The story of Gary, Indiana . d step by step the Indians weredriven westward into the wilderness towards the setting sun, the songof the axe and the music of the saw became the accompaniment to themothers song as she sang in the twilight the lullabies of childhood. IT required seventeen years, or from 1833 to 1850, for Chicago togrow into a population of twenty-nine thousand. It took Gary twoyears, or from 1906 to 1908, to grow into a population of fifteenthousand. The next ten years of Chicagos history, or from 1850 toi860, its population grew to be one hundred and nine will Gary
The story of Gary, Indiana . d step by step the Indians weredriven westward into the wilderness towards the setting sun, the songof the axe and the music of the saw became the accompaniment to themothers song as she sang in the twilight the lullabies of childhood. IT required seventeen years, or from 1833 to 1850, for Chicago togrow into a population of twenty-nine thousand. It took Gary twoyears, or from 1906 to 1908, to grow into a population of fifteenthousand. The next ten years of Chicagos history, or from 1850 toi860, its population grew to be one hundred and nine will Gary do in the next ten years, where sixty-five thousandmen will be employed, every working day, where the fires never goout, and where the nights will be illuminated for miles about by thegreat furnace fires of the worlds greatest industry? READER, do you want an interest in this great manufacturingcenter 7iozv, when you can get it at a mere fraction of what itwill be worth in three to five vears from now? or are you willing to. Broadway and Seventh Avenue, looking i, 1908. watch this great Pitts-burg of the west growinto a population oitwo hundred and fiftythousand people with-out profiting by thedevelopment and in-crease in values thatalways have and al-ways will follow theinvestment of enormous capital in industrial enterprises of this kind,and refer to it five years from now as the opportunity you cast aside ? THIS is an age of large things. Fifty years ago the combinedmanufacturing interests of this continent could not have built aplace like Gary; but this is a day of quick action ; it is a rapid age ;it is the day of the trained man whose hands are wired to his brain;it is the age of combination of capital and men. The great fortunesare made now by the men who, seeing the opportunities, know enoughto grasp them. The opportunity oi your life is knocking at your you receive it or reject it? THE great development of the next twenty-five years will be in
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