The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-30
Industrial and Trade Notes.

E. G. Atkins s. Co. have beer reducing their
force, having decided not to stock up heavily
during the dull season, as they usually do.
Dean Brothers are making a duplex pumping
q pumping capacity of three million OF gallons
per day.
Within the last ninety lays Hetherington e.
Berner have erected in this city over 200 tons
of architectural iron-work, mostly in fronts to
business blocks
knight & Jillson last week put in natural gas
plants at Charlottesville, Herbst and Center.
Several other towns in that vicinity are prepar-
ing to use the fuel.
Last week nine more manufactures. all on the
South Side. commenced using natural gas under
their boilers. There are forty-nire manufactures
in the city now using this fuel.
The Barry Saw and Supply Company report
trade rather quiet. It is furnishing a few saws
TO Southern points, which Just now seems to be
the best market.
The Vaudalia company is putting in a side
track 400 feet long, leading from the main
track to several manufacturing establishments
which have recently been erected on the West
Side.
The Pioneer brass works are pressed with
work. The establishment is furnishing some
81. 500 worth of brass ratings and other orna-
ments for the new Union Station and has orders
for several thousand brasses for car boxes.
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putting in the foundation for the Knippenberg
Block, corner of Georgia and Pennsylvania
streets. 1t is understood that the building,
when completed, will be occupied by q fruit
canning establishment.
The Brush Electric light Company is now fur
nishipg lSo electric lights 10 the city. They re-
ouire all their present batteries and engine
power. To furnish the additional lights for the
city the company will need more batteries and
another powerful engine.
Udell & Mccoy last week purchased two
acres Of ground on the West Side. from Nicho-
las McCarty, on which they will at once erect a
building one hundred feet long by sixty wide In
which to manufacture the articles which are sold
by the Mccoy Manufacturing Company.
The Indianapolis bolt and machine-works are
doing more work now than at any time since
they commenced operations. They are now get
ting out the %shafting, engine, and other fixtures
needed for the Indianapolis stove foundry.
They also have several large orders for bolts
from car works to fill.
II. Hermann, who furnishes cut hardwood
lumber for numerous Eastern furniture manu-
factories, and also exports a good dea! of that
material. has $500 carloads of logs to forward
from his timber lands in Arkansas East, and
there is a good deal of skirmishing among the
freight men to secure this business.
The WOODBURY. Savern Wheel Company has
vacated all its buildings fronting on Illinois
street, which are south OF Garden street. They
are occupied by the Parry Cart Company. The
work which the WOODBURY. Savern Wheel Com
pany did in these buildings will now be done in
the new buildings on the West Side.
Within the last few weeks several carloads Of
horses. many of them valuable animals, have
been shipped East. Owing to a disease of some
kind among them in this city, and ia fact over
the State, in the spring of 1887, the horse-buyers
steered clear of this market, but one by one
they are returning and making liberal pur-
chases.
Wool-dealers are feeling better. There is an
increasing inquiry for wool from the Eastern
manufacturers, but prices do not improve. At
present fully $4,000 pounds of wool are held in
this market. A year ago the entire clipping
was disposed of before June 10. or in other
words. the present demand for wool appears six
weeks later than last year.
Work "a the new buildings G. II. Gillette is
erecting on the West Side is progressing finely.
The foundations to all the buildings are in, and
this week the brick walls will begin to go up.
When completed Mr.. Gillette expects to employ
In the manufacture of bent wood and wagon
material 200 men, nearly double the number he
has IN his present buildings.