The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-11

CnicdSo avenue ana otner real estate |
men have deals under way
Real Site In Harbor.
The sale of real estate was not so |
active in the Harbor, in which the site, |.
| is really located. The Chicago news
papers had with one or two exceptions |
! been misinformed as to the location of
the site, and gave Hammond the credit
but the tract is in Indiana Harbor. near
| Calumet and is bounded follows:
Cline avenue on the East, Parish ave-
nue. on the west Chicago B. & O. !
Terminal tracks on the north and the
Indiana Harbor Belt, the E. j. & i.
and the South Shore line on the south.
The tract comprises $40 acres.
/ Fight Fierce One.
| The fight to secure the locomotive
works was fiercely waged for months.
Those not directly engaged in it can
i have no conception of the tremendous
influence brought to bear on both sides
by the opposing local interests and the
Chicago interests who were intent up
on securing for that city the big plant
| C. w. Hotchkiss and C. II. Geist We're
on the job night and day. They estab
ilished headquarters in Philadelphia
with force of clerks and stenograph-
ers which they kept busy on this prop
osition alone. They spared neither
time, energy nor expense in advancing
their cause If document or a map
was desired from Chicago or Indiana
Harbor. Hotchkiss trusted neither to
the mails nor to the express companies.
He wired at once for the papers to be
sent by special trusted messengers. 1t
cost away up In the thousands to swing
the deal, but 1t was cheap at tina.
i Vested In Authority.
i The most powerful influence imagin-
able was brought to bear from Chicago
is. w. vauclane who had been vested
with all but absolute authority to close
the deal at one time favored the Chi
cago site and he favored 1t strong. All
seemed lost to everybody interested in
the Indiana Harbor site. but Hotchkiss
and Geist. They kept plugging away
with the tenacity of bulldogs. Defeat
was not in their vocabulary. The
signing of the papers which made the
lbig tract in Indiana Harbor the prop
erty of the Baldwin Locomotive works
yesterday, proves what colossal grit
and untiring industry can accomplish.
Nothing short of 1t would have availed
lanything.
Il 1t Means Millions.
u The location of the Baldwin Locomo-
tive werks In Indiana Harbor, means
countless millions to this region. If it
: ended with this plant alone its bene-
! Ats would be exceeding great. but wha :
it means with the trail of smaller in
dustries locating here in its wake, is
beyond the dreams of avarice-
In the first place it means that the
!, Buckeye Steel castings company which
a year ago bought eight-five acres for
l
: as the weather win permit. The con-
/ Germ intended to do this anyhow, but
: the location of the Baldwin Locomotive
work hare cinches this. Any number
of other Industries in this vicinity, and
; a number of factory sites will be sold
, almost imediately on the strength of It,
Many VIII Profit.
: But 1t means more than this The
industries already located here will
profit immensely by the acquisition
Such concerns as the Hubbard Steel, the
American steel. the Ward-Dickey and
this Green Engineering works, as well
as other plants engaged in like occup9
ton, will enjoy new era of prosperity
! While in some of these concerns, work
had been slack, there will be renewed
activity and the plants will undoubted-
Iy increase their capacity, instead of
shutting down certain departments
which is what is being done in many
, regions where steel industries abound.
which are not so blessed this one
Awaiting Better Weather.
: Word came to c. c. Miller of the
4 Smith Miller company through officials
E of the Pennsylvania company, which is
t closely allied with the interests of the
, Buckeye steel castings company. that
q that concern awaits only the resump-
ton of favorable weather. to begin
starting work on the new plant at C,alu-
met. The lots sold yesterday by this
concern are mostly located in Chicago
: and Forsyth avenues Some of them
j We're next the odd Fellows building
9 five or six south of 14sth on Forsyth
and a half a dozen along Chicago ave.
r nue. west of Forsyth. The lots sold
a by George w Lewis are acros from
t his office in Chicago avenue and expect
Y to sell a lot more today.
Y G. c. Miller says that before week
has passed fully 100000 worn of real