Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-24
A NEH CITY ABOUT 10 RISE.
ITS NAME WILL BE GARY, FOR
STEEL CORPORATIONS CHAIR
MAN.
Plant to Cost SIS, ooo, ooo-WiH be
Built in Indiana on Lake Michigan
To Change Calumet Rivers

To Change Calumet Rivers
/ Course.
Detailed plans of the mammoth
steel plant the United States Steel
/ Corporation is building in Indiana on
the shore of Lake Michigan were
| laid before the Directors of The com
/ pany at the last regular quarterly
meeting of the board. The new 9isat-,
which is to cost $75,000,O00, is to be
| built by the Indiana Steel Company,
| subsidiary organization of the Unit
| ed States Steel Corporation, formed
| for the purpose Of carrying out the
company's plans for this new steel
| plant, which will be the largest and
best equipped of its kind in the world
The plant is being built primarily to
serve the Western market, but it Is
so located that it's product can be
marketed advantageously in the East
as well as in the West.
Many of the Directors were inform
ed at yesterdays meeting of this i'm.
| portant undertaking. Frequently dur.
ed surprise at the plans which the
active officers of the company, includ-
ing E. H. Gary, Chairman OF the
Board of Directors, have worked out
for the establishment of this new
steel plant, which will eclipse all 9TH
ers.
The furnaces, rolling mills, and 9TH
er parts of the plant itself will cover
square mile, and in addition the
company owns thousands of acres
which will be used for town site, for
vast railroad yards, and for other IA
| cilities needed to insure the effective
operation of this gigantic plant. After
the meeting of the Directors yester-
day Judge Gary, after whom the toWn
which is to be built up around this
new steel plant is to be named, an
nounced some portion of the com
Iany's plans.
The plant will consist of large ag-
gregation of blast furnaces, open
hearth furnaces, and finishing mills,
but the whole is to be so thoroughly
co-ordinated that it will in fact be
single plant. There are to be sixteen
blast furnaces, eighty-four open
hearth furnaces, and six finishing
mills, some of which, individually, viii
be larger than any of the single mills
owned by the Steel Corporation.
The rail MILL for example, will be
built at a cost of $2,5OO,O0O, and will
be capable of rolling about $4,000 tons
of rails a month The first of the big
rail mills constructed by the Steel
Corporation in the Pittsburg district,
which at the time was considered a
very large mill, cost but 100000.
Some idea of the amount of matsrl-
| al which it will take to supply these
mills is gained from the company
estimate that fully 100000 tons OF
iron ore will be required by the plant
annually. This will be brought down
from the company's mines in the Lake
| Superior region, and will be brought
| in To docks Immediately adjoining the
| companys blast furnaces, which form
| the first division of the Indiana plant.
This ore will be converted into
| about 5000, 900 tons of pig iron, wnlcn
in turn will produce from 2,500,o0o
to 200, 900 tons of steel. Every ton
| of iron ore used will call for the. con-
sumption of at least another ton Oh
coal and coke. The coal for steam
PURPOSES will be brought from the In
| diana mines of the Deeriug Coal Com
nany with which the Steel Corpora
ton has a fifty-year contract, and the
coking coal from the Pocahontas coal
fields in West Virginia.
The erection of the company's plant
will require vast amount OF struc-
tural steel, the production OF which
will keep some of the companys pres
emf mills busy for many months. A
small army of men will be employed
| for two years or more in the construc-
! ton of the plant, and when 1t is COM
| pleted it will give employment to
about $4,000 men.
The location of the plant includes
a portion of the present bed of the
| Calumet River, the course OF winch
| is to be changed so that the water
way will fit in with the company $
plans for the development of the land
between the lake front and the Calu'
met River.
In addition to the Elgin, Joliet and
Eastern and the other railroads owned
by the Steel Corporation, the new
plant will be served by four great rail
road systems-the Pennsylvania, the
New York Central, the Baltimore and
Ohio. and the Wabash The Erie also
passes within easy connection of the
new plant. The Steel Corporation will
own vast railroad yards to the west
of the plant, which will DE connected
with all these railroad systems.
The Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern of the New York Central system,
the Baltimore and Ohio and the Wa
| bash are engaged in altering their
lines in the neighborhood of the new
plant so as to avoid all grade cross
| ings and to make them fit in better
with the Steel Corporations scheme
of construction. The Baltimore and
Ohio and the Lake Shore and Michi-
gan Southern will have a union sta
| ton in the town OF Gary and the
Pennsylvania and the Wabash will
have separate stations of their own.
The town of Gary. which primarily
will be the dwelling place of the men
employed in the new plant, Is expect
ed by the officers of the Steel Corpor-
alton within four or five years TO have
a population of fully 100000 people,
which will place it in the front rank
of the smaller cities of the Uniteo
States. This population would make
the town of Gary larger than Albany.
The town is to be constructed as n
model one, but the officers Of the Steel
Corporation say that no use will be
made Of fads.
Already the Steel Corporation has