The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-05
Industrial and Trade Notes

Chandler e Taylor last week made large ship
ments of their engines to Chicago, st Paul and
St Louis.
Indianapolis elevators now contain 179, COZ
fewer bushels of grain than at the correspond
ing period in 1887.
On Thursday last Murphy, Hibben & Co. paid
customs duties to the amount of 81, 127 81, the
larger portion of which was for an importation
of French satin.
c. C. Foster is pushing work on his new plan
ing-mill. sash and blind factory. and expects to
occupy the new buildings by the first OF next
month. IL not earlier.
The indianapolis wheel-works contemplate
considerably enlargiug their works as soon as
the ground on which Fosters undergrad and
planing-mill stand is cleared of.
The Quaker Brick Machine Company last
week shipped entire outfit. including an At
las engine, to Puget Sound, w. t.; another
to Stockton, aud two to Norfolk, Va.
The Parry Cart Company now give employ
ment to l05 men. and are preparing to still
further enlarge their works. and expect within
sixty days to be turning out 100 jobs day.
The Indianapolis gray-iron foundry, last
week, was awarded contracts to furnish cast
ings for several roads for the year 1887. Among
the number the Ohio. Indiana 81 Western
Albert Gall has been for some days making
extensive improvements to the interior of his
carpet-house. Among them is the putting in of
an elevator. the entire cost OF the improvements
reaching 81, 900.
The Eagle machine works have Iaencsd
the manufacture. extensive scale. % the
johnson press, for baling excelsior and cotton.
These works, on Saturday, shipped a saw-mill
and engine TO Mexico
The cold storage houses are again filing up
with poultry, shipments to Eastern markets
having ceased until better prices can be OBJ
tanned. The eggs have heen cleared from the
cold-storage houses within the past three weeks.
The United States Gne-stave Bucket Compa-
ny 10 becoming one or Indianapos's most i'm
portant industries. 1t furnishes buckets by the
thousands 20 the preserve packing companies,
and for@sise by the mince-meat manufacturers
The iouring-mills are still running only about
one-half their capacity. If they were to
their full capacity one month they would be
short of wheat, as there is now less wheat in
store in the mills and elevators than at any
time within the last four years.
Pearson & Wetzel, importers and jobbers in
china. glass and queensware, have got well set
tied in their new building, which is said to be
the best adapted to trade of this character to be
found in the West They occupy Ave stories,
each floor being 200 feet long by 81 wide.
The Indianapolis terra Gotta works are so
pressed with orders that they working night
were awarded contracts for terra Gotta for q
fve-story business block of R. S. Mckee. TO be
erected on the corner of Maryland and Meridian
streets.
Hetherington g. Berner have within the past
ten days, been awarded the contract erect the
iron fronts for four new buildings which are to
be built at They the Mansur Block.
the Mckee Block, the Stout Block, aud the lar ge
the corner of Pennsylvania and Georgia stree ts
Business at the Indianapolis eabnet-works is
at high tide. the company last week making
shipments the Minister of Interior San Do
mingo. and to the Panama Canal Company
They also received orders for ten carloads of
desks to be shipped to San Francisco, four cars
for Los Angeles, three cars for Kansas City and
one car per week for New York
knight e Jillson last Saturday shipped FIVE
carloads of natural-gas pine and supplies to
Chesterfield, Ind. whers wells to be put
down furnish natural gas to Richmond Ind.
This company has just erected. north of the
Union tracks large shed in which to store
natural-gas supplies and pipe. the Union Rail-
way Company will lay side-track to the she'd
The Oliver Chilled Plow Company have l0s
carloads of piows stored in their Indianapolis
distributing house. and daily shipping more
here from their manufactory. The shipments
from the Indianapolis distributing house are
now fully as large as the arrivals, and H. B.
Smith, general agent says this promises to De
the biggest years business in the history of the
works In fact, orders are now coming in as
fast rs they can be filed.