The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-12-28
Superior Mailing Company
Purchasers of Hawkeye
Elevator, to Put Up Big
Mailing Plant Covering
Several Acres.
WILL GIVE EMPLOYMENT
TO 100 TO 200 MEN
Many Improvements in Progress and
in Contemplation for Little Suburb,
Predict Splendid What
Has Recently Been Done Is Also of
Interest and Importance

It Will be news to most people to
know that the Superior Mailing com
pany. which has purchased the Hawk
eye Elevator a at Calumet Park,
from Richard Fitzgerald, wee prosi-
dent Of the Indiana Harbor Belt rail-
way company for 100000, and will
commence at once the building Of two
large brick structures TO cost in the
neighborhood of quarter of a million
I dollars.
The new plant will cover several
acres of land and Will afford employ
ment to from 15o to 200 men William
=. Rice, the president of the Superior
Mating company, has invented a new
mailing process and his idea will be
worked out in the magnificent new con-
Germ that IS TO he added to the long
list of industries that have already 10
Gated in and around Hammond. The
malt house IS to be 200x16O and 25 feet
in height The entire plant will be
operated by electricity
Most of the people of the Calumet
region are aware of the fact that
there is such q place as Calumet Park.
fTbtEs might be able to state that it
E8important railroad crossing west
y q Yhe intersection OF Burnham ave-
We land state street IN West Ham
- y =, but there are very few who
ki ow that it is cne of the most i'm
portant railroad and Industrial centers
in this locality.
The railroad activity and industrial
development that is going on at this
place is so remarkable that it keeps
the people who call themselves resi-
dents Of Calumet Park. guessing to
know what fS IA lxfue~ rlaCa
Large Force at VI. c. Yards.
The Michigan Central railroad is now
engaged in repairing some of its
freight cars In the yards between CaIu-
met Park and Hammond and there are
thirty five or forty men employed
there. It has been rumored that this
work of car repairing is to be greatly
increased and that the railroad com
pany will soon build a plant OF very
respectable proportions for this pcr-
pose
Nine acres of land west of Calumet
Park have been sold to Arnold 4 COM
pany of Boston who are said to be
contemplating the erection Of large
shoe factory. The site is well To-
Gated as regards the belt lines and
better shipping center could probably
not be found anywhere in the region.
This company, II ~2id, also contem-
plates the building D. "A large tannery
on its property.
To the man who has not visited
Calumet Park in recent years and lie
members it as merely railw ay iunc-j
tion point for the Michigan Central
and the South Chicago and Southern
or the halfway point between Ham
mond and the white bridge" az the
Michigan Central bridge over the Calu-
met river has always been known, and
then revisits It today. the sights to be
seen there are revelation.
Good Location for Factories
mere Is no questioning the desira-
oitlty OF the territory surrounding 1t I
iof manufacturing sites and with the
industrial agents Of three belt lines
making an EFFORT ta locate industrie /
along their rights 81 way. there is no I
teIling what the future has in store
for Calumet Park
one point in It's favor il It's accessa
biity IL is located near tbe inter
section of state street ana Rurnbam
avenue. State stree Is tEe nrincinal
thoroughfare Of Hammond ana west
Hammond and Burnham avenne is the
first north and south thorousbfare that
crosses the NsranU CatDMet river west
cf Holman street
During the busy season when the
car works at Hegewisch are iii fun on
era,ion. taere are 800 people VINO waik
y work there from their homes IN
West Hemmond The distance is onlv
mile and half and the close prov-
unity Of IIegewisch is appreciates
when these throngs of workingmen are
seen walking back and forth to worA
every day.
Improvement of River Eagerly Awaited
But the one thing t. which the nao-
pie of Calumet Park are looking for
ward more eagerly than any other il
the Improvement of the Calumet river
Appropriations have ALREADY been
made for the widening and deepening
of the river as far as Calumet Park
and as soon as the improvements are
made large ships will be able to make
their way from the harbor at south
Chicago to Calumet Park and there de-
pestt their cargoes OF grain in the ele
Vators that are soon TO be built along
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