The story of Gary, Indiana . mer, Elbert H. Gary, with twelve thousand tons of iron ore, having on board theic candidate for Vice President, and many other distinguished gentlemen prominent? dock, amid the enthusiastic shouts and plaudits of many thousands of residents andction of this, the worlds greatest steel mill, was there to give the order that put inle picture and spanning the largest and finest ore bins of solid cement in the world. ,*f^ /lEW IS NEARLY ONE THOUSAND ACRES. Broadway and Sixth Avenue as it appears today, November i, south, Gary Hotel on the right. feet wilder
The story of Gary, Indiana . mer, Elbert H. Gary, with twelve thousand tons of iron ore, having on board theic candidate for Vice President, and many other distinguished gentlemen prominent? dock, amid the enthusiastic shouts and plaudits of many thousands of residents andction of this, the worlds greatest steel mill, was there to give the order that put inle picture and spanning the largest and finest ore bins of solid cement in the world. ,*f^ /lEW IS NEARLY ONE THOUSAND ACRES. Broadway and Sixth Avenue as it appears today, November i, south, Gary Hotel on the right. feet wilderness of hills and ponds, today an active city of fifteenthousand people with miles of the finest streets to be found in theState of Indiana. Hotels costing upward of one hundred thousanddollars. Stores and office buildings that would do credit to a city twenty-five years old. Street car lines paying, it is said, fifty dollars per car aday profit. A water tunnel two miles under Lake Michigan, electriclights and gas, and a school now building at a cost of one hundred andninety-four thousand dollars; the finest harbor on the Great Lakes, thatwill have more tonnage when the industries are completed than the harbors of Chicagoand South Chicagocombined multipliedby two, and the great-est Iron and SteelMills in the world,built by the largest,richest and most pros-perous IndustrialGary Hotel Combination in this N. W. Corner Broadway and Sixth Avenue
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