The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-27
industrial Notes.

Manufacturers of corn products are much
troubled to get corn to keep their mills
running, so light are the receipts.
TIE United States encaustic tile-works
IL so pressed with orders that it has a large
night as well as day force employed.
Joseph Flack was on Saturday given the
contract to furnish 650, 600 brick for the
new theater, on North Delaware street.
The Lilly Varnish Company reports busi-
ness as unusually brisk with 1t. 1t now has
a large trade in the Southwest and In Mex
leo.
The Van Camp Canning Company has its
second new building under roof. but Will
not be ready to go into operation on q large
scale before tomatoes begin to come IN.
The flouring-miIls are troubled some TO
get wheat to keep them running. but are
still turning out more flour than in Juno,
1891, and making some money on the pro-
ductiOn.
The indianapolis Frog and Switching
Company Is so crowded with work that last
week it actually declined to contract for
more work. Thu works ore running night
and day.
Business Nth the woolen-mills is I'M
proving. FaAl orders are beginning already
TO come In and the last six months OF loJ2
bid fair to be d very prosperous season for
this industry.
The Homo brewery will to-day make its
fret delivery OF beer of it's manufacture. A
nv VI IN bOVOA
to give the brewery o boom by making
large purchases.
The Indianapolis Snath and Cradle Man.
utactory Company reports business as hay
ing improved the past few weeks. Most OF
Its trade Is in tue southern States, where
the times are getting better.
The manufacturers of campaign goods
are already receiving inquiries as TO prices
and new fangles in the trade. which is
looked upon by the manufac turers as be-
ins on indication of o brisk trade in this
class of goods.
A mechanic at the Dugdale tin can
mandatory has gotten up 3 device by
whioh sixty tin cans can be made In o
inmate. 1t promises to revoiutionize the
manufacture of tin cans ms TO price. and
still mako OH equally good can.
The ice men report June as having been
rhe busiest month ever known with them.
1t takes, this hot weather, a6out eighty to
one hundred tons of ice a day 20 supply the
private customers. All are running more
wagons than In any former year.
Negotiations are pending looking to get
ting rates which will admit Of shipping
brick from brick-yards within q few miles
of indianapolis TO Chicago, where there is
now o great scarcity. Then the superior
| quality of the brick mGkes the Indiana
BRICK preferable.
1t is stated that before the close of the
present week there will be twenty kilns of
brick ready for the Indianapolis market
within a short distance of the city, which
Will prevent any more anxiety as to there
being brick enough at for the
numerous buildings now going w.
Dir. DugdaIe. president of the Dugdale
Canning Company, states that he has sent
his last order TO Wales for tin, as he has
facturers hereafter. He will take the first
production of the Elwood tin works tor
several months to make up his stock.
The managers or both of the harness,
manufactures report trade excellent. In
dianapolIs has become quite prominent AS
O harness manufacturing point. There are
two large establishments employing about
two hundred men and turning out 200 to $50
sets of harness q week, ranging in prlces
from IS TO $50.
The Indiana Coffee Company will this
week close the deal for tho piece of ground
on which TO erect It's new plant, which will
have double the capacity of Its present
one in che rear of the Schnull Block. In
fact, it is proposed to erect the most COM
plete plant in the West, indianapolis be-
ing q great distributing point for ~cotfees.
President Gent, of the new cerealine-
works says that when the plant is conf
pleted 10 will require II ZOO bushels of corn
= day TO keep them In operation, which
means that the Indianapolis establishments
which make corn products will require
fully $4,000 bushels of corn n day, as the
starch-works will use 5000 bushels, and the
Bates ~hominy-mill. the new maize mill and
the I6rrls Mill viii require AT ie6st f,VVU
bushels a day.
The three establishments located here
which manufacture "neglige" shirts, pants
and ~Overalls have had the busiest season
they have ever experienced. The demand
for "neglige" shirts has never before been
equnled. The three largest establishments
turn out 5000 to 1900 garments n day. and
there is hardly a point In indiana or any of
the Central States their goods are not
shipped TO. and in the Western and North
western States all have "a big trade.
ChandlorG Taylor Company last week sold
the Moore Packing Company. at the stock
yards. six boilers. each rs borse-power.
for their new packing house; tue Union
cooperative laundry a fifty horace
power boiler and thirty-horse-power en-
CINE for their new Nireinia-avenuo laun-
dry; George b. Hall. Belt road. city, thir-
ty-horse-power engine and boiler TO run
his new double-tree factory; Knights
town Conserve Company, Knightstown,
Ind, engine and boiler for it's new cam
~ning-wOrks. Mr.. NJ. +. Connect, ormerIy
with Van Camp Packing Company. city, is
superintendent OF the latter factory.
The KnickerbOcker Gas Meter Company
has leased the new Dell building. corner of
Pennsylvania and Georgia streets. occupy
ing the three stories, each room being one
hundred feet In myth by thirty in width.
The company or saturday commenced
placing the machinery IN position. This
! industry Is but a fair sample of the growth
OF industries in this city. The Knicker-
booker is the device of an
indianapolis mechanic. Men with some
money twelve months ago saw it was u
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