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Title: Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Benedict, John Downing, 1854-
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Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ts which had dared to disputewith him for the right of way. Captain Reeves was the first presi-dent of the street car company and managed the system for someyears after its organization. The street car company of today operates thirty-three miles oftrack, with lines extending out in ten directions from the businesssection of the city and employs a force of sixty-five men. Throughcareless, indifferent management, the rolling stock of the companyhas become somewhat dilapidated but the present managers arepromising some material improvements at an-early date. Muskogees first gas plant was completed on the 17th day ofApril, 1905. It was built by the H. M. Byllesby Company, ofChicago and was owned by the Muskogee Ice and Power Company. The Hinton Opera House was completed and dedicated to thepublic on the night of December 9, 1905, with the play entitledBabes in Toyland. Some of the seats for the opening night soldas high as $20. each, and the first nights receipts amounted toabout $9,000.
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MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 417MUSKOGEE ICE & POWER CO. A few, little, private light and power plants were installedduring the last decade of the past century, but immediately follow-ing that famous fire of February 23, 1899, which event the oldsettlers regard as the death of the old and the birth of the newMuskogee, Clarence Turner induced a few friends to join him inbuilding a combined plant which would furnish the town with anadequate supply of ice, electric light and power, and the MuskogeeIce & Power Co. was organized and a plant erected on SouthCherokee Street at a cost of $30,000. It was regarded as a greatimprovement for the town at the time it was put in operation, andit supplied the citys needs for several years, but the rapid growthof the city soon made it necessary to rebuild and very materiallyenlarge the plant. On March 1, 1903, this plant was sold to H. M. Byllesby & Co.,of Chicago, and has been enlarged from time to time, to meet theincreasing demand

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