The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-06
Inou.tr,a, and Trade Notes.

The proprietors Of the South Side foundry
enlarging their buildings on Shelby street to
enable them to increase their force OF molders.
The Indianapolis glue-works are fitting to
heat their boilers with natural gas which tho
Broad Ripple company run within three squares
of their establishment. will furnish
Within the last ninety days three new estab-
lishments which furnish natural-gas supplies.
pipe. ETC., have been opened In this city, and
another party is now looking for suitable
room
Lumber men are looking for busy year, and
most of the planning mills are running. stocking
up with finished lumber The door and sash
manufactures, as well, are working on full time
and full banded.
One of the manufacturers of tinware on
large scale employs eight women to do the
lighter work. He states that they accomplish
more in day than a man will, and work at 80
per cent. less wages.
The malleable iron works, which now give
employment to seven hundred men, propose to
increase their works 80 per cent. this spring.
They quite anxious to obtain gas to reduce
their fuel bill, which last year reached $36, OO0
The Byrkit Sheathing and Lath Company
will to-day remove their principal Office from
this city to Chicago. They will. however, con-
tinue branch Office here, and still have their
machines built at Indianapolis machine shops
The United States encaustie fireworks are
furnishing thing for floors in the new court
house at Hamilton, O. Most of the work they
are turning out is for stocking up houses
on the Pacific coast which handle their goods
The Indianapolis curled hair-works, which
last year manufactured 400, 600 pounds OF
curled hair is enlarging its establishment, and
will increase its capacity 80 per cent The
product is shipped largely to New England and
the Pacific coast.
The work of cutting ice has been suspended,
and the ice men think that there will be no
more weather cold enough to make good ice,
judcin from their experience in the past. There
is about rs per cent much ice in store now as
there was at the corresponding period, 1887
The v ancsmp Canning Company have already
contracted with growers of tomatoes on twelve
hundred acres of land for their next years pro-
average yield of twslve hundred acres will fur
nish tomatoes sufficient to fill 5000, 600 twopound
cans.
The United States steel wire and nai-works
will this week let the contract for their new
buildings The improvements they propose to
make will cost several thousand dollars. and en-
able them to increase their production 100 per
cent. The works are now two months behind in
their orders.
Laycock & Co., who were burned out few
weeks ago and rebuilt with brick. have the ma
chinery in two stories of their building in place,
and are beginning to fill orders for spring mat
tresses and coiled springs. They already have
forty-fve men and women at work. and in
thirty days will have their usual number of
hands employed.
The few days of milder weather last week
caused brisk demand for brick in winter
month. Jesse Adams, one of the largest brick
manufacturers in the city. says that he fears
the present stock of brick will not last until new
brick are on the market Already the demand
is far in advance Of that of the corresponding
period last year.
The coal dealers are said to have made more
clear money the past winter than in any former
year. They are still enabled to keep prices up
to the high figures of the fall and winter, not
withs5anding the fact that all descriptions of
coal ara III large supply and are costing them
but small per cent. a ton more than at the
corresponding period in 1887
Although but three delegates are appointed by
the Builders Exchange to attend the annual
meeting of the National Builders Association,
which convenes in Cincinnati on the 7th of this
month, about fifty memb ers OF the Indianapolis
exchange have made arrrngements to be present.
| geing down over the Cincinnati. Indianapolis.
| ST. Louis and Chicago road on the evening of
| Feb. 6.
| Packers in the last two weeks have been kill
| but few hogs. Kingan & Co., last week killed
but Z 900, the smallest business they have done
| in any week for many months. There has been
/ such an Improvement in the market, however,
| that they will this week commence on more
/ extensive scale Coffin, Greenstreet & Fletcher
| will resume killing for short time it hogs can
| be had at reasonable prices.
/ The Indianapolis Foundry Company has been
reorganized, several persons with considerable
capital having become partners. increasing the
/ the weather is suitable they will put up addi-
tional buildings and largely increase their pro-
| ductive capacity, making it one Of the largest
| foundries in the city. One of their special
| classes of work is railroad supplies
| The situation with the hominy mills has great
| " frightened since tho new year came in. Both
/ of the large mills full of orders and ex-
| perence but little difficulty IN getting all the
| corn OF the superior grades which they need.
New markets opening up for heir produc-
| tions every few days. Hall 6 Lilly last week
/ received large order from Quebec. and there is
| not State in the Union to which the Indianap-
| oils mills do not ship their product
/ Attractions at tho Thesters