AAE LllItt tHuIcu DuliOlnBS dEBTe"
gate an approximate expenditure OF
$500. 600.
Excavation IS about completed for
the $3.50, GOO Shrine temple and
mosque at Fourth and Denver and
the Masonic temple on South Bos-
Ton Will be finished next year. This
Is to cost s400,0 900.
The steel structure IS up for the
lO-story Thompson building at Fifth
and Boston. The Gillette building at
Eourth and Boulder, a 10-story Of
ice building is under construction
ana Will be given over largely to oil
companies, with two floors each
given over to the Gillette interests
and the Empire company.
The Atlas Life Insurance building,
"a stories high, has been finished
curing the past year, DR.. Walter =.
wright has completed an eight
story office building and the local
fosd agency will soon complete one
, OK the largest automobile service and
assembling buildings IN the state.
The Tulsa County Free Fair asso-
e.auon plant to be erected on the
ssV-acre tract accepted from the In
ulstrlal and Livestock exposition
ana The 100000 horse show pavilion
aaJoln!ng are two building projects
ulat are as yet plans for the coming
year and are included in the build
ing program.