. City planning progress in the United States, 1917. Gary (about 60,000).Industrial power has perhaps never before had a simplercivic opportunity than when it brought, in 1906, vastresources to an uninhabited wilderness at Lake Michiganssouthern end. In .April, 1906, the site on which Gary islaid out was a waste of rolling sand-dunes sparsely coveredwith scrub oak and interspersed with ponds and years later, in 1909, there was a great steel plant,capable ot employing 14,000 men and covering approxi-mately a square mile, equipped with a made-to-orderharbor tor great ore freighters
. City planning progress in the United States, 1917. Gary (about 60,000).Industrial power has perhaps never before had a simplercivic opportunity than when it brought, in 1906, vastresources to an uninhabited wilderness at Lake Michiganssouthern end. In .April, 1906, the site on which Gary islaid out was a waste of rolling sand-dunes sparsely coveredwith scrub oak and interspersed with ponds and years later, in 1909, there was a great steel plant,capable ot employing 14,000 men and covering approxi-mately a square mile, equipped with a made-to-orderharbor tor great ore freighters, and a town ot 12,000inhabitants. Today, eleven years after the project wasstarted, a population of 60,000 dwells within the city otGary. Property valuation has reached fl5,ooo,ooo, andtaxes amount to nearly J500,ooo a year.* Zones.—.All the plants now at Gary occupy a stripbetween the Lake Michigan shore and the Grand Calu- *See Satellite Cities by Gratiam R. Taylor, for a full discussicinof the planning and development of Gary. LAKE . MICMIOAN. CouTlefiy D. Appleton t* Co. Gary.—The Great Steel Mills Occupy the Area Ijerween theLake Front and the Grand Calumet River. The Town LiesSouth ot the River and Its People Have No Convenient .Accessto the Lake Michigan Shore. met River, running parallel to the shore-line, a mile ormore to the .south. The residential subdivisions laid outand developed by the United States Steel Corporationthrough its subsidiary, the Gary Land Company, occupya strip inland from the river and flanking the south banksof the river. Still further south are subdivisions whichreal estate promoters are booming. The Grand CalumetRiver separates all the plants, except one, throughout thetown. The industrial site of Gary and the manufacturingfeatures were planned at the outset on an enormous scale,and every opportunity was seized that would tend toincrease the efficiency and safety of manufacturingprocesses. Chance for an Ideal Plan.—The unhampered oppor-tu
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