The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-25
Industrial and Trade Notes.

The Parry Cart Company last week
shi pped a carload of carts to st. Pierre,
Martinique.
One local firm of confec.ioners is turning
out $4,000 pounds of candies a week to meet
the holiday trade.
: Their orders are so large that both the
woo,en-mills are still working four nights
in the week until 10 o'clock.
The Indianapolis elevators on Saturday
contained a total of 557. 1S9 bushels of grain.
against 493, 900 bushels for the correspond
ing date of 1885.
At the Indianapolis stove-foundry 125
doing a so per cent. better business than at
this time last year.
The Glazier elevator. on the corner of the
Union tracks and Pennsylvania street, Is
being torn down. The machinery is to be
taken to Ande rson.
The stock of brick here is the lightest for
tage of the scarcity and raised the price OF
common brick to 81 a tn ousand.
The Nordyke d Marmon Company is pre-
pairing for extensive improvements TO Its
works, the most important of which is the
erection of q building 800 feet long by 70
feet wide.
The Dugdale can mandatory, in the year
ending Nov. /, turned out 100000 cans
This week it will begin on a contract to
furnish the Van Camp Canning Company
with 100000 cans for next years use.
The Louisville. New Albany & Chicago
road has, for six weeks past. been deliver
ing thirty to t~hirty-tve carloads of flax
seed a week to the Evans Linseed-oil Com
pany. The seed is shipped from the North
west.
Meyers s. Co.. manufacturers of shirts
and Overalls, have leased the large four
story block on Fort Wayne avenue, owned
by Buschman 81 Co., and will occupy it
after Jan. l. They will give employment
to 800 or more persons.
Mr.. Shaw has, near Lawrence, a large
farm. and q large acreage of it he has
fenced Oft. On it he has more than seven
thousand geese fattening for the Eastern
markets. Most of the geese WHICH poultry
dealers receive are shipped to tbs farm to
be fattened.
The indianapolis Wr~ecking-frog and Rail-
way-supply Company. on Saturday last,
shipped fifty frogs to the Denver. Rio
frog the company. manufactures are now
largely in excess of those at any time since
the invention was perfected.
Dean Brothers are adding to their capa-
city by putting in six new irOn-working ma
chimes. Among the recent shipments is a
duplex pump, weighing five tons. to the
North Alabama Furnace Company, at Gads-
den. Ala. and one of the same size to the
glucose-works at Davenport, La.
In addition to it's extensive car building.
the indianapolis Car and Manufacturing
Company is manufacturing car wheels or
a large scale. it turning out from 40 to 160
more wheels daily. The company has re-
Gently secured several large orders for
wheels from the Ohio 81 Mississippi, the
Cincinnati. Hamilton Il Dayton and the
Lake Shore roads.
The Sinker-Davis Machine Company last
Saturday, shipped four carloads of machin-
cry to the Sanitary and Fertilizing Com
pany. of Denver, Col. In this establish
ment are employed 165 men. sixty-One more
than were at work there this time last year.
One of the company states that it has to
keep the works busy on full time and full
handed for months to come.
II. b. Smith. general agent of the Oliver
Chilled Plow Company for this State, and
portions of Ohio and Illinois, states that
the sales of the company the last year were
Is per cent. in excess of the preceding year,
and that the outlook is for q larger bust
ness during the coming year. The distrib-
uting-house at this point, preparatory for
next years business, will soon be filled
with machinery.
Armstrong Bros. last week shipped two
boilers of 0ne-hundred horse power each to
be used in the new Orphans Home that is
in course of erection at Toledo, o.. This
week they Will ship two boilers of like
power to Lafayette to be used in the water
works in that city. They are employing
double the number of men they did q year
ago, and have an excellent outlook for a
good winter business.