The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-28
GARY INCREASES
As STEEL CENTER
el5,5OO,OO More Set Aside
for Construction Of Six
New Industries.

Gary. Ind, March 2S.-Gary's fame
% n steel center will be supplemented
by the addition of six more gigantic
Industries which the United States
Steel corporation has under way and
which IL will place in operation this
year. The sum OF $l5.50O.0OO. set
aside by the corporation at the begin
ming OF the year, will be used TO COM
plcte construction work with the
exception OF the cement plants all the
industries are now in northern In
diana.
Five thousand more men will be
employed at the outset. IL is said. and
as fast as additional mills are COM
pleted the forces will be added TO.
The construction work has been car
ried on despite the recent dullness in
the steel situation, as the big trust
asserts faith In the future needs of
the central west.
The new industries TO manufacture
their first product this year arc the
United States Steel Corporation coke
ovens, the American Sheet and Tin
Plate Company. the American Bridge
Company. the Gary Bolt and Screw
company. the two new cement plants
Of the Universal Portland CemeT
company, and the bar, plate. axle and
merchant mills of the Indiana Steel
company.
The big manufacturing industry at
Gary at the present time is the In.
diana Steel Company's mills, which
employ "a force in Gary of six thous-
and men. There arc eight blast fur
naces. twenty-eight open hearth fur
Naces. a million ton rail mill and bar
and merchant mills now in operation,
and with the placing OF the new de-
partments in commission the output
will be increased by one-third.
Steel from the Gary works will be
supplied to the American Bridge Com
pany which has completed one unit
and which will have two units In Op.
Grafton some time this summer. The
bridge works will have n monthly
capacity of ten thousand tons of bridge
and heavy structural material. Con
struction work in this industry was
started early in 1910
Drying fires have been lighted in
the 500 by.product coke ovens of the
corporation, and the first coke will
he produced in April. These ovens.
which cost $500. 900 will give employ
ment to $50 men. They will have an
annual production of 100000 tons.
and the gas generated will be suffi-
cient to operate all big mills in Gary.
Now approaching completion are
the twenty-five mills of the American
Sheet and Tinplate company. which
adjoins the steel works. Four Of the
jobbing mills will turn out their first
product In April, while i'm August it
IL expected that two plate mills and
sixteen sheet mills will be placed on
the active list. II Is intended to
make the Gary tinplate plant the
largest In the world by eventually
building ninety-six mills.
Of the Universal Portland Cement
company. n steel corporation subsi-
Diary. will increase its annual produc.
ton by four million barrels, which
represents onc-third the present to.
tai cement output of the corporation.
Stag from the Barry and South Chica.
go blast furnaces, formerly dumped
into the lake. is the principal constit.
ucnt used In its manufacture.
Late In the fall the factory of the
Gary Bolt and Screw company. a con.
Germ which removed to Gary from