The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-20
Industrial aud Trade Notes.

BATTLE OF ATLANTA CYCLORAMA-Market
street, between Illinois and Tennessee streets. day
and evening.
Industrial aud Trade Notes.
Geisendo-ff s. Co. are running their WOODEN
mill every other night until 10 o'clock. so pressed
are they with orders.
The Jenney Electric Company on Saturday re-
ceive d an order from the Coshocton. o., Gas
Company for a $l2, 600 electric-light plant
Negotiations are pending which will probably
result in the converting Of the Indianapolis steel
rail mill into . steel wire mandatory. The
question 10 to be settled within a few days.
The Touring mills all over the city are being
run to their full capacity. There is a better de-
mAnd for -four than there has been Ia many
months and prices are considerably stronger.
The Byrkit Lath and Shsating Company il
pressed with orders for machines. By an i'm
provemen in recent devices the machines will,
manufacture sheating four, six or eight inches
Ia width.
The new buildings on the West Sids. in pro-
cess OF erection for c. II. Gillette. are ready for
the roof. Mr.. Gillette thinks that by Sept. Is
he will have us men At work at his new estab-
lishment
At the theee corn and tomato canning estab-
'lishments, watch includes the one at Green
wood. there are now over 1000 persons en-
ployed- Seventy per cent. of them are women
and girls.
0kkOb " 1ASEoIt hoN0 pioCluk
their machinery in position ir their new build
ing, and when completed it will be one of ehe
largest and most complete bakeries west of the
Allsghenies.
j. NJ. Judah has just completed. on South
Delaware street, . new three-story block spe-
clally designed for . commission house, and IL
has been rented for q term Of years by L. F.
Adams 81 Co.
The Indianapolis Wheel Company will short
~ shut down for a few days to make improve
ments. Among other things an additional boil
or will be put in, making four that 1t will then
have in service.
Potts & Co. last week shipped one OF their
disintegrators. especially adapted to brick-mak-
ing. TO Kings Mill. O., where 1t is 20 be used in
pulverizing ~ssltpetre TO be used in the manu-
facture Of powder.
Chandler & Taylor have. since the LIST of the
month, shipped several Of their large-sized en-
gines to eastern Pennsylvania. For some
months past the demand for the engine they
manufacture has been large
One Of the wool-dealers disposed of 100, 900
pounds of wool to an Eastern buyer, last week,
at prices which he could accept. There are
still over GOO. 900 pounds of wool held In this
market on the expectation of better prices.
Ga Saturday last parties were here from Belle
f~cntaine, o.. negotiating for machinery to be
used in the manufacture of cement An estab-
lishment to manufacture it on an extensive
scale is to be built at Bellefontaine by these
parties.
Z. G. Atkins g. Co. have recently received
several large orders for their saws from Pacific
coast points. Band saws especially are in de-
mand on tho Pacific slope, as nearly oil the new
mills going up are being fitted to use this class
Of saws.
At several Of tho manufactures machinsry
and appurtenances are being flushed for ex-
hibition at the coming State fair. The indus
tries OF Indianapolis, it Is stated, will be much
more literally represented this year than at any
fair IN several years past.
Dean Brothers are 30 pressed with orders that
they are running fourteen hours out or the
twenty-four. The mandatory last week ship
ped O pump to Marshalltown Ia, Weighing four
TON. and one of their improved aircompressegs
was sent to the ST. Louis shovel-works.
Ice men state that they have sold in the last
twelve weeks double the tonnage of ice they did
in the corresponding period last year. They at
tribute their large sales chiefly TO the low prices
at (which Ice is selling this season. Old patrons
use 1t more freely and new customers are num-
erous
Within the last fifteen months l20housss have
been built on the West Side. where the parties
who built them were enabled to do Sc through
the building loan associations, and it is further
stated that . larger number have been built at
Haughville and near by through the same
financial aid.
Ono OF the Indianapolis woolen-mills since the
first OF this month has received orders from
Missouri amounting TO several thousand dollars.
Missouri 10 becoming an excellent market for
many CT the goods manufactured 1t indisnapo-
lis. Shipments Of furniture, lounges, ETC..
especially, are large to that State.
The assured good crops are already helping
many Of the Industries. The lumber and the
planing-mill mon state that the Last few DAYS
farmers are ordering lumber to make improve
meuts which were delay ed last year by the short
crops. The lumbermen are expecting an un-
usually large fall business on this account.
Business is a little off with the United States
steel ~nail-works. TIL market seems to have be-
come glutted for the time being. sc great has
been the increase in production the last few
monthA The dullness is thought TO be but
temporary, as iron cut nails are fast passing ont
of general use. Steel nails are taking their
place.
Mccoy 6 Udell expect to get their new build
ings mp on tho West Side by Sept. 20, and
they will then the manufacture Of
their patent single and double-tree irons on a
much more extensive scale than ever before.
Parties at a distance are ready TO take their en-
tire product for SONS time to come if they will
allow them to do 80.