The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-27
industrial Notes.

1nOustriai ROteS.
The Parry Manufacturing Company is
arranging to make its own bolts. 1t re-
quires 100000 bolts year to supply the
establishment.
Brown 81 Ketchsm are now shipping five
to eight carloads of iron structural work O
week To Washington, ID. c.. for a govern
ment building.
The Commercial Electric Company last
week shipped three dynamos &c Toledo for
electric.light plants In that city. and two
motors to st. Louis to furnish power.
The Indianapolis Chain and Stamping
Company has its force up to $50 persons,
forty of them women. 1t is now manufac-
turing enough chain to furnish 600 by cicles
day.
pieted it's new line OF pipe on Dillon and
on Reed streets. and this morning COM
mences laying another 24-lnch main pipe
across the city.
Merritt 81 Co. are still running their
wooden mill about one-h half its capacity,
and on the 1st of next month the Hoosier
mills will resume work, giving employ
ment to ninety people.
One of the newer in dustries which starts
out with much promise is barrel hoop
mandatory. Madison Il Marrow. proprie-
tors. They manufacture q hoop which is
to come into general use. 2sEA
The lumber dealers report business un-
usually brisk for March. The prospect for
an advance in the price of lumber is so
favorable that the larger contractors are
buying in advance of their actual needs.
The Citizens Street-railway Company
has large force of men at work replank-
ing and strengthening the bridge over
White river, on Kentucky avenue. which
has been closed to travel for several days.
The Globe Enclosing Company, new
enter prise. has taken rooms In the UnloD
Block. in which the dies" are manu-
featured. and have arrsn ged with the Sink
er q. Davis Company to do their heavy
work.
George Seibert Is erecting on the south.
east corner of State and Michigan streets q
business block. 1t ie to be built of brick,
resting on Q good stone foundation. and
will have three business rooms on the
ground floor, all of which are already
leased for term of years.
The Dugdale Can Company is working
full-handed and full time and turning out
sixty thousand cans per day. Mr.. Dugdae
says more of the proauct of the establish
responding time last year, and the business
of the year promises well.
Greer, Whitaker K Co. ore to make In
dianapolis their principal distributing
point for doors, sashes and blinds, and
have just completed. on East Michigan
street. a building 30 feet long by so WIDE
three stories high, TO tie utilized as the COM
pany's distributing house.
The National Starch Works Company
will to-day start mp it's plant in Des MONIES.
L.. q branch of the Indianapolis starch
works. The machinery for the plant W as
purchased here. mostly. Mr. Piel states
that the new plant will require 6. 600 BUSH
els of corn day to keep it running.
President Gent. of the cereaIine mills.
states that as soon as the weather becomes
suitable he will complete the plant at North
Indianapolis. Mills A and ID are being RIM
to their full capacity, requiring 6000 BUSH
els of corn day. Mills & and ID will re-
quire fully as large q quantity daily when
completed.
The Indiana Cotton Mill Com pany Is now
turning out thirty thousands yards of
cloth a week and has 7C0.C0O yards of its
product sold. The company is 20 put in q
seven hundred horse power engine, and
will then put IN additional machinery, in
creesing It's production TO fifty thousand
yards per week.
more cheerfuIly over the situation. Justus
Adams, of the sheridan brick works. says
that on the 1st of next month they will be-
GIN the manufacturing of seventy thousand
brick q day. and the less pretentious yards
are arranging to increase their manufacture
over that of last year.
Mr.. Coonse, of the firm of Comstock a.
Coonse. says they have been in business
here since 1871. and they have never expe-
rienced SO large q trade in pumps as In the
last few weeks. They are working moro
men than ever before and are shipping
their production by carloads 30 points in
Missouri, Iowa. Illinois. Michigan and Ohio
Crawford Fairbanks. one OF the larger
stockholders of the Standard wheel works,
was In the city last week. looking over
matteYa He says that only the general Of.