ble mold, especially adapted
to growing potatoes, wheat and corn. Farm and orchard products were
early sources of the town's prosperity. There are now numerous
manufactures--woolen goods, agricultural engines and implements, lumber
and furniture, foundry products, musical instruments, radiators, pianos,
blankets, bicycles and flour.

975 M. GARY, Pop. 55,378. (Train 3 passes 6:47a; No. 41, 12:06p; No. 25,
8:55a; No. 19, 3:08p. Eastbound: No. 6 passes 11:06a; No. 26, 1:17p; No.
16, 2:12p; No. 22, 6:23p.)

The city of Gary was built to order. Fifteen years ago the site of the
present town was nothing but a waste of sand-dunes and swamps
intersected from east to west by the Grand Calumet and Little Calumet
Rivers. In 1906 the United States Steel Corporation broke ground here
for a series of enormous foundries and factories, first laying sewers,
water mains, gas pipes and conduits for electric wires, as well as
providing other improvements necessary for life of the city. The Steel
Corporation had chosen this site partly because of its direct connection
by water with the Lake Superior ore region, partly because of its
proximity to Chicago, and partly because it was accessible to Virginia
coal and Michigan limestone. The town was named Gary in honour of Elbert
H. Gary (b. 1846), chairman of the Board of Directors of the Steel
Corporation, and in succeeding years there came an influx of inhabitants
which has made Gary the largest city in Northern Indiana. In 1906 the
city was non-existent; in 1910 it had a population of 16,802; in 1916,
40,000; and the Federal census of 1920 showed that Gary now has more
than 55,000 inhabitants.

Gary lies 30 ft. above Lake Michigan on a deep layer of sand, once the
bed of the lake, which in prehistoric time extended several miles
farther inland. The city has a splendid harbour which has been extended
by the use of the two rivers--the Grand and the Little Calumet--both of
which have been dredged and enlarged. The heart of the town is at the
intersection of Broadway and Fifth Ave., which are lined with handsome
buildings, and it is said that within radius of 10 M. of this point,
there is a population of 125,000 people, most of whom are engaged in the
industries of the Calumet region surrounding Gary.

The early growth of the town was so rapid that facilities for taking
care of the new population were inadequate. The congestion was extreme,
and real estate speculators did thriving business