. Book of the Royal blue . gor to build a newsteel plant. In a little over two years afterthe ground was broken, this concern hadspent 540,000,000 before it was in positionto turn out a single ounce of manufacturedsteel. In this period of time the towngrew, not as a mushroom village withflimsy shacks and make-shift buildings, but amodern city with miles of well-paved streets,water supply, sewerage, newspaper, banks,hotels and street cars, with substantial build-ings of brick and stone with heavy founda-tions. In 1908 the population had reachedapproximately 12,000. There were about5,000 men at
. Book of the Royal blue . gor to build a newsteel plant. In a little over two years afterthe ground was broken, this concern hadspent 540,000,000 before it was in positionto turn out a single ounce of manufacturedsteel. In this period of time the towngrew, not as a mushroom village withflimsy shacks and make-shift buildings, but amodern city with miles of well-paved streets,water supply, sewerage, newspaper, banks,hotels and street cars, with substantial build-ings of brick and stone with heavy founda-tions. In 1908 the population had reachedapproximately 12,000. There were about5,000 men at labor in the construction workof the great steel works, while others wereemployed in building up the town. No-where in the United States, or any othercountry, can be found a duplicate of thetown of Gary. In the face of depressedcommercial conditions of the past two years,this achievement was nothing short ofmiraculous. Its convenience to thegreat ore beds of Michigan, Wisconsin andMinnesota and to the vast coal deposits of. of Gary, Ind, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia,by means of its splendid transportationfacilities, both by water and by rail; itspossibilities for a great inland harbor, and itsnearness to Chicago were considered in themaking of Gary. The mills at Gary, when finished, willmake the largest iron and steel manufactur-ing plant ever built. Nearly 7,00U acreswill be required on which to complete theentire industrial plant and furnish locationsfor its allied industries, which will have theirmain central plants at Gary. The investment in land alone for thisenterprise is claimed to be the largest in thehistory of the industrial development in theworld. The first of the series of mills,co\ering close onto 1,000 acres of ground,is almost completed. In addition to this,there will be located here the main centralplant of each of the subsidiary companiescontrolled by the United States Steel Cor-poration, namely: The American BridgeCompany, The American Tin Plate
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