The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-12
HAD A PROSPEROUS SEASON
lce-Dealers Rounding Up the Biggest
Years Business They Have known.
Cheaper Rates Was What Did It-Manufact-
urers' Taxes-Premier's New Bloom
Mill-Notes from the Factories.

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Mill-Notes from the Factories.
The fiscal year with the ice-dealers closed
Dec. /, and one of the oldest dealers says
that one-thIrd more ice was sold the last
year than in any previous year in this
market to private families. He states that
it takes double the quantity of Ice to do
this market that il did even three years
ago. The last season was o longer one
than usual. and it was q warm summer. COM
.psratIvely speaking. Then the dealers put
prices at q reasonable figure, and many
done so this year. The increased use of
saltwater and ioe-cream, which 10 now
sold at nearly all drug stores. restaurants,
ETC., has greatly increased the demand for
opinion that double the quantity of ice was
used IN this one direction that there was
ever before in any one season., The houses
in this vicinity are now well cleared OF Ice:
and the greater portion of that now used
is from the artificial manufactures, which
are now turning ont about eighty tons q
day. Some of the larger firms are shipping
Ice in here from northern points.
Taxes rs a Cost Item.
Probably not one in fifty of the manu-
facturers in this country are aware of the
fact that in England factory property Is
free from taxation. The Boston Journal
of Commerce says. Those figuring upon
the comparative cost of manufacturing in
this country and In England should bear
In mind that there Is something more than
the bare item of labor TO be considered.
Factory property in England is free from
local taxation, which here Is an item of
considerable moment as a cost item in the
manufacture of goods. At q low calcutta
ton It amounts TO IA to ~ per cent. OF the
value OF the manufactured product, In this
country. taking as a standard the tax lists
OF the cotton factories at Manchester. n.
H., and Fall River and Lawrence, Mass.
In Pennsylvania however. machinery Is
exempt, put IL is our impression that this
Is the only State that makes an exception
of this kind. This item of taxes is moro
than the cost of ordinary repairs on build
ing and machinery. more than the interest
and five times more than the cost of Insur-
ance on real and personal property. taking
the accounts of thirty-one cotton-mllls in
Fall River as q criterion"
Industrial Notes.
The Jenney Motor Company is putting in
for q Toledo, O., establishment O S-h0rse-
power motor. q 5-horse-power motor and q
S60-light dynamo.
1t requires ~fifty-five thousand feet of
pipe varying in size from two to six inches
TO carry the cooling brine of the chill
rooms of the new Moore pa~cking-house.
The Parry Manufacturing Company. to-
day. will occupy its new buildings. giving
it 137. 900 more square feet of floor room.
The buildings are of the most substantial
kind.
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ing out 1880 yards of cotton cloth a day.
But q part of It's looms are unnin When
all are IN position the daily product will be
5000 yards.
A Observation-Disclosures light plant
was completed at the Indiana bicycle
works on Saturday, and if crowded with
orders the works can be run at night as
well as by day.
The Howard machine works. which o
short time ago commenced business on q
limited scale, are still charging the plant,
and will soon become quite an important
industry for Indianapolis.
The new na~tural-gas company is now
laying its mains among the manufactures
of the South Side and connecting them,
which will relieve the drain on the pipes
which furnish gas for the city generally.
The directors of the Indiana car foundry
works held o meeting last week n In
structed General Manager Fortiner to push
matters, and. as soon as practicable, to
have the works running to their fullest ca
pacity.
r. r.. Rouse is sinking q driven well six
inches in diameter and another two and
one-half inches in diameter to second
water for the new Commercial Building
and q six-inch well to second water for the
new Surgical Institute.
John X. Elder, president of the Clay
Single Company, last week received an
order from Raj Nandjan C. p. India, COM
ing from n cOnEraatOr namod " .aranQa-
pang Modlizar. He recently received q
large order from France
Kingan & Co. are daily receiving new
refrigerator cars from the Peninsular car
works. at Detroit, in which they are ship
ping butterine by the carload. az well as
provisions. Indianapolis is well ADVERTISE
by these refrigerator oars. as they are at
tractively painted and plainly lettered.
The Nelson Morris Dressed-beef Com
pan Is putting MP q second building on
Kentucky avenue, 20 by 40 feet, two stories
high, TO better handle Its increasing
business. The Swift Dressed-beef Com
pany will soon begin the erection of q
building near by the one above mentioned
Between March 1. 1897. and Dec. / there
were brought in here by the railroads $3.50
which were used IN foundations for asphalt
pavements. More stone, it Is stated, has
gone into this and other classes OF street
improvements and into buildings than In
buy tufcC ycoAo III tuC poots
The Cooperative laundry, the stock
holders of which are all women. is getting
well upon it's feet. In q few weeks it will
ave all its debts paid and begin declaring
dividends. Since the laundry started the
girls have drawn weekly from the treas
ury good wages. and the undertaking has
OF excellent future. apparently.
The Cerealine Company last week got
two OF the mills In operation by day, and
this morning will begin to run two
watches. day and night: using 5000 bushels
of corn q day. 1t will be several weeks
before the machinery is in position in
the other two mills. but when running
they will require 12,00O bushels of corn a
day.
The Indianapolis Chain and Stamping
Company, which now gives employment to
sixty men and women. is putting in a lar &c
number of new machines, n Will by the
middle of next month give employment 10
126 persons. It now has sixty machines in
operation, and, there Is hardly q bicy Gle
company IN this country which does not
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