The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-23
Industrial and Trade Notes.

Pearson s. wetzel paid last week $617 duty on
thirty-nins crates of English earthenware.
Last week Dean Brothers shipped seven Of
their steam pumps TO misunderstanding stablisn-
menss in Cincinnati.
Five of thu largest shresher, and reaper and
mower and two plow manufactures make In
dianapol1s one of their most important distrib-
uting points.
large boilers for 81. Hermann, of Evansville.
Mr.. Herman is making extensive repairs to his
factory in that city.
The Indianapolis Stove Company. which has
eral repairs were going on. will resume opera
tons about the middle of the week.
The Indianapolis Gray Iron Foundry Company
has been awarded the contract to furnish all the
pie Natural-gas Company and the Bse-line shops
in Brightwood.
The thresher and reaper companies represent
ed here by FL. G. Fairbanks will at once COM
North street. on ground formerly occupied By
the Bes-line shops.
D. e. Stone g. Co.. manufacturers Of fancy
desks and tables, preparing to enlarge their
factory. They now give employment TO about
seventy men, bat unable to fill orders as
promptly as they desire.
One of the largest contractors here states that
the new buildings already under contract will
require twelve million brick, and If the build
ines talked of are erected they will require
twenty million additional
The large business the wholesale dealers in
agricultural implements have been doing for the
last thirty days indicates that the farmers are
not so much alarmed about the crops Of this
year the spectators and chronic
grumblers
In a couple of weeks contractors Pearson will
commences the erection of the seven additional
buildings which the Woodburn-Savern Wheel
Company is TO erect on it's Westside grounds.
The work 10 waiting for the new brick to come
on to the market.
Tho Tidal Copnnanv ia IN aracf
at once additional buildings for itS wood de-
partment. Never have the orders Of this COM
pany been so numerous. Chicago house. last
week. sent in an order for four carloads OF she
company's goods.
The Indianapolis Veneering Company is put
ting up large addition TO the main building.
II VIII be eighty-sx feet long by rnirty-slx Feet
wide and three stories high. This company
ship veneering largely to New England, and
frequently fill foreign orders.
The Indianapolis Terra Gotta Company was
TO furnish the terra Gotta trimmings forsths st:
Vincent Hospital, to be erected on the corner of
South and Delaware streets. The contract will
call for about Sc. 600.
Nicholas McCarty and others owning property
on the West Side last week get out over 800
shade trees along both sides of Oliver, Marion
Birch and Cottage avenues. Between the road
way and sidewalks there will be q grass plat
some twelve feet wide.
The Indianapolis Organ Company has just
completed building three stories high and 100
feet long by sixty wide, in which it will manu-
facture all sizes of organs. The making of
church organs will be a speciality. Thomas San
born will be at the head of the establishment.
He built the large organs at the First Baptist
Roberts Park and Plymouth churches.
The Indianapolis Cabinet Company, in the
first quarter of this year. increased its product
SO per cent over the same period of 1887. Last
week 1873 desks were shipped to points in Texas
and Mexico. Shipments were also made to
Barcelona Spain. London. England, and the
Argentine Republic, and to the City of Mexico.
The company will let next week q contract for
q large warehouse