Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1909 — HAMMOND TO GET NEW PACKING PLANT. [ARTICLE]

HAMMOND TO GET NEW PACKING PLANT.

Hammond, Ind., Aug. 28.—The great Cudahy Packing Company of Omaha has begun preparations for the construction of a colossal plant in Calumet, midway between East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, to employ two thousand men. Half a million dollars is to be expended at once on the erection of a group of buildings and on the laying of tracks and switches, and it Is estimated that by the first of the year the factory will be in operation, providing employment for between four and five hundred persons. This Industry will represent, however, only one feature of the big plant to be located at this point. An immense establishment, in which the Cudahy people propose to manufacture the cars used in their gigantic business, is one or the incidents of the new venture, and a sweet glycerin factory and a factory for the manufacture of wool felt for Insulation purposes are others. The exact cost of the entire undertaking has not been given out, but that it will reach up into the millions is assured. The tract purchased by the Cudahys embraces thirtythree acres and the price paid waß approximately $30,000.