Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1919 — OJIBWAY, NEW STEEL CITY [ARTICLE]

OJIBWAY, NEW STEEL CITY

LOCAL PARTIES INVEST IN THE NEW GARY OF CANADA. Charles Paxton, Harvey Davisson I and Harry Kemper returned Monday afternoon from a trip to Detroit and the steel city of Ojibway, Canada, which is being built across the river from Detroit. The United States Steel corporation is building this city, which is to be another Gary. Seventy-five million dollars will be spent on this plant and work is actively under way on the buildings and the harbor. The plant will have sixteen blast furnaces, two more than at Gary. Expenditures to the amount of $40,000,000 are now being made. The preliminary work is now well advanced and one of the two large blast furnaces that are being finished in connection with the present program is already well on the way towards completion. Steel is being fabricated in the American mills of the corporation for plant units, and the site will be considerably transformed during the next eight months. A suction dredge is now at work removing earth in the channel between the car and coal docks and much of the 2,400 feet has already been traversed. Work on the plant is going on night and day, work not even being stopped on Sunday. , Lots are being sold rapidly and the visitors are so well impressed with the new city that they all bought lots while there, Mr. Davisson buying three, Mr. Paxton two pnd Harry Kemper one. Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Catt visited the new city recently and were so well impressed with what they found there that they purchased five lots in different parts of the city. .... Others in Rensselaer and vicinity have expressed their intention of investing in lots in the new city and others will visit Ojibway in the near future to see the work being done there.

See the Grivellea plant for Xmas at W.-J. Wright’s window. Fine Boston ferns for Xmas. Xmas wreaths being made now. Many fine gifts at HOLDEN’S.