The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-25

(copyright, 1917. by Frank G. Carpen~
 ter.)
 Gary, Ind.
 S7 HAVE come from the iron mines a'
 the head of Lake Superior on a ll eyeel loaded with ore to the great s,eel plants here at the foot of LaNs 2 NTienigap My steamer had q caiso 19 coo tons She unloaded this in les9 thap five hours and the ore is aiready on it's way to the furnace. By the tlthe ,bts letter is published it will nave hsen made into steel. and will nave go,e ont with other sister cargoes lhto steel rails, big guns and shells anu eng thousand and one other forms lh "hioi Uncle sam is using steel in our Hs witl, the Germans Last year WnSH were still out of the war we solu So Enpland and France four or five IA'illo.' ions of steel shells and 'eo'0VV'oN" uounds of barbed wire for entansle7
 nonts That steel would have filled train of 50 ton cars as long as
 New York to Chicago. and the o9i
 wire would have been enough 10 0"''e a nine-strand hog-tight fence aroo''N the world on the line of the eq"a Noi Those were the sales of one ytai anu of only two items. They were lhhue when we had not yet begun 'o IFS ne' Now. we are in the struggle with every ato,, of muscle and every bit of ma ctincrv we can command. The govern ment is taking the produce of all the steel plants, and the output Will De greater than ever before. The plants are now backed by more than four oll- lions of capital Every worker m steer and iron has been drafted lhto the tii dustrial army and we have todaF llloio than million such men in the rehN''
 Away down here at the foot of Lahs Michigan are two of the biggest camps of this army of iron and steel. Al though officered by the United states Steel Corporation. they are now uhdet l inc government and they are hghuhg the battle after the most improVed 1 methods of modern efficiency. It is to show you something of what they arc doing that l have come here to Soutn 1 Chicago and Gary. But hrst let lae 1 show YOU how strategically the two 1 camns are located and how well they i are fitted for waging the war. They 1 are situated on the deep waters or l Lake Michigan. where the ore from the 1 mountains of Lake Superior can be 1 shot from the ships almost into the furnaces, where coal and limestone can be cheaply secured and where the steel 1 products can be rapidly transported to 1 any part of the world. The South Chicago plant is part or the city of Chicago. This section has about Se0O0 inhabitants, and the most of l them are supported by the steel works. 1 The town of Gary is just across the h. l diana boundary, about 3 miles from Chi 1 cago. It has 55,0co inhabitants, and l there are about 12,000 men at work in the mills and the furnaces. The South Chicago plant is that of the 1 Illinois Steel company. Its buildings al 1 ready cover about 400 acres, and it has more than twice as much more land ad- joining it which will eventually be used for the works. The Gary plant belongs to the Indiana Steel company, another branch of the United States Steel cor poration It is already three miles long and a mile and a quarter in width. and this whole territory is covered with struc- lures that are very mountains of steel. The towers and turrets of its furnaces stand out like mighty castles against the Sky and it's huge buildings are filled with masses of machinery that seem to