The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-26
First Units of Plant to
Be Built This
Summer
PRELIMINARY
WORK STARTED
Sidetracks Being Laid
and Contracts Let for
4 Workers Homes

H From green fields and woode'
'Holaces where violets and other wil'
blowers are now growing undis
4urbed, in that level stretch OF farm
Hand along the Canadian shore be
low Sandwich. Ontario, and oppo
[oite old Delray. within a few shor
months will rise a great industrial
Sejty, seemingly mythical in its size
which will become the steel manu-
sActuring center of Canada.
& On the fields of old Ojibway
omsntic with Indian and French
lore, Is about to rise second
nd more wonderful city than
nary with its belching ore fur
faces and thousands OF workers.
= From confidential yet reliable
ources close to the great forces
HAT control the destinies Of the
limited State Steel corporation the
n1lowing can be stated:
THE Canadian Steel Corpora.
DoQ, Ltd. which Is the Canadian sub
S11iary Of the American Steel trust,
Ill build three steel mills in orb
S6ay during this summer.
1--within ave years the steel
1nnt It Ojibway will be employing
MOO men. and the new steel city
I'm boast . population Of close to
$4,000 souls, where now there is
SoGhing but vacant fields and few
IN houses.
e-The first actual steps In this
pcn6erful development have al.
on1y begun by the laying Of 10
1oetracks. branching out from the
Usex Terminal railway. On FRI
~. May 10, workmen began clear
- away the underbrush and
knnps to make way for these side
Hrneks. On Monday, April %, the
~ trainload of material arrived
oDue the construction of these tracks.
Z lThe building Of docks at the
oWor end Of the steel company's
eopsrty In Ojibway. between Lang
III and weaver-rds.. will be start
y inst a. soon as the 10 sidetracks
Nm b. laid to bring In the material.
GWhen the docks are complet-
y and even before that time II
oooible, the construction OF the
~ mills will begin.
AN tenants now occupying
kxm houses and shore residences
~ the steel company's property.
koyo received definite notice to va
800 BY June 1. as the company in
Eon6s to begin immediate construc-
Nm.
7-Ward B. Perley. vice-president
I'D general manager Of the Cana
IN corporation, has taken per-
ansnt residence one the property
Nth = large corps OF engineers. His
poldence will be In the old Page
&Dotdonce next to the postoffice in
Say, while the old Lloyd house
y the river front is being remodel
"a into q temporary Office building
y accommodate 200 clerks.
y II addition to the laying OF 10
D16etracks to bring in the material
or the construction of the new
nils. the Canadian Steel corpora
HIN has arranged for the immedi-
Sk&D construction of 500 homes on
IT. own property to accommodate the
lint Influx OF workmen, not only
XDOr the construction Of the mills
but for their operation as well.
q The employment OF carpenters
md laborers alone TO build these
houses will bring big measure Of
kctivity to the Canadian shore
Something that district has never
,Sxperierced before. There Is al
Boody q shortage of homes in Wind
nor and also scarcity OF labor
nut the steel trust has made pre-
variations. II is said. to obtain all tn,
labor Il needs from the states, IL 1
cAnnot be secured in the Dominion
N o. r. Fleming, prominent attor
hey OF Windsor and Essex county
: Mbo Is acting as chief counsel 70
13he Canadian steel corporation
lays the work is now actively ur
\ {1er way, and that there Is no NOR
kuesswork about the constructio
~ the mills this summer.
'1 Mr.. Perley. one of the trus
~ lleutenants OF the u. s. Ste'
Evaporation, who Is vice-presider
Nd general manager Of the Can'
E Van project, will be in close touc
tom now ON with Mr.. Fleming.
~ cost of nearly 100000 tn
nnadian Steel corporation last IA
nmpjeted new private boulevard
MI Nain-st. from Bedford-rd. Z
Grkey creek. circling its property
~ look up all the land for one an
nall miles below Sandwich and
|1e Inland. cutting on the old mai
ogoughfare along the shore. Al
rDurban cars to Amherstburg viii
~ circle around this new high
1hc meantime a new belt lin
constructed from the pres
r1nns of the Sandwich stree
~ 20 Broadway. which q
- Of the steel com
Cars running Z