The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-01-24

the railroads which will enter the tract
with spurs and switch tracks, have
been attended to, so that all Is smooth
sailing for the new plant.
MAKES STEEL CASTINGS.
The Buckeye Steel Castings company
is similar in its purposes to the Ameri-
can Steel foundries and the Hubbard
steel company. Only its operations are
on still more extensive scale. 1t will
manufacture all manner of steel cast
ings from the largest to the smallest.
1t is expected that within a year 1t
will be sufficiently advanced in con-
structfon, to employ fifteen hundred
men, although its capacity as planned
will at the end of three years make
work for $500 men, The open hearth
furnaces and main plant will be located
on the portion of the tract between
Kennedy avenue and the South Chicago
and Southern railroad right Of way
Gone of the Pennsylvania linesD, con-
tanning ~ acres. Ore docks and blast
furnaces whose construction will fol-
low the completion of the main plant.
will be located on the tract between
the railroad and the canals& The Penn
sylvania railroad has authorized the ex-
penditure of $685. 900 for trackage facili-
ties within the tract.
| The recording of the deeds yesterday
marks the close OF negotiations cover
/ ing a period Of about ten months. the
| initial inspection OF the property hav-
ing taken place IN March of last year.
| In speaking of the deal Mr. c. A West
berg, vice president of the East Chicago
company, who with secretary Beverly
Chew has been head over heals in work
Incidental to the transaction gives an
4 tn Mr. ne III
! Erskine. He said regarding it: There
was the sharpest competition for the
plant, which will rival the Inland Steel
Co.'S plant in size and the number of
it's employees The greatest credit is
due Mr.. Erskine for the acquisition of
this plant by this city. 1t has involv-
ed the relocation of the right of way
of the South Chicago and Southern
Railroad, II being moved 500 feet west
OF It's original location to give the re-
quired depth to the Kennedy avenue
tract. The property goes to the Steel
Castings company in shape that will
| require no further negotiations on
| their part. all of the preliminary work
Of securing proper track connection
with the Pennsylvania and New York
Central lines having been completed by
Mr.. Erskine."
| The deeds affecting the change in
the right OF way of the south Chicago
and Southern railroad were filed stimuli
taneousIy with the deeds for the prop
erty were deeds for the Indiana
arbor Belt Railroad connection through
the Michigan avenue addition owned by
the Indiana Harbor Realty company
The last named addition. incidentally
will be tremendously enhanced in value
by the location Of the new plant. The
addition, side of which is directly
| across from the One Hundred and
Forty first street frontage of the tract
purchased by the Buckeye people. is
the only available residence property
within some distance of the IS acre
tract bought by the new concern, and
the lots will go like hot cakes to those
who desire to build homes for the men
to be employed by the big plant.
The Buckeye Steel Castings company
is the first purely Eastern concern
which might be termed OF the indie
pendent steel interests to locate in the
Calumet district and Is looked upon
as the forerunner of many more that
will have to have a western plant tic
compete with the steel corporation
plants at Gary.
The officers of the company are as
lIOHOWS- r buSH preSiueut anu gen
eral manager; r. S. Warner. vice presi
dent: F. Rockefeller. second vice presi-
dent; c. B. Goodspeed, third vice presi-
dent; Arno Eherlein, secretary and
treasurer. The main office and works
are al present in Columbus, Ohio. but
the East Chicago plant will be much
larger than the one in Columbus which
employees only fifteen hundred men.
/ The Chicago offices for the concern are
in the Railway Exchange building
The main products are Buckeye" and
] Major" car couplers and all kinds OF
steel castings.
S. p. Bush the president of the com
pany said yesterday in discussing the
steel outlook for the country at large:
/ Il believe the next two or three months
/ will see greater activity in the steel
industry than this country has ever
known before"