A STEEL CITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 20 December 1907, Page 4

A STEEL CITY.

In his article in the National Review 011 American affairs, Hr. Maurice Low mentions as evidence of the enormous possibilities of the United States and the confidence Americans have in their future, that the Steed Trust is spending C24.n<lU,non Oil the construction of a city that is to be the steel capital of the world. The city will he the most impressive experiment in city building the world lias known. Gary, as the newcity is called, will know no gradual growth. It will come into existence as a fully-equipped city with accommodation for 3U0.01M) souls. The. object of the Steel Trust is to do away with the freight on the iron ore to be found in immense quantities 011 the shores of Lake Superior. To bring the ore to the mills of Pittsburg is to increase the cost of production, so the trust determined to put mills near the ore. Gary is to be a model city. Everything that can lie thought of is lieing done to promote the comfort and convenience of the citizens. There will he 110 haphazard laying of water or gas mains, of drains, or electric light conduits. All pipes and wires will he led through a special tunnel, so that the streets will not have to be taken up every time repairs have to lie done. Socially and economically Gary will be as any other city. Rents will l>e governed by the conditions which prevail elsewhere, and the Garyite will pay as much for his bread as he would elsewhere. But he will have the satisfaction of knowing thai he is living in a city that is the last word in construction, and assisting in an experiment vast in its scale. Napoleonic in its conception and staggering in its audacity. Tn other countries cities grow up naturally, and an industrial capital has little fear of rivals. '' lien* is a city built deliberately and with a single purpose; millions are spent to bring the seat of manufacture nearer to the source of supply, rather than to spend millions in transporting the raw material to the place of fabrication. Tt is the American way."