Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1915 — MILLION’S TO BE SPENT. [ARTICLE]

MILLION’S TO BE SPENT.

Contracts Are Let for . Additions to Steel Plants at—Gary. Gary. Ind., Nov. 26.—-Contracts amounting to millions of dollars have been let bv the United States Steel Corporation for extensions to its Gary plants. The Allis-Chalmers company of Milwaukee, will build $1,650,000 worth of gasoline engines for the Indiana Stfel Company. Foundations for the Indiana company’s new blast furnaces will be built by the Illinois Improvement and Ballast Company, which also has the foundation contracts for the new tin mills of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company. A. P. Hartigan, of East Chicago, has the tin mills grading contract and the Pennsylvania engineering works, of Newcastle, Pa., will make machinery of the Indiana Steel Company's Bessemer duplex plant. Twenty-seven locomotives have been ordered from the American Locomotive Company for the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern railway. The transportation line is owned by the steel corporation.