Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1912 — Vast Gary Steel Plant Now Employs Nearly 7,000 Men. [ARTICLE]

Vast Gary Steel Plant Now Employs Nearly 7,000 Men.

Lake County Times. Nearly seven thousand men are at work in the Gary Steel Works at the present time. Never before has the monster steel works been so busy. For the first tome in its existence eight blast furnaces are in commission. A month hence there will be operating besides the blast furnaces forty-two open-hearth furnaces, the million-ton rail mill, the billet mill axle mill, plate mill, 10,' 12, 14 and 18-inch mills, machine shops, foundries and 560 by-product coke ovens which have a capacity equal to nearly 5,000 ovens of the'Connellsville type.' With the exception of the rail mill and a dozen open-hearths, which are now being prepared, all of the departments listed above are now in full blast : The smoke that now comes from the Gary Stem Mills, the thousands of men that come in and out of its gates, when the whittle sounds, and the reflection in the skies at night, all wean business. ‘