The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-20
OIL DRILLING
ACTIVITY Leads
STATE SURVEY
Leases Cover 5000 to
5000 Acres in Mar
shall County.
PLY MOUTH PLANTS BUSY
Coal Mine Near Terre Haute
ReopenS With Force
of $50.
BY CHARLES G. STONE
State Editor, The Times

| OH drilling ACTIVITY IN MarSnall
! County and the excellent business
outlook in Plymouth, the county
seat, are features of business and
industrial survey Of Indiana for the
week ended today.
Between 5000 and 5000 acres Of
land have been leased in the county
by the Arco Oil and Gas Company,
Cleveland, Ohio, and machinery is
being moved to near Knox to start
drilling. West of Gentryville, Spen-
Ger County, in southern Indiana, a
well of fifty to seventy-f1ve barrel
capacity has been brought in.
A survey in Plymouth shows pros
poets for the best year in the his
tory of the Edgerton Manufactur-
ing Companl, Plymouth Body Works
being operated at full capacity,
overtime work by the Plymouth
Metal Working Company, with ex-
ce1lent business reported by the Ar
COS Foundry, MacGregor-Darling
Nickelplating Works, Clizbe Bros,
Plymouth Canning Company, Lee
Trailer Company, Plymouth Manu-
featuring Company, Swivel Joint
and Shaft Company, Plymouth Bat
terry Company and Schlosser
Brothers creamery.
Plant Proposes Expansion
The Plymouth Chamber of Com
MERGE has undertaken sale of $780,
600 of Plymouth Body Company
preferred stock to enable it to ex-
pand factory space and employ
more men.
In the coal mining industry there
has been resumption of operations
by the Wabash mine, near Terre
Haute, owned by the Coal Bluff
Mining Company and employing
$50 men. Preparations are being
made to open the Sugar Valley mine
OF the S. and E. Coal Company,
also near Terre Haute, which en-
ploys 100 when running at capacity.
Conditions elsewhere in the State
are as follows:
An industrial tract near Gary was
sold Thursday to the Inland Steel
Company for $543,000 by Princeton
and Harvard universities and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy, the land having been left to
the institutions by the late Henry G.
Prick, steel magnate. The area of
the tract is 1913 acres, and adjoins
the 100000 Indiana Harbor plant
of the youngstown Sheet and Tube
Company.
BLOOMINGTON - Representa-
tives of Showers Bros. Furniture
Company and the Nurre Company
mirror manufacturer, leading indus
tries here, have returned from the
American Furniture Mart held at
Chicago, with predictions the two
companies will transact a large
volume of business. Nurre Company
sales during the mart passed all rec
ordS for the last sixteen years. The
-Hoadley quarry is being rur
on a twenty-four a day basis, with
flood lights for night operation.
BEDFORD-This city, best known
as the seat of the Indiana building
stone industry, also produces thirty
other manufactured articles, it was
revealed by the Chamber of Com
MERGE during MADE in Bedford
Week"
GREENSBURG-Thirty-t two ma
chimes will be added to equipment Of
the Cyclone Fence Company and the
work force increased, Supt. j. w
Bruce announces.
NIARION-Night shifts are work
ing at the plants Of the Marion Ma
chine, Foundry and Supply Com
pany, and the Marion Insulated
Wire Company.
PERU-Forty-two of the $50 men
made idle when the force of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad shops
were reduced in the spring have
been recalled.
ANDERSON-A record number OF
employees, $3.50 are now on pay rolls
VI O1AO 0CANO-4NCAAAJ PAelA1Vo.
Industries to lie Enlarged
ALEXANDRIA - Aladdin indus
tries is preparing to put into effect
an expansion program which in
cludes erection of several steel anc
concrete buildings.
SUMMITVILLE - Four carloads
of machinery have arrived for in
stallation in the Kraft cheese plant
LA PORTE-The Bastian Morley
Company, hot-water bottle man
ufacturers, announce plans for erect
ing plant addition to cost 100000
SOUTH BEND-Earnings of the
Bendix Brake Company, manufac.
turing brakes for several automo.
bile makers, for the first five month.
of 1928 were nearly twice those o.
the entire year of 1927. For las
year earnings we're $674,459, whit
for the five months period they ex'
ceeded 100000.