Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1909 — TO MERGE FOUR CITIES. [ARTICLE]

TO MERGE FOUR CITIES.

Bteps Are Taken to Make One Big Town Near Illinois Border. Hammond, Ind., March s.— Mayors, manufacturers and business men of Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor met here to take preliminary steps for the amalgamation of the four cities into one municipal body. * The aggregate population is 50,000, but so rapid has been the growth of Gary that in order to get legislation the four cities have adopted the idea of amalgamation. v ' The new city is to be called Calumet and it will be seven miles long and five miles wide.