Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1920 — BIG NEW PLANT FOR GARY [ARTICLE]

BIG NEW PLANT FOR GARY

National Tube Company to Erect $40,000,000 Shops. Gary, Ind., March s.—Official announcement was received here that the National Tube company will at once begin the erection in Gary of a mammoth tube plant costing $40,000,000 and giving employment to 10,000 men. Work will start next week on the construction of fourTarge blast furnaces, to be followed by the erection of miles of tube mills, shops, office buildings and other structures required for the plant. The company, which is subsidiary to the United States Steel corporation, will also construct a line of street railways into the plant at a cost of more than a million dollars.