The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-02
Steel MILLS
OF CALUMET
GET ORDERS
Rails and Cars Will Be
Made at Gary and
Hammond.
BUILDING RANK GIVEN
indianapolis First on List;
New Plant at
CrotherSviIIe.
BUILDING RANK GIVEN
BY CHARLES G. STONE
State Editor, The Times

Activities of steel mills of the CAL
umet district feature an industrial
and business survey Of Indiana COM
pleted today. An order for $4,000
at Gary by the Chicago, Rock Island
&c Pacific Railroad Company, while
at Hammond the Pennsylvania Rail-
road has ordered $50 all-steel
coaches to cost $4,000,000. Seventeen
of the Illinois Steel Company's
twenty-three Calumet district fur
naces are in operation.
Completion of the $400,000,000
combine of the youngstown Sheet
and Tube Company and the Inland
Steel Company will probably speed
building of the Jones and Laughlin
Company plant in North Hammond.
The company has a 1,400 acre site.
Fill-in operations, which have been
under way for some time, have been
completed almost to One Hundred
and Forty Third St., near the Ham,
mond-East Chicago limits.
indianapolis First
Figures on building volume in In
diana during 1926, just announced
show various cities in the following
order: Indianapolis, first; Gary, Sec
ond; Hammond, third; FIT. Wayne,
fourth; South Bend, fifth; East Chi
cago, sixth; Evansville, seventh;
Muncie, eighth; EllShart, ninth; An
derson, tenth; Terre Haute, eleventh,
and Richmond, twelfth.
Conditions in other Indiana cities
as revealed in the weeks survey are
as follows:
PERU-The city council has
awarded the contract for the CasS
st. sewer project to cost $4,000.
ANDERSON There will be nc
change in operation of the Beaver
Products Company plant here as a
result Of the merger of the Beaver
Company and the Certain-teed
Products Corporation. The plan;
employs ITS.
Plan Furniture Factory
CROTHERSvILLE-A company
composed of local men has bought
the machinery Of the S. & G. Manu-
featuring Company, Indianapolis,
and will open a novelty furniture
making plant here. Operations
probably will begin in the spring
BLOOMINGTON-A 100000 CT
flee building is to be erected here on
Sixth ST., between Walnut and
Washington SITS.
OAKLAND CITY - Construction
of $4,000 high school building
will be started here about March IS.
MITCHELL-The loca plant of
the Lehigh Portland Cement Com
pany has resumed operations after
q two weeks shutdown.
Capacity Increased
LIMEDALE-A new kiln of 1900
barrels daily capacity has been add
ed to the plant here of the Indiana
Portland Cement Company, increas-
ing the total production facilities to
5000 barrels daily.
HARTFORD CITY - Tentative
plans have been approved for the
erection of a school building here at
q cost of $4,000.
DECATUR-Beet growers in the
area surrounding this city are SlatSd
over plans of the Holland-St Lofts
Sugar Company for handling 10000
tons OF beets during the coming sea-
son. This would mean an increase
of $4,000 tons over the annual aver
age run.
ALBANY-The Bahr Refiners Pa
per Corporation has bought the
plant and real estate of the T.. F.
Hart Paper Company. The new
company has q capital of $4,000 all
paid in. The plant has been idle.
WASHINGTON-The new Ora
ham Farms cheese factory started
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