Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-09-04

| little outside interference, should b" n
 happy and contcntcd one.
 On the site of what was little moro | than a year ago a waste of sand hill ocks and dunes, and at the point where
 the sluggish stream called the Grand
 Calumet cmptics into the lake, the new
 industrial city, which has already
 made the desert looking lands wnich
 shade off into the prairics scene of
 business activity, K rising, not slowly,
 and as process of growth in the usual
 fashion, but as rapidly as force of
 5000 men, now being constantly al
 dcd to, can build it. Originally plan.
 ned to accommodate n population of | 100000. the plans have been expanded
 to n basis of 100000. The tract of
 land in which the new industrial city
 is rapidly taking form. is 6,000 acres in extent, with lake frontage of more than six miles, and with possibilities as Co inland extension as boundlcss as lht pfdlrl'S tn'mS'lN'Hs
 Perhaps the preliminary work, most of whicn is already done, is the most interesting. as showing the rapidiiy of modern process of city construction. The sand hills and hillocks which Co voyagcrs on Lake Michigan once form ed such picturesque sight, looking on summers day, with the sun shining on them, like cumulus clouds on the horizon, have disappeared along that part of the lake. They have been lev. clcd and the sand has been used to fill up the hollow beach, the swamps of Grand Calumet and lower lying lands elsewhere in the tract. The new city by this process and by dredging. has the level of Lake Michigan, and thus the work Chicago was compelled to do aftcr its founding has been performed at Gary at it's beginning. By dredging also harbor has been formed. dccp enough to admit the heaviest freight. CTS of the Great Lakes bringing the iron from the Lake Superior region to the iron and steel mills which are the reasons for the city's existence.
 Naturally, the mills and the thous. ands of men who will be required to man them have the first place in the plans of the builders. Everything has been subordnatcd to their convenience, health and comfort, and so far the plans arc strictly severe and utilitar. ian, but the city has also been laid out with n view to architectural effect anI beauty, with parks, promenades and all the usual appurtcnances of modern city life.
 The river has been dredgcd to n uni. form width of 250 feet, spanned by steel bridges, for the accommodation of the four trunk lines of railway cen. tcring here to distribute the products of the mills, once these are completed and in full operation. To avoid .hc constant tearing up of streets for gas. water and electric mains and condui.s, which is the bane of older cities, which grew and were not planned and built, all pipes and mains in Gary are laid in the alleys, each at n certain level, thereby avoiding the confusion worse in cities where pipe lay. ing is matter of emergency and sug- gests n mighty maze without n plan. In Gary everything is planned ana everything bears the stamp of today. Nothing Is left unprovided that expert. cncs has shown to bc requisite in n model twentieth century city. IL even nns s Broadway three miles long, with | sidewalks. and with two miles on each side of business blocks. It will not be altogether devoted to business, but will have parks, playgrounds, th1. nters and opera houses. These, how ever, will naturally come later, though when they do come they will fit har- noniously into the general plan.
 Gary is not to be another Pullman, put city which has had the benefit of hat notable experiment and consc. luently an improvement upon it. How lar it will justify the large and gen. 'rous hopes of it's founders is n auss. ion that will be partly answered at east in tine near future.