The Indianapolis journal., 1892-04-18
Industrial Notes.


Industrial Notes.
The cerealinc- works have increased their
brick contract to 2,0O0, 900 brick.
Parties are negotiating for ground at
Brightwo ood for lumber-y ard and plan ing
mill.
The Cleaveland Fence Company is making
improvements to Its plant, putting in anew
engine and boilers among other things.
Coffin. Fletcher * Co. have awarded the
contract for their new smOke-houses, and
have purchased 10000 brick for the walls.
During the week Chandler 81 Taylor
shipped engines and boilers 20 eleven diff
ferent States and large engine to Gaute-
mala. T.. A.
The Builders Exchange has made it's
rooms much more inviting by putting in
fifty high backed chairs and other furni-
ture to match.
The Baltimore Cable-road Company has
given an additional contract amounting to
some $50 600 to the indianapolis Frog and
Switching Company.
Dean Brothers are getting up a large
pump TO be run by electricity. to be used in
pumping water from the canal to the arti-
ticial fountain which is being constructed
at FairvIew Park.
The bids for the building of the new pork
house were opened Saturday. hut the
awarding Of the contracts was put OFT until
tomorrow. lt il said that the bids ranged
AiSucE tuhu INC c1tlmAtob.
When the new pork-house is in operation
the killing capacity of the pork houses here
VIII be ll.OcO hogs day. divided thus:
Kingan Il Co.. 5000: the new pork house,
1900; Coffin. Fletcher N Co.. 1000.
Several agents are preparing to plat land
In the vicinity of the ground on which the
new cercaline-works are to be erected. A
number of lots have already been sold on
the ground plated by George Stout.
X. X. Rouse. of this city. has secured the
contract to sink eight driven wells down
10 soft water In the city of Terre Haute.
Two will be sunk for the Terre Haute car
works. with a pipe eight inches In diam
eter.
1t is stated that Brightwood would Sc
cure two good manufactures could the
suburb furnish proper protection against
fires: One of the drawbacks Brig htwood
has had always to contend with has been a
lack of fire protection.
Ellis& Helfenberger will. this eek. CON-
mence moving from their present quarters,
which have become too limited, to their
new machine-shop and foundry, on South
Mississippi street. They expect to be
started up, with fifty men ct work, by
May ].
The Indianapolis terra-cotta-werks at
RrlghtwOod were on Saturday awarded the
contract 10 furnish the terra Gotta work
for new hotel To bo erected in Nashville.
Tenn, seven stories high. with n frontage
OF nearly three hundred feet. the terra
cotta-work on which will amount to nearly
$4,000.
The stone-workers have more contracts
and larger ones than in any former year In
the history OF Indianapolis. In the new
blocks and residences going up an un-
usually large per cent. of the work is of
etone, and most of it tine dressed work.
AT two of tho yards the firms are working
bver one hundred men eech.
Cleaning carpets by steam power is q
ind nafr har
two establishments of this character here
which have a capacity each to clean 1000
yards OF carpet day. and eight months of
the year they are kept busy. To do the
work requires quite commodious buildings
and really novel machinery.
The indianapolis Cabinet Company has
recently separated that department of
their works devoted 10 the manufacture
OF bullt-up veneers from It's regular desk
work and equipped a new factory especial
ly for this class of work, and has been
pushing this branch of the business ener-
getically. so much so that it is now 500, 600
feet behind its orders.
Seventy five per cent. of the chairs
tables. desks. etc, are manufactured from
oak, beech or maple woods. One chair
factory uses over 100000 feet OF these
woods annually. Ii is estmated that fully
100000 feet of these descriptions of wood
are used by the indianapolis manufac turers
each year. But little cherry and walnut
are now being used. as compared with
former years.
The lockwood Manufacturing Company
which builds principally saw-mills and
also manufactures the American paper
pulley. reports business as excellent From
all parts of the country they arc receiving
orders Tor the paper pulleys, and they
have recently shipped a number of saw
mills To the States uf Washington. Texas
and Mississippi. In the Southwest they
have large trade.
Haugh. ketcham * Co. have commenc ed
putting In the stone foundations for their
new shops. When completed they Will be
double the size of the ones burned, and the
company expects to employ $50 to 500 men.
ne work OF putting up the buildings has
been delayed somewh hat awaiting perfec-
tIon of the title to five acres of ground
purchased of the Peorin AZ Eastern Rail-
road Company adjoining their old grounds.
Indiana polls is credited with having the
bandsomest brick in it's buildings of any
city IN the country. This makes 10 all the
Eiore diiheult Tor foreign contractors TO hid
ON work here. One of the brick mann
factafrrs relates this incident IN connec tion
with the erection oi the Central layenue
church. foreign contractor bid on III,
work. expecting TO use brick of "A foreign
manufacture. but when in the walls the
trustees OF the church were not satisfied
and were obliged To pay the contraction