The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-26
AWAITING THE ELECTION
SOME IMPROVEMENTS CONTEM-
PLATED BY MANUFACTURERS.
Proposed to Enlarge Cotton Mills
Pennsylvania Company's New
Freight Depot.

Love Bros, proprietors of the Indiana
cotton mills have plans prepared for still
further charging their plant, which is now
one of the largest and most modern
equipped cotton mills in the West They
only await the result of the election to
make contracts for the additional buildings.
The new horse barns and mule pens at
the stock yards completed, and the
prospects are that Indianapolis will soon
become the largest horse and mule mar
ket in the West Chicago excepted. Mr..
Blair, of the firm of Blair & Baker, says
that within the next few weeks at the
two barns and mule pens twelve hundred
OF more horses will be sold at the Tuesday
and Wednesday auction-sale days.
The indianapolis Stock-yards Company
has the last summer done a good deal of
work in improving the platforms at the
unloading and loading pens. These i'm
provements enable the company to han
die the stock much more expeditiously and
easily than under the old arrangements.
The yards at Indianapolis are considered
by shippers the best in accommodations for
feeding, watering and caring for stock in
the country Always being free from mud
and easy to transfer stock. prices at this
market are almost invariably better than
at any other Western market So many
buyers are there that an overstocked mar
ket is an exception
John Roberts, owner of the Plaza House.
on Monument place, is remodeling the
building in its interior, and if business
brightens up after the election, will add two
more stories to the building and equip it
with all modern improvements.
Pearson e Wetzel crockery and glassware
dealers, who were burned out ten days ago,
have moved into the on South Me-
ridian street recently occupied by Henly,
at r. n he hltiId h1rrpn Cd &c FOL .a
Immediately rebuilt and then occupied by
Pearson & Wetzel again.
PARROT & Taggart, who now have the
largest bakery establishment in the State,
contemplate should times improve, nearly
doubling the capacity of their present
plant. where 100 people are now employed.
Work on the new bridge on Harding
street over White river has commenced.
H. c. Adams, who furnishes the stone for
the abutments, of which it will require at
least 175 cars, has made arrangements with
Superintendent Zion, of the Belt road to
use the tracks leading to the stock yards.
which is the nearest approach by railroad
to the place where the improvement is to
be- made.
The Indianapolis hominy mills have shut
down for short time to make an addition
to their plant, increasing its capacity about
one-third.
The Sinker- Davis Company has its new
foundry building up and other improve
ments it is making to the old Eagle ma
chine-works plant well advanced. If mat
ters move along as expected. by Dec the
company will be well established in its new
plant.
An official of the Pennsylvania Company
says should the election go as 1T is eX-
pected by the Republicans, the company
will commence moving the buildings on the
former Sinker-Davis property this fall pre-
paratory to erecting the new city freight
depot next spring ana summer.
The Standard wheel works of West In
dianapolis began operating again last Tues
day, and now have about one hundred men
employed. The firm intends to improve it's
plant with a new brick boiler room and
coal shed.
The Nordyke Marmon Company is i'm
proving it's plant with u metallic roof