The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-28
Notes.

It ls stated by one of the veneering man.
ufacturers that Indianapolis manufacturers
will this year turn out twenty million feet
of veneerlng. .or
G.. H. Shower on Saturday shipped two of
the heavy log wagons of the same style of
those recently shipped to South America,
to Nicaragua. b
The first three weeks of November IS. 400
fewer hogs had been killed by the Indian
apolis packing.hOuses than In the CORE
spending period 1891. ~
The Indianapolis Natural-gas Company
has reached the woolen-mills, the paper.
mills and Kingan IL Co. with it's new ten
inch main direct from the wells.
The building on South Illinois street
recently occupied by the New York hum
dry has been remodeled and Is now occu-
pied by the Ratti Printing Company.
Wright q Wright have made a success of
their power-house on South Tennessee
street. In their building are eleven indus
tries, each employing from eight TO thirty
men.
The Interior Hardwood Company, Or
ganiZed IA few months ago, Is getting down
to business, employing about fifty men.
No trouble is experienced In disposing OF
it's product
The Jenney Electric Motor Company has
now sixty-tive men at work ana finds IL
quite difficult to keep up with It's orders.
The works shipped a large plant last week
TO ~Lyncbburg, Va.
The four confectionery manufactures in
this city are now converting 40 to $50 bar
reis of sugar a week into candies. Indian
apolis manufacturers now make all kinds
OF candies known to the trade.
The Standard Bicy Gle Company last week
contracted to furnish a Chicago house
with one thousand of the high-grade ma
chimes they manufactures. This is nearly
one-third OF the annual production of the
establishment
The headquarters of the Eclipse Bicycle
Company are still In this city. Secretary
and Treasurer Whittier has leased rooms
for Offices In the Commercial Club Build
ing. which he will occupy as soon AS the
building is ready for occupancy.
Indianapolis eielators on Saturday rom
tanned 5O5, g21 bushels of wheat. against
81, 104 at the corresponding date 1881; 81. 992
bushels of corn, against 200 last year; 49,
ISL bushels Of oats. against 195. $50 bushels
last year. and IL. l53 bushels OF rye. against
1900 bushels last year.
The National Starch Manufacturing Com
pany hast week commenced another I'm.
prOvement which will cost several thou
plant this year will reach $40. Coz. and next
year fully as large q sum Will be expended
In onlarging the works
Now that the foliage is off the trees the
Importance of the new cerealine plant can
be seen. Four large buildings loom mp
y VI tbO ~ Wv VI
Few houses. where eight months ago il was
q pasture for q dairyman, and the plant Is
by no means complete yet.
The indianapolis cabinet-works are ne
gotiating for ole of the most extensive
electric plants In the West. The plant will
inclIde sixty motors. TO run different ma
chimes. and an electric-light plant which
will furnish four hundred incandescent
lights and twenty arc lights.
c. Hedrick, formerly employed as FORE
man at HeJherington 81 BerDer's. has es-
tablished a machlne-shop In "a portion of
the former Capital City planing-mill build
ing. 32y Massachusetts avenue. He will
give his attention largely to special work
in the way OF newly devised machines.
The general manage of the Southern
Pacific road has opened negotiations with
the National Electric Headlight Company,
of this city, for the equipping of the COM
pany's locomotives with their light. The
proposition IS to furnish several nundred
electric headlights. Since moving into its
new quarters the company has largely in
creased It's productive ca pacity.
The Indianapolis Elbow Com pany, which
began business here a few years ago on a
limited scaie. ~ now quite a large industry,
m pioying thirty-fiye men. The establish
ment n>es in elbows and pipe five tons of
sbeet-iron q day. most oil which comes
from the Anderson sheet-iron mandatory.
| IL turns out about two hundred dozen ell