The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-10
Industrial Notes.

The Commercial Electric Light Company
IS quite BUSY and has recently received a
number of good orders.
The wooden mills of Merritt & Son, which
have been practically shut down for some
weeks, start up to-day with better business
prospects than for some time past.
The Indianapolis snath and cradle works
are having quite a good run of business.
Their trade is largely in the South and
far West, where reapers and mowers have
not yet come into general use, so new are
the grounds,
The ]. B. Adams Bridge Company has
just erected near White river, on Kentucky
evenue, q new building 100 feet in length by
80 in width, and will go into the manu-
fucture of bridges, ~treStleS, ETC., more ex-
tensiVely than heretofore.
The Jenney Motor Company is now filing
some of its contracts by doing the work at
the Atlas engine works, and there is some
ganized and the patents of the Jenney
Motor Company utilized.
The Builders Exchange has mace a new
departure which promises good results. 1t
has. appointed a committee which is to see
fers to manufacturers to locate here and
for business mem generally is better adj
v~ertised by items through the press.
The C. F. Hunt Bridge Company reports
more contracts for bridges, ~trestles, etc,
now on its books than at any former period
in some years. The heavy rains and
floods of the last three months carried out
many small bridges and some important
ones, as well, and this has much to do with
the increase in orders with this company.
The Model WOODEN Company, successor
of c.. e. G~eisend6rff q Co., has its new
buildings completed and is now putting in
machinery, and when this is in position will
considerably increase its number Of en-
ployes, as with the completion Of the inn
provements and the putting in of new ma
chinery the capacity has been considerably
increased.
J. C. Mendenhall, president Of the Hoosier
Sweat Collar Company, on Saturday re-
turned from an extended Northwestern trip
and he says on all sides was an evidence of
improving business: He returns with orders
which will keep their establishment busy
for two months to come. The business OF
the company, he says, IS nov considerably
in excess of that of May, 1896.
The Indianapolis Engine Company re-
ports an excellent business in it's crude oil
engines. 1t is receiving a great many
orders from the oil fields for engines to
pump wells and also has a great many
calls for these engines for portable and
traction engines. 1t has just received an
order for one of the crude OIL pumping en-
gines for tank service at Charlotte, N. Y,
with the assurance that II 1t does the serV-
ice which is guaranteed they will be
adopted on the Vanderbilt railway. system;
The company is also receiving inquiries and
orders for engines for tank pumping serv-
ice from Western roads. TIL factory is
running night and day and stlll cannot
keep up with orders.
The lockwood Manufacturing Company
is receiving very satisfactory orders for
paper pulleyS, frictionS and saw mills, and
is very much pleased with trade prospects.
II has just lhtlSl Ill OidC4 min OCUtA
America. for pulIeys to be used in the
electric light station in Iquique, and has
also shipped a number OF pulleys 70 OSAKA,
Japan. It has just closed a contract for the
pulleys to be used in the electric light plant
of the United States navy yard at San
Francisco, Cal This week the company
will have entered and filed orders for saw
mills received from points in Ohio, North
Carolina, Missouri and Indiana. Colectlons
are satisfactory, many customers discount
ing their bills. w. E.. lockwood is of the
opinion that the business men of the coun-
try have concluded not to wait for much
needed tariff and monetary legislation, but
are pushing onward, having faith that Con-
gress will, before long, pass bills that Will
nIace the country in the prosperous condi.
ton we enjoyed in 1892.