Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 171, Hammond, Lake County, 8 January 1909 — Page 12

During the years 1905 and 1906 the Gary Land Company acquired title to several thousand acres of Land in Lake County In September of 1906 it made the first sale of lots in its First Subdivision, It created Gary with the determination to make it a model city. It first put in public utilities such as sewer system, water works, gas plant, then paved business and residence streets and laid cement sidewalks. It then erected 500 modern residences costing from $1,600.00 to $10,000.00 each. The result in January, 1909, is a city of 15,000 population where fifty passenger trains stop daily. Its residences now completed and occupied cost $2,000,000.00. Broadway, its business thoroughfare, is a street one hundred feet wide and two miles in length, paved with granitoid and is lined with handsome fire proof structures. It has one National Bank, one State Bank one Trust Company, six hotels, three daily newspapers, fifteen miles of paved streets and twenty-five miles of cement sidewalks, gas, telephone, electric light and water plants, the latter with twenty-five miles of mains and a tunnel extending one and one-half miles into Lake Michigan with a daily capacity of twenty million gallons. It has four drug, twenty-five grocery, three hardware, three department, four dry goods, five clothing, two jewelry, two shoe, and two furniture stores, eight bakeries and a hospital. There are twentysix teachers employed in its public schools. It has one public school completed and occupied which cost $80,000.00 and is now erecting another which will cost $200,000.00 and will be ready for occupancy September 1st, 1909. A parochial school costing $50,000.00 will be completed March 1st, 1909. The Indiana Steel Company which is erecting one of the largest plants in the world, has completed one of the finest harbors on the Great Lakes where 750 thousond tons of iron ore were received during the Fall of 1908. This Company will eventually have sixteen blast furnaces, two of which are now in operation. shopS f the C L- S & ?" RaiIroacJ arc Iocated in Gary. The American Steel Car & Foundry Company' will commence the construction of a plant here this year. Gary has enough business houses, but there will be a demand for one thousand more homes in Gary during 1909. Houses built for rent are bringing exceptional returns. Homes built for sale are changing hands quickly. In most instances these houses are sold before completion. The Company is offering for sale residence lots in its First Subdivision, including the cost of paved street and sewerage, at remarkably low prices. GARY LAND COMPANY, GARY, INDIANA.