The Indianapolis journal., 1892-07-11
A SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRISE
Belt Read and Stockyards Company
and Its New Packing-House.
Its Original Capacity to be Enlarsed-GrOSth
of the Keyless Lfck intustry-News snd
Note; from the Factories.

The work which w. P. Ijams, president of
the Indianapolis Stockyards and Belt Road
Company, has done in bringing about the
gratifying results that have conc from
this enterprise is not appreciated. To him
in o large measure belongs the credit of
having the yards since they were estab-
lished the great success that they have be-
come. Go East, West. North or South and
one will hear the stocky ards of Indianap-
oils spoken of as being one of the best man.
aged and most prosperous industries In the
West Those who invested money In the
enterprise have been benefited financially
far bevond their expectations; in fact, 1t
has proven q regular gold mine. Nor has
this been omplished through avaricious-
ness of the management. as no ards In the
country furnish feed cheeper, none give
more comfortable quarters for resting cat
tlo and none give better facilities for un-
loading or loading stock from and to the
cars. No niggardly policy has ever been
followed by the management when more
sheds and ard room were necessary.
The most important enterprise the stock
the building of the new pork house. which
at first was expected to cost S15OC0 but
Will evidently cost 100000. as 1t has been
decided to erect another large building In
addition to those already described In the
Journal Work on this industry Is being
pushed, as IL is hoped 10 have 1t In full oper-
alton by the middle OF October. one of
the main buildings Is nearing com mpletion.
and the stone foundation for the second
one is ia and brick- laying will commence
this morning. In the month of June the
Belt road engines delivered mt the
new packing house 254 carloads OF
building material and the daily deliveries
are still heavy. The building of this new
modern packing house places the yards
on a much frmer foundation, If any was
needed, than before, and, as well. brings ln-
dianapolIs more into prominence as pack
ing center.
Gated nere, is one of the largest in the
country. and Coffin. Fletcher II Co. have.
during the last season, largely increased
their facilities as pack1ng.house. lhe
Indianapolis Abattoir Company and the
Gardner Abattoir Company are killing hun
dreds of cattle and thousands OF hogs
weekly. all of which has resulted from the
establishment of the stockyards and hand
ling them in O manner to make them popu.
lar with shippers.
An Industry with a Bright Outlook
The management of the Keyless.lock
company, which makes q speciality OF
equipping postoffices, is finding 1t quite diff
ficult to ill orders as promptly as desirable.
Last week the Postotfice Department. gave
the company q contract TO furnish seven
teen of the sub-stations at Philadelphia
and two large offices on Long island with
their entire equipment. The company is
also getting up model keyless-lock post
office for Meadow Bro DIX, Pa, the home of
Postmaster general Wanamaker. The COM
pauy Is making arrangements to transfer
it's works In Nebraska to Indianapolis, as
it is much more central point, and there
is less difficulty in getting the material
from which tho boxes are made. MS IS
the only mandatory OF this KIND In the
United States. and bids fair to become one
of ienapOlis's most i'm portant Industries.
Industrial Notes.
The Indianapolis Frog and Switch Cons
pany is still working day and night forces
for the third month this year. %
The Indianapolis breweries ship to cities
and towns outside of Indianapolis fifteen
to twenty carloads of beer daily. 81
The Howard machine works have built
on an addition TO their machine shops. ami
are putting IN more machinery and increas-
ing their force.
d. w. Williamson ~ Co. are putting in
new machinery and preparing to manu-
facture veneering on a large scale. dropping
the making Of nail-kegs, barrels, etc. =. sro
The Perry Manufacturing Company,
which shut down July to make repairs
and take an inventory, will resume opera
tIons this morning with $50 men on its pay
roll.
The American weel-works have reduced
their force to about $50 men, but after the
receivers sale it Is expected that the works
will fall into hands which will work 200 or
more men. -
With its new bnilding the Van Camp
Hardware Company finds it's room yet too
limited, and is figuring on increasing it's
floor room. OF which it now has 100000
square feet. -
The iron-works at Hauehville last week
placed an order with tho Jennoy Electric
motor Company for some 5000 worth of
electrical appliances to be used in running
the machinery OF the plant.
Dean Brothers. steam pump manufact-
urers, were last week awarded the con-
tract to furnish seven pumps for large
distillory which is to be erected IN western
Pennsylvania, o short distance from Pitts
burg
The Fairbanks Morse Company, dealers
in scales and other railway supplies. has
largely increased it's business facilities
here of late, and is extending Its trade to
roads outside of Indiana well at
home.
Hett terin Rton Il Berner are putting in
several thousand dollars worth of new ma
chlnery. and expect in ninety days from
now to have the best equipped shops for
manufacturing architectural iron-work in
the West -
The present owners of the dianapole
car-works are to have meeting on
Wednesday to consider the question of re-
suming operations Cars are now In good
demand and good prices for them can be
obtained.
Jacob Ehrisman. whose flouring-milI.
near Clifford avenue, was bnrned few
weeks ago. will this week let the contracts
for rebuilding the mill on a larger scale
than before. equipped with all modern
milling apparatus.
The American Express Company on Sat-
urday. leased the rooms now occupied by
Eastman. Schleicher a. Lee for term OF
years, aud will take possession on the latter
removing into the new quarters In the re-
modelled Browning Block.
In June there were delivered to Indian
apolis packing-houses 71,6S5 hogs. Since
March l. the beginning of the summer sea
SOD, Indianapolis packers have killed 2l0-
O0J hogs, 1000 more than In the CORE
spending four months of 1891.