The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-21
Industri.l and Trade Notes.

on the charge of selling liquor on Sunday.
Industrial and Trade Notes.
M. f. Ingalls, has ordered a new elevator to
be placed in the ingalls, Block. 1t will be run
by water power.
Parties are negotiating for the old Emley
railway-supply works who purpose to establish
q mandatory to build gas and electric-light
plant engines
II is very quiet at the elevators. Receipts Of
grain are very light, and neither of three i'm
| portsnt elevators Is running more than one
fourth of the time.
The Eagle Machine Company last week
shipped q large saw-mill and seventy-ive horse
power engine to Canada 1t also shipped q saw
mill to New Mexico.
Atkins g Co. have recently shipped several
large saws to Pacific coast points, and their
orders from joboers all over the country are
the largest they have ever had.
Dean Brothers received orders for steam
pumps, last week, from ten different States.
They have Just placed one of their duplex pumps
in the Bates House to furnish power for an ele-
| vator.
Present indications are that the fourine-mills
be obliged to shut down. as the price OF -four Is
relatively lower than wheat. But aside from
this there is not enough wheat coming in to keep
them running.
The last few days the new clip of wool has
been coming in quite freely. and a large per
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highest quotation, 80 cents per pound for tub
washed. IL clean.
J. M. Judah 10 removing an old building on
Delaware street. just south of Washington
street. preparatory to erecting o threc-story
brick block. which is to be occupied by L.
Adams, the commission merchant.
II is expected that building material will, by
the LIST of June. drop to figures which will large
" increase building operations. On that date
work will be resumed on the several buildings
of the Woodburn-Sarven Wheel Company.
| Extensive improvements are in progress at
Grown Hill Cemetery. suDerintendent Chislett
has sixty or more men at work laying out new
grounds and grading snd improving the drive.
ways. Some fine monuments are to be erected
this season.
The Udell Woodsn-ware Company, Satur-
day, received an order from South America for
proprietor. says the company is behind its orders
nearly three months and is working full-handed
and over lime.
Three Of the brick manufacturers will have
new brick on the market this week. Building
has been delayed considerably for the want OF
brick. Prices start in a little stiff, being from
Sc. so to 50 per thousand, but after the LIST Of
June II is expected they win drop to $3.50 for
run Of kiln.
The mauufacturs Of picket wire fence is be-
coming quite an industry. Last year Incianap-
oils manufacturers sold q, 900 rods. and this
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fence is made from waste lumber, and can be
sold with a fair profit by the manufactures at
go cents q rod.
Chandler & Taylor last week shipped . saw
mill and engine to the Indian Territory. They
shipped two Of their self-contained engines to
Wisconsin during the weak. two 70 Missouri,
one to Kentucky, one to Pennsylvania and one
to Illinois. The business outlook with them
was never more promising.
The Indianapolis Mallable Iron Company,
which gives employment TO several hundred
men and boys, is pressed with orders. and, not
withstandine the Improvement made in the
works In the way OF extending buildings the
last three years. the company this year con.
templates putting up additional buildings.
Shipments Of furniturs-such as desks.
lounges and chairs-to the Pacific coast have
fallen off largely Of late, owing to the excessive
the manufacturers of this State to induce trans
continental lines to offer more favorable rates,
an California Is one OF Indiana's best markets.
The indianapolis Cabinet Company last weet
received an order for sixty desks from the Wal
Department. They are to be used in the sigma
Service Bureau. The company, last week. made
shipments to London, England. and severa
other foreign points. Domestic trade is also
good, shipments having been made recently Il
New Orleans. Butte City. NJ t., Denver. Col.
Charleston, S. O., and San Francisco.
The Indianapolis rolline-mill sold the last o
it's rails to the c., Fl. & d. road last week. and
will manufacture no more unless the condition.
are moro favorable. A meeting will probably
be held this week, when General Manages
Morgan says some decision will be reached az u
the future of the mill. he thinks it highly
probable that IL will be converted into a mill 4
manufacture heavy structural iron-work.
The Terra Gotta Company has many orders
Last week it shipped q large quantity of il
product to Memphis. Tenn, TO be used on
large block t.. J. Graham 10 building in tha
city. It also made . shipment to Nashville
Tenn, the terra Gotta to be used on . fine resi-
dence ex-Governor Brown is erecting in ths
city. This week tho company make q ship
ment to Minneapolis to the parties who are put
ting up q fine building for the Water work.
Company of that city.
Carriage manufacturers report their sales thi
spring to have been quite satisfactory. The!
say that lndianapolitans are each year showing
a disposition TO ride in q better class of We
hicle, aud this city can now boast OF having .
fine turn outs as any city 10 the Union. Horse
men say a large per cont. of the horses nov
driven on the streets are good blooded stock
aud cost all the way from 500 to 1850. On tn
wholesa 10 streets some OF the best draft stock
costing 40 high a. $500 per pair. is found haul
ing drays and heavy wagons
Personal Mention.
B. F. Hamilton and wife, of Keokuk. Ia, VIII
have been visiting g. B. Thompson for tw