The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-27
Mill
||OJIBMAY
us ASSURED
lrDt Units of Plant to
Be Built This
Summer
PRELIMINARY
WORK STARTED
idetracks Being Laid
and Contracts Let for
Workers Homes

y
|n1nces where violets and other wild
Blowers are now growing undis'
hurled, in that level stretch of farm
<1And along the Canadian shore be.
NV Sandwich, Ontario. and oppo-
<0ite old Delray. within few short
nonths Will rise a great industrial
GlGy, seemingly mythical in its size,
(which will become the steel manu-
fncturing center of Canada.
M On the fields Of old Ojibway
omantic with Indian and French
ore, is about to rise second
Snd more wonderful city than
ory with its belching ore fur
Hoces and thousands of workers.
M From confidential yet reliable
<ources close to the great forces
nnt control the destinies of the
yn1hed State Steel corporation the
r1Iowing can be stated:
1.-THE Canadian Steel Corpora
Hen, Ltd. which is the Canadian sub
1111ry OF the American Steel trust,
I'M build three steel mills in Ojib-
yUny during this summer.
within five years the steel
|&1nnt at Ojibway will be employing
Hoo0 men, and the new steel city
Nm boast q population OF close 10
noNo0 souls. where now there is
nlhlng but vacant fields and few
I'm houses.
THE nrst actual steps In this
n6erful development have al
ooAy begun by the laying of 10
n1otyacks, branching out from the
Soe3 Terminal railway. On Fri
-, May 10, workmen began clear
= away the underbrush and
nnpe TO make way for these side
acks. On Monday, April %, the
80 trainload OF material arrived
- the construction of these tracks.
The building of docks at the
|oRor end OF the steel company's
Guperty In Ojibway. between Lang
o1o and weaver-rds.. viii be start
~ 5oGt % soon as the 10 sidetracks
In b laid to bring In the material
When the docks are complet-
md even before that time II
o11le. the construction Of the
80 niIls win begin.
AL tenants now occupying
- houses and shore residences
W ~ steel company's property.
uSU roceived definite notice to va
noo ~ June 1. as the company In
~ 70 begin immediate construc-
= --Ward B. Perley. vice-president
n1 general manager OF the Cana
- corporation. has taken per-
nnout residence on the property
|@(1eb : large corps of engineers. His
|Dno6once will be In the old Page
o1once next to the postoffice In
Day, while the old Lloyd house
y ne river front is being remodel
ri into temporary office building
o accomodate 200 clerks.
u addition to the laying OF 10
1o<racks to bring In the material
Foug the construction OF the new
Lnl1ln. the Canadian Steel corpora
IN has arranged for the immedi-
- construction OF 500 homes on
m own property to accommodate the
(IySt Influx Of workmen, not only
~ the construction OF the mills,
~ for their operation as well.
The employment Of carpenters
1n6 laborers alone 10 build these
Douses will bring big measure OF
nGtivity TO the Canadian shore
onnething that district has never
Gperierced before. There is al
@oGy shortage OF homes in Wind
- and also scarcity OF labor.
MT the steel trust has made pre-
Jofntione, it Is said, TO obtain all the
(o6or Il needs from the states, II II
nnnot be secured in the Dominion.
q. e. Fleming, prominent attor-
~ Of Windsor and Essex county,
NO n acting as chief counsel for
1nys the work Is low actively un.
~ way. and that there is no more
ooswurk about the construction
Z the mills this summer.
~. Perley, one of the trust
Iieutenants OF the u. s. Steel
ogDOsatjon, who Is vice presiden,
~ general manager OF the Cana
- project. will be In close touch
- now on with Mr.. Fleming.
~ = cost OF nearly 100000 the
n1ian Steel corporation last fall
D3oted n new private boulevard,
Main-st., from Bedford-rd. TO
~ creek. circling It's property,
~ mp all the land for one and
niles below Sandwich and a
nd. cutting OF the old main
Mare along the shore. All
- cars TO Amherstburg will
- around this new high
moantime new belt line
toeructed from the pres
800 0f the Sandwich street
Ii y Broa dway. which il
~ .of the steel com
Cars running to