The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-13
Industrial and Trade Notes.

The Atlas engine works will in few DAYS
commence working thirteen hours day, which
they did for ten months last year.
Indianapolis elevators on Saturday contained
5S3 OF bushels OF grain, against 546 40 bushels
at the corresponding date in 1887.
w. FL. Coleman, manufacturer Of barrel stuff,
in the year 1887 converted 10. 700 cords of rough
lumber into heading. shipping it to all parts of
the country.
The furniture manufacturers now running
rather light getting out new designs of furni-
ture for this year. About March / they will
start up full time and full handed.
Retail dry goods men state that their business
Ia the month of January was the lightest of any
January in many years, but with the coming in
of February an improvement is shown.
Sinker, Davis & Co. crowded with orders
for boiler work They are now building i've i'm
mense boilers for the Marion Pulp Company.
Each boiler 10 seventy-two inches in diameter
and twenty feet long
Atkins 81 Co. have just issued book of 1928
pages, illustrating all the styles of saws they
manufacture and all tools saw-Inill men need
and giving much valuable Information regarding
measuring lumber.
The Indianapolis steel-rail mill has Just com.
pleted contract for furnishing ten miles of
rails for one of the Southern roads, and oday
begins rolling seven and half miles of steel rail
for the Cincinnati, Hamilton g. INDIANAPOLIS
road.
The Indianapolis cabinet works last week re-
ceived an order from Honduras. The desks
must be placed in boxes and Theoretically sealed
as bney Will ueed De packed ON mules some
three hundred miles and exposed to damp
weather.
The two powerful engines which to furn-
tsh power tor the running of the Jenny electric
arrived on Saturday from the Buckeye machine
works Ohio These engines are che hundred
and fifty horse power each.
Stilz, Joiner g. Co. have been awarded the
building to be occupied by George w Stout. on
South Meridian street, Wholesale grocery;
also the contract for large store building on Main
street. Louisville, KY, Messrs. Mcdonald Bros,
architects.
Packers here are practically shut down,
Kingan g. Co last week billing bat 1000 hogs,
the smallest number slaughtered in any week
of a winter month for many years. Chicago
packers have. since the 1st of January, slaugh-
tered 81. 1000 fewer hogs than in the correspond
ing period last year.
E. G. Crawford who for some years has been
master mechanic OF the Indianapolis mallsable
iron-works. has taken an interest in the Indian
apolis gray-iron foundry, and will be in charge
OF one OF the principal departments. This COM
pany is only waiting for milder weather to begsr
the enlargement of their works.
Every manufacturer who visits the city to
look after the advantages it offers for manu-
featuring interests speaks of the facilities which
the Belt road offers, giving manufacturers a
nection with fifteen roads going ont of Indian
apolis. and they are impressed with the favor
able rates manufacturers here get over Indian
apolis roads
Inc lndlanapoils stove Company which one
year ago at this time idle for one month,
will not shut down at all this winter, crowded
are they with orders. The manager says 1883
promises to be the best year the works have
ever experienced. orders they now have on hand
being 80 per cent. larger than in the middle OF
February of 1887
The Acme and the Evans & Richardson -four
ing mills which have productive capacty of
900 barrels a week, are both shut down, the
owners assigning as a reason that the rate
of the Northwest enables North western miliers
to flood the Eastern market with their pro-
duc:ion and underse1l them. and they would
rather lie idle than sS.ad good dollar after
pocr or uncertain one
Coburn e. Jones established their present
yards twenty-four years ago last Saturday. at
that time the only competitor they had was Nc
Cord % Wheatley, who then owned the only
paning-mll except that of Emerson g Co.
Eighteen years ago Coburn e. Jones put in oper-
alton their planning mill. making three. Now
there are ten lumber yards running planning
mills in the city
Haugh. Ketcham & Co. on Saturday completed
placing in position the immense iron Orders
which span Pogue's run between Meridan and
Company will lay tracks. An expert engineer
who was In the city on Friday last. and who has
examined much work of this character says that
IL is the most substantial and complete job of
kind he ever saw.
The past season has been rather poor one for
the manufacturers OF jellies, preserves and
mince meat Since the season set in, which WAS
Sept ], 1887. but 2.500.0 900 pounds OK ieies.
preserves and mince- meat have teen put up,
against 4, 1000. 600 pounds during the correspond
ing period In 1856 and 1887. The scarcity OF the