Harlow's Weekly (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 26, 1917 Page: 4 of 16
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determining the amount of tax have been experi-
menting.
Since Mr. Black is a republican, it does not
appear clear that the organization of the oil men
at the same time that Mr. Murray announces a
program -of especial consideration for the oil men
is anything more than a coincidence, although the
seventh paragraph of Mr. Black’s schedule shows
that the oil men have a weather eye open for just
such ideas as those which seem to actuate Mr.
Murray.
Marland The preference right leases of
Lease Question E. W. Marland are now routed to
Now in Court the court for settlement, a loca-
tion that should have been picked
out long ago. Following action of four members
-of the state school land commission, Frank Gault,
E. B. Howard, Robert H. Wilson and J. L. Lyon,
authorizing the secretary of the department to ad-
vertise for bids on the leases, Governor R. L. Wil-
liams instructed the attorney general to ask for an
injunction restraining the board, of which he is a
member, from advertising them. The attorney gen-
eral acted at -once and the suit was filed in the
district court of Oklahoma county.
The action of the governor was expected, but
the suit brought by the attorney general left the four
members without authorized legal advisers, the
seventh assistant attorney general being the statu-
tory adviser of the board.
At a meeting held Tuesday, at which Superin-
tendent Wilson. President Gault and Secretary Lyon
were present, the board asked the attorney general,
if the suit be not dismissed by him, if the board
could employ private counsel at state expense to look
after their contention of the case. The hoard asked
that the renly he given at the earliest possible date,
that it might take some action In regard to defense
of the majority of the board’s contention.
The big companies which have been built from
the Marland leases now in the court for settl®w°nt
are Kav ft Kiowa Oil Comnanv. Arkansas Valley
Oil and Gas Company. ,T. L. Nation. H. M. Morgan.
Devonian Oil Comnanv. J. B. Grieves, S^lbv OH ft
Gas Company and Cosden & Comnanv. all of which
either have obtained leases or have improved some
of them.
All leases have expired, being made in May and
August of 1912 for a period of five vears. with pref-
erence right attachments. It is this right which
brought the case into court, the governor contend-
ing that such is in violation of the constitution,
and the other members -of the board being solidly
opposed to his contention. To be more exact, the
majority contends that it is not the duty of the
state to question its own laws.
Whether the majority secure legal counsel from
outside the state department, attorneys will un-
nuestionablv appear, as the value of the leases held
is so great that those holding them cannot afford
to allow the case to go bv default. A court decision
is expected earlv in October and anneal to the
supreme court will undoubtedly be made, nn matter
wh-o wins a decision in the lower court.
Tulsa Men At Tulsa a corporation, capitalized
Have Home at $1,000,000, is being formed for
Building Idea the purpose of constructing houses,
to be rented or sold.
Those promoting the project are actuated partly
by public spirit, and partly by a desire to reap a
fair return on capital. For several years rents have
been abnormally high in Tulsa, and during the pres-
ent controversy between the city and one of the two
street railway companies operating in Tulsa, the
charge has been made that some persons owning
property “close-in” have obstructed the expansion of
the street railway system, believing that the expan-
sion of the system would result in lower rents for
residence houses near the business district.
In endeavoring to secure lower rents, the Tulsa
city builders are apparently evading a mistake made
by house builders in Oklahoma City, to which the
late Edward Morris, during his visit to Oklahoma
called attention. While Mr. Morris was being taken
on a sight-seeing tour of Oklahoma City enthusiastic
real estate men took pride in calling his attention to
the fact that many five-room houses were being rent-
ed for forty and fifty dollars a month. Instead of
receiving the anticipated congratulations, the big
packing house president informed the enthusiasts
that exorbitant rents had a greater tendency than
anything he knew of to drive wage earners and the
public generally away from a city.
More recently the packing house interests have
planned to house a large number of their employes,
by erecting buildings for their employees in a sub-
urb to Oklahoma City.
The Tulsa Times is of the opinion that as an
economic principle, moderate rents, rather than ex-
orbitant rents cause a city to expand and says:
Five hundred new homes are to bo built in Tulsa
hy one corporation, it is announced. This company
will start with a capital stock of $1,000,000 and a char-
ter. The initial performance will be the building of
five hundred homes.
It is in this way that Tulsa will be built—with
this gorwth added to that which naturally comes and
to the work that is being done by enterprising real
estate men. Tulsa has been in need of just such an en-
terprise as has been formed by the business men who
will eventually put other millions into homes for the
people now here and for the thousands who will come.
The building of more homes is an absolute necessity
in Tulsa at this time. The population cannot be housed
in the buildings that are standing It overflows into
basements, into garrets and into rooms that are hardly
habitable. The standard of living will be higher when
the residents can find better habitations.
As to the real estate business In Tulsa, no city in
the country presents such opportunities. Anv house
that is placed on the market can be sold readily. Any
dwelling that is for rent is fought for by those who are
looking for homes. Tn fact ther° is a wide-spread be-
lief that if rents were lower the city would grow twice
as fast. The building of more houses is not likely to
lower rents appreciably, however, for some time. The
increasing population is a guarantee that good rents
will be paid. It should be a guarantee that more houses
will be huilt and that Tulsa will spread to twicA or
three times its present size.
Tulsa’s next step should be to get street car service
for the people who will buy and build new homes here.
That is just as necessary to the city’s growth as any-/
thing else.
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Harlow, Victor E. Harlow's Weekly (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 26, 1917, newspaper, September 26, 1917; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1600849/m1/4/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed June 22, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.