. Book of the Royal blue . PANUKAMA OF ORE SM The Magic (. WENTY-SIX miles east ofChicago, on the southernshores of Lake Michigan,is Gary, Ind., the MagicCity of modern years ago this sec-tion of Northern Indiana was a barren wasteof sand dunes, where the cold blasts inwinter from across the lake, and the hotglare and choking dust of the land winds insummer, made animal and vegetable lifepractically impossible. For years those who have passed thisterritory on Baltimore & Ohio trains haverealized that at some future time humanprogress would overcome these physicaldiscomforts and tak
. Book of the Royal blue . PANUKAMA OF ORE SM The Magic (. WENTY-SIX miles east ofChicago, on the southernshores of Lake Michigan,is Gary, Ind., the MagicCity of modern years ago this sec-tion of Northern Indiana was a barren wasteof sand dunes, where the cold blasts inwinter from across the lake, and the hotglare and choking dust of the land winds insummer, made animal and vegetable lifepractically impossible. For years those who have passed thisterritory on Baltimore & Ohio trains haverealized that at some future time humanprogress would overcome these physicaldiscomforts and take advantage of thesuperior lake location for commercial pur-poses. It required nerve and money, and itwas for the United States Steel Corporation,with its unlimited resources and masterminds, to redeem this waste, and now aportion of the sand-mountains and pinebarrens has been transformed into one ofthe most astonishing manufacturing cities ofthe commercial age. It was only as far back as 1906 that the great corporation secured nine miles ofwater fro
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