Industries of Gary.— In the year 1916 the various plants of the steel corporation and its subsidiary companies are giving employment to 18,000 men. When fully completed, these plants are capable of giving employment to 40,000 men. The Gary Bolt and Screw Works, an independent industry, began operations in 1912, giving employment to 1,000 persons at the start and has since greatly extended its oper ations. In the spring of 1912 the Baldwin Locomotive Company purchased a site adjacent to the city limits on the west. Other inde pendent industries and fabricating plants are locating in Gary. During the first six years of its existence, the supply of houses in Gary for mill employees fell far short of the demand and thousands of the mill workers were forced to live in surrounding towns and cities. In 1911 nearly 1,000 homes were erected and more than 1,500 dwellings were planned for erection in 1912. The principal commercial artery of the city — Broadway— is 100 feet wide and five miles long. Fifth avenue, the principal east and west thoroughfare, is 80 feet wide and seven miles long. Both of these streets are improved their entire length. Within a radius of 10 miles from the intersection of Broadway and Fifth avenue there is a population of 120,000 people, largely supported by the manufacturing industries of the famous Calumet region, of which the city of Gary is the centre. The steel, cement, sheet and tin plate and coke oven industries of the city occupy seven miles of the lake front and also several miles of water front upon the Grand Calumet River, which the Federal gov ernment plans to convert into a great inner harbor, connecting with Lake Michigan at Gary, Indiana Harbor and South Chicago. The largest
manufactory of Portland cement in the world, the Universal Portland Cement plant, with a daily capacity of 27,000 barrels and employing 2,500 men, is situated at Buffington, within the city limits of Gary, and is one of the subsidiary interests of the United States Steel Corporation. In the southern part of the city is located the Fairweight Scale plant, employing 500 men and covering nearly 20 acres of ground with its buildings and yards. The city hall, at the corner of Seventh avenue and Massachusetts street, would be a credit to a city of 250,000, while the new union station at Third avenue and Broadway, costing $250,000, is adequate to the comfort and needs of a city of 500,000 popu lation. Although the city of Gary was only 10 years old in 1916 the assessed valuation of real estate aggregated a total of $28,000,000. The city of Gary through its park board has established a boulevard system, and has started condemnation proceedings for a park on the lake front. This will add very much indeed to the desirability of Gary as a residence city. The sFeding-up of the steel and ancillary industries for war purposes brought about in creased prosperity to Gary and added thousands to its population.
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