Hammond Times, Hammond, Lake County, 17 June 1906 — Page 2

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The Canal being constructed from Indiana Harbor on Lake Michigan through East Chicago and to the Calumet River, will make this locality invincible from a manufacturing standpoint, adding to the present unexcelled railroad facilities, the advantage of direct water communication and ample dock frontage. The rapid growth and extension of the numerous large industrial plants already located in this terrihas attracted the attention of the manufacturing interests of the United States and the next few years will see a further and greater development.

View of Canal at Indiana Harbor from Lake Shore and Michigan Southwestern R. R. Bridge near Lake Michigan East Chicago and Indiana Harbor with a population of 25,000 and growing rapidly, offer to the investor or home seeker a location central and accessible by steam roads and street car to all parts of Lake County, with paved streets and all modern public utilities, and to the mauufacturer an unsurpassed locafor his plant, with unlimited water supply, an inexhaustible labor market, electric power, railroad and water connection.

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