The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-31
THE MAGICAL CITY OF GARY

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1t is authoritatively announced
that the United States Steel corpora
ton will invest additionally $45, 000,-
600 in the city of Gary. To those
who do not know that Gary is a Gre
alton of that great steel corporation
designed as a home for an immense
steel-producing plant, the foregoing
sentence is not Ineligible. This city,
which is consequence of these
works, is built on a large tract of
land on the shore of Lake Michigan,
in Indiana, across the lake from the
city of Chicago. In the works men
by the tens of thousands are to be
employed.
The city is intended to accommo-
date population of 100000. With
out its building there would not be
sufficient accommodations for the
men employed in the works and for
their families. So, with the wave of
a wand, the magic of which is album
dant capital, a great city is brought
into being. Work was begun two
years ago. Today what was then an
arid sand plainbears a large city.
Broadway, the chief thoroughfare,
has been constructed in its length of
three miles. For two miles it now
has pavements and sidewalks of con-
crete, and for that distance is lined
by blocks of business buildings ready
for the dealers. BY October 1st suf-
ficient number of houses will be COM
pleted in the residence districts to
shelter 5000 people. The sewerage
gas, electric and water systems are
ready for use. And now, at this
stage of development, the corpora
ton finds that it must appropriate
$45, 100000 more than it's first in
vestment of $75,O00,000, to be used
in widening the scope of its steel
plant.
There are other communities of
population of 100000 and larger, in
deed; but all of them are of natural
growth and development. Never be-
fore in the history of city building
has a city even approaching this pop
ulation sprung into existence, as it
were, overnight, as has Gary. When
it begins its municipal life it will do
so on equal terms in all it's equip
ments with those which have taken a
hundred years in which to grow 1t
is, indeed, the marvel of the day.
1t seems to be customary to call
this model city. In the term is sug-
gested that new and advanced the
cries of sociology will be applied.
There have been such cities builded,
and Pullman is notable instance.
Success has not attended them. There
is no intention on the part of the
steel corporation to make the city of
Gary model city in that sense. 1t
will have charter as other cities
have. A municipal government will
be established as in other cities. 1t
will have it's own self-government,
and it must work out it's own destiny
as other cities have-as Steelton, in
Pennsylvania, the home of the Penn
sylvania Steel Works, which it re-
sembles except in size, has done. A
was a roller man in the works ma
jority of the directors of the various
banks were employees in the mills
And they were all independent of the
steel works. The property of the
city was, in the main, possessed by
the employees. These conditions yet
ODldlH. ne expectancy Oh the great
steel corporation is that similar con-
ditions will obtain in Gary. That
wanted great works at
that point. It's tens of thousands that
would be employed must be housed,
with their families. Hence the city |
of Gary. The corporation gives to it
a fair start, and will sell it's resi-
Dental and commercial property will
|ingly to those who will buy. 1t does
not intend to assume paternalism.
1t is large-minded enterprise,
which is not to be conducted in an
tagonism to American principles or
10 the American philosophy of de-
1t was a marvellous con-
and has been carried to fru-
tion with marvellous carbohydrate |