Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — MOVING INTO INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

MOVING INTO INDIANA.

Groat Packing Hounas Leave Chicago for Lake County, lad, The details of an immense deal in real estate by the great packing firms of Armour & Co., Swift & Co., and Morris & Co., were made public on the morning of the 1-st. They have purchased 3,000 acres of land at the southern end of Lake Michigan, in Lake county, Indiana, and will remove their immense plants to that point, where they will, establish a vast manufacturing center.. The business of these three Anns alone amounts to about #150,000,000 per annum, and it is estimated that they, with oth. ers in the same and similar lines o! business who will be drawn there, will, within the next five years, gather at that point a population of 150,000 souls. The Calumet River runs through the heart of the tract and will furnish vast (lockage facilities in direct connection with Lake Michigan, which is one of the special advantages sought by the projectors of the enterprise, while at the same time the railroad facilities are perfect. The new town will have its own water supply at greatly reduced rates, and the plant will be re-» lie ved of a heavy burden of city taxation. In addition to these advantages, it is said that natural gas will be brought into the new town, and the use of this fuel wilt further oheapen the operating of the plant The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and wesee nothing but sand. 1 ! the angels come to visit us, and we only know them whan they are gone. —Georgt Elliot. i