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Show WORK IS BEGUN ON MODEL CITY To Accommodate 100,-000 100,-000 People in Lake County, Ind. PiTTC!AOO. Aorll 27 The stupendous work of building a model city to accommodate accom-modate 100,000 people was begun yesterday yester-day when 100 woodcutters were set at work clearing up a -0,00-acre traot on the shore of Lake Michigan in Lake county, Indiana. At the same time another hundred hun-dred laborers began the work of leveling level-ing the huge sand dunes to the east of the mouth of the Grand Calumet river, where the newly organized Indian Steel company proposes to build the largest steel mills In the world at a cost of 10,-600.000. 10,-600.000. The new city is to be built to accommodate ac-commodate the tollers at the mills. The carrying out of the magic plans of the company iri making a city spring suddenly from the waste of sand dunes will Involve the dredging and straightening straighten-ing of a river, the building of a harbor and the purchase of two towns, one of which will be moved across a stream. |