The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
authorized to date Is as follows:

I authorized to date Is as follows:
 Eight 45O-ton per day blast furnaces,
 with the necessary vessel slip, ore unload 1 ing and storing facilities, power houses, pig casting plant, and other auxiliaries. 1 Fffty-six 69-ton open-hearth furnaces, estimated to produce 22o, 900 tons of ingots per month
 l Rail mill, with a capacity of 100000 tons 1 of rails per month.
 l Billet mill, with a capacity of 100000 1 tons of billets per month.
 l One 4S-ton universal plate mill
 One 16O-ton sheared plate mill. 1 Merchant mills, with a capacity of 50 l 900 tons per month
 Complete equipment of mechanical l shops.
 1 Administration building. Progress in Construction.
 The progress made in the construction l of the work Is as follows:
 1 The vessel slip, which is 250 feet wide | and which is to extend inland 5000 feet
 and from the shore line 2OOO feet into the l lake, has been excavated to approxi- I mately 2500 feet inland; the two docks l forming the side of the slip into the lake I are well under way, the piling and l sheathing having been completed for | nearly the entire distance.
 l The ore unloaders have been completed I and the ore bridge and bins well toward | completion.
 | The iron work on four blast furnaces is practically completed, and the founda- 1 tions for the second four are ready to re- ceive the ironwork
 l In the steel producing department one l open hearth unit, consisting of 14 Cotton !. furnaces, with hot metal mixer and other | auxiliaries Is practically completed, and ! the foundations for the second unit are completed and erection of the steel super structure has been started. 1 On the rail mill the foundations and the | buildings are nearing completion. The | erection of the machinery is well ad- l vanced.
 l On the billet mill part of the excava- | ton and foundation work has been con- 1 pleted Seventy-five per cent of the ma : | chinery for this mill has been contracted | for and is now being constructed. For the plate mill and the merchant mill only the plans have been completed l The shop equipment, including machine l shop, boiler shop, boundary, blacksmith, | carpenter and pattern shops, pattern | storage shop, roll shop and general stor- l age building, is practically completed and 1 fin operation.
 l The electric power plant, which Is to
 I furnish power for driving all the mills III the great pldHt, diSo TOT pumping wa l ter and for lighting the city of Gary is one-half erected and in operation. The power house, when completed, will be | 969 feet long and 107 feet wide In the | half of the building now completed are ! the foundations for the nine huge gas | engines and two steam turbines. The | foundations for the other half of the l building and machinery are well under way. There will be installed in this l plant, all told, F 3O00-horse power gas | driven generators and two 2500-horse power steam turbines It is claimed thab ! this is the largest installation in d single unit of gas engines that has ever been at tempted.
 For 1s,o00 Workmen. Upon the construction of these i'm mense plants 45O0 men have been em- ployed. When they are fully completed and in operation they will give employ ment within their grim and grimy walls to 1S,O00 workmen.
 Nor have the railroad facilities been | forgotten. In the switching plant auxil- | iary to the steel plant are being con- structed tracks with capacity of 6S 900 freight cars at one time. When the plant is in operation it is expected to consume 5,00000O tons of iron ore every year and to produce 2,5O0,OOO tons of finished steel annually, of which 100000 tons are to be steel rails.
 By Water and Rail. Lake Michigan brings the ore noun tains of the northern Michigan peninsula to the very doorstep of Gary. Already huge ore boats, rivaling even the famous liners in the Atlantic passenger service