The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-18
COST OF SHIPPING STOCK ABROAD
FROM INDIANAPOLIS.
Outlook Among the Local Industries
Manufacture of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
of the seed Market.

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horse the cost would be nearly 800. A horse
requires more space than a steer. 1t costs
about s24 per head to deliver a steer in
Liverpool from Indianapolis. Steamer space
for cattle tied up is two feet by eight. It
costs s. a head to land sheep in the for
eign ports named above. Nine sheep and
ten lambs, it is stated, can be carried in
the same space a steer must have, the
space being so divided as to make a
double deck stanchion. But few of the
ocean steamship companies will take any
risks. Owners of the live stock place the
insurance where they can get the best
terms and rates. Some of the steamships
will carry one thousand head of cattle on
a passage.
An Encouraging Outlook.
The increased number of visitors to the
Nordyke & Marmon Company's works is in
dicative of something of a revival in their
line, although there is not that activity
usual at this season previous to the as
sembling of the anti-prosperity trust at
Washington two years ago. Within the
last week one of the representatives of the
Phoenix Mills. of Minneapolis, was here
to look after some Of the details incident
to the construction of the machinery for
their new mill, which the Nordyke Sc Mar
mon Company are now building and en-
larging to more advanced ideas. The
Phoenix people are clearing their building
of the present machinery prepatory to the
reception OF the new, several carloads of
Nordyke & Marmon works here. The full
complement will soon follow. The head mill
was also here last week. While here he
left an order for a number of the largest
size double roller mills built to be used
in further increasing the capacity of the
National mills, the largest winter wheat
mill in the world. The manager of the
recent visitor. This company also placed
their order with the Nordyke & Marmon
mil. This mill is to be located on the site
of ST. LOuiS'S first mill and the purchasers
are the desesndants Of the parties who built
days of st. Louis. These and a few other
orders recently closed probably insure the
continuous operation of the big establish
ment across the river with present force.
The Overall Industry.
There are now in this city six establish
ments which manufacture shirts, pants.
overalIs and like articles on an extensive
scale, two having been added recently which
manufacture a higher grade of goods. The
six Establishments turn out thousands of
garments daily. The six establishments
give employment to nearly thirteen hundred
people,, largely women, in the establish
ments themselves. and put out a good deal
of work to private families in the southern
part of the city. in these establishments
| seven hundred or more sewing machines
are daily in operation, in most cases run by
power. While a considerable per cent. of
the goods are sold in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio
a large Western and Southwestern trade,
and one of them has a large Eastern trade.
| ment of this character was in the city. and
up to three years ago but two of impor-
tance.
Indianapolis as ~ Seed Market.
Within the last five years indianapolis has.
come into much more Importance as a seed
market. 1t now has two concerns which
handle business on a large scale, and a
number of less important seed stores. Some
idea of the business these seed stores do
may be gathered from the fact that the
two Leading houses in the year 1881 handled
one hundred carloads Of clover seed, forty
carloads of timothy, four carloads Of blue
Igrass and ten carloads of other grass seeds,
twenty carloads carefully selected seed oats.
| fifteen carloads of carefully selected seed
corn, twenty carloads of miIlet and twelve
carloads of garden tools. One establishment
is hardly Sufficient room to handle its
| growing business. 4.
Up to the Old BASIS Again.
At the Atkins saw works they are again
working full time and nearly the good
times force, some four hundred men. The
past winter has been very favorable for
logging. and has set in motion many saw
Inills which have for some time been idle,
but the Improvement is the most notice.
able in the great demand for cross-cut saws.
Mr.. Potter, one of the firm. says that while
they are not crowded with orders, these
orders are coming in TO such an extent as
to keep the works busy to fill them. The
Introduction of the manufacture of hand
saws has considerably increased their bus
mess.
Industrial Notes.
The car works are receiving material at
the rate of thirty carloads a week, and
in a short time will be running at full
blast.
Brown. Ketcham & co. have been award
! cd the homework contract for the new build
ing the gas company is to erect, their bid
being $4,000.
remodeling its block on South Meridian
street and fitting the upper stories for
offices of a more desirable character.
John Pierson, contractor, with a large
building of the Rhodius Block, on Capitol
avenue, which was a short time ago de-
| stroyed by fire. In rebuilding two more
stories are to be added.
The Parry Manufacturing Compan is ne
| gotiating with the Haskell & Barker car
works, Michigan City, for one hundred large
cars to carry buggies in, the ear to be
forty-six feet in length, nine feet high in
the clear and eight feet eight inches wide.
Kruse & Dewenter have been awarded
the contract to furnish the heating and
yentilating apparatus for the new medical
college in this city and for the high-school
building in Pendleton; The furnaces for the
the largest ever put in at Indianapolis.
r. NJ. Rachman, proprietor of a large saw
1 mill on Madison avenue, has built up an ex-
| cellent reputation for turning out switch
tie sets, manufactured from oak or other
hard woods. A sWitch-tie set consists Of
| fifty-six pieces, six to eight, and in some
cases twelve, inches square, the shortest
tie being eight feet in length, the longest
| seventeen and a half. The ordinary switch
| tie SET has 3 -6fe feet IN If hoard measure