The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-14
OLD HOME MACHINE-WORKS
How the SiDker-Davis Concern Has
Grown and PrOspered in this City.
Making Butterine-Banner Y ear for Building
Indus;rips-The New Cotton Mill
Packers Are Short of Hogs.

In 1851 there was started in this city. on
South Penney lvania street. little ma
chine-shop, employing two or three men.
This shop was operated by Sinker & Kell-
shaw From this small beginning the shop
changed hands later on and was owned by
Sinker & Yandes. and later SInker d
Davis Finally, in 1871, a company was in
corporated in the name of Sinker, Davis u
Co The plant had been enlarged from
time to time until in 1888 the present CON-
pany, known as the Sinker-Davis Com
peEy. bought the works. The plant now
covers all the ground between Georgia
street and the railroad. fronting on Penn
sylvanis and extending back $50 feet, with
an annex fronting on Delaware street
Since the beginning this plant has been
successful: every year there have been more
men employed and q larger amount OF
work done The last four years with the
Sinker- Davis Company have been unusual
ly successful. the plant having been run
every day. ana tnr2 eng the summer na Null ~
engines, boilers, saw mill machinery. snaft-
ing and pulleys; and shipments are made
to all parts of the United states. The pay
roll now shows about two hundred men at
n
have ever been before. In looking over
the order-b book the Journal represeD tative
found orders from the National Starch
Manufacturing Company to be shipped to
Des Noinee, Ia, for several carloads OF
shafting and pulleys; an order from the
eerealire mills for q large lot of shafting
and pulleys; an order from +. n. Mattson
* Co., Clsrksdale, Miss. for $4,000 saw.
boiler for VI. X. Fatout * Son. of this city;
\ sixty horsepower engine and boiler for
the Bedell Planing-mill Company. of this
city; three 125-horse-power boilers for the
Central iron and steel-works, Brazil; three
100 horse power boilers Tor the New-Deni-
son House; two 100-horse- power boilers for
che Indianapolis glue-works, besides nu-
merous orders for smaller engines and boil
ers. The present owners are all young
men, expert mechanics ana we'll up In the
business. j. II. Hooker is president, Z.
johnson vice-presldent. n. X. Bliss sec
rotary and treasurer. and A. j. Malone
superintendent, all of whom, with l.. Nj.
Harvey, constitute the board of directors.
Becoming an Important Industry.
To-day Kingan 81 Co. move into the
newly fitted mp butterine mandatory
building. The company's capacity In the
past has been 5000 pounds Of butterine
day; now 1t will be 10000 pounds day.
Some improved machinery has been intro
duced, and il is the most complete but
terine plant In the country. One of the
churns will churn $500 pounds at once.
The company will receive . carload of
milk in cans daily. Ii makes three brands,
which arc packed In twenty and sixty
pound tn bs and shipped TO any part of the
country. The company has established its
New England agency in Providence. X. T.,
and has appointed w. 8. Kirk. formerly of
Indianapolis it's general agent for New
England: Similar sales houses are to be es-
e -
and when in full operation the shipments
of butterine will reach fully carload
day.
The Banner Year.
The year 1892 has been the banner year
with the Indianapolis contractors and the
planning mills door. sash and blind fac
tories. The remarkably fine weather
through the fall months and the almost
entire absence of rain has been very favor
able TO building operations. and this has
kept mp good demand for building ma
terial of all descripti ons and buildings as
q rule. are much further along than they
would have been had the weather been as
stormy as the average seasons. Lumber
has been wanted in greater quantities than
usual, and this has kept the planlng-mills
buster. This has kept MP not only the de-
mand. but prices. az WELL TO fair pitch. Not
including the hard brick reed in street I'M
provements, over 10000. 900 more brick have
been used the last season than in the build
ing season of 1891 and 100 per cent. more
stone-w0rk has been done.
The New Cotton-Min.
The Indiana cotton warp-mill is rapidly
getting it's machinery in position to man.
ufacture cotton cloth. There are already in
position three hundred looms. and whom all
are In line there Will be 400 looms. Enough
looms are now running to turn out two
thousand yards of cloth day. The mill.
when in full operation. will employ $50 per-
sons and will turn out five Thousand yards
of cotton cloth day. The machinery
throughout is new and of the most i'm
proved type. and in the entire plant the
most modern appliances have been intro
duced. The buildingis lighted throughout
with very complete electric plant. run by
. Chandler ~ Taylor high-speed engine.
and natural gas is used under the boilers
and to heat the two large buildings
Gar-works start Up To-Day.
The Indiana Car and Foundry Company
to-day commences the building of cara The
first built will be two hundred Hicks
patent livestock cars. then one hundred
cars for the Illinois Central, which will be
so constructed as to carry passengers dur
ing the worlds fair into Chicago and then
be converted into refrigerator cars. They
will be OF very substantial build in every
respect. and so constructed that the only
change will be IN the sides of the cars
when converted into refrigerator cars.
Scarcity of Hogs.
Kiugan e. Co. will this morning COM
mence killing three thousand hogs day.
They would kill double that number were
the supply of hogs larger. ALI the houses
expect to find some trouble in securing a
good supply of hogs, and now are Drinking
them from distant States. By the first OF
next month the three packing-houses will
he operated TO their full capacity. and it
will require ten thousand hogs day to
supply them.
Bic Foreign Contract
The Jenney Electric-motor Company. of
this city. was notified on Saturday that 1t
had been awarded the contract for thirty
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