The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-07
S. F. BoWser Building Plant
Addition for Output to
Begin Jan. |.
PLAN MANUFACTURING
Mayer Brothers viii Add to
Repair Business at
Brazil.
BY CHARLES C. STONE,
State Editor, The Times

An industrial and business survey
of Indiana for the week ended to-
day shows noteworthy developments
at Ft. Wayne, Brazil, Elkhart,
Goshen, Hartford City and Evans
vile.
The S. F. Bowser Company of
FIT. Wayne will place a new product
on the market about Jan. 1, but its
nature has not been announced. To
take care of new production, the
company is erecting a chromium
plating plant, the first to be in
stalled by any industry in the city.
Highly specialized machinery cost
ing $4,000 will be placed in the
plant.
Other developments at FIT. Wayne
include moving of the Grand Lead
er store into its new $1,000,00O0
building, replacing structure de-
stroyed by 6re eleven months ago,
and Jsasing by Montgomery, Ward
& o., for $750000 of a store site.
Embarks in Manufacturing
Mayer Brothers, Brazil, has been
organized with a capital of $4,000
for new operations at the ole
Crawford and McCrimmon plant,
and in addition to general ma
chine repair business, will engage
in manufacture of power hammers
boilers, engines and other ma
chinery. It is planned to enlarge
the working force early next year.
Officials of the Elkhart rubber
works have organized a new COM
pany at Elkhart, as yet unnamed,
to engage in manufacture of gas =
kets for automobiles and machinery.
Work has been started on brick
factory building 50X150 feet.
J. w. Mount, Goshen, has leased
5000 square feet of floor space for
use in paint and enamel manu-
featuring business.
Plant Addition Ready
At Hartford City the Hartford
City Paper Company has completed
plant addition and machinery will
be installed in it soon.
Reports are current at Evansville
that the city is soon to be served
by another railroad, following leas-
ing Of 10000 acres of land by an
unnamed party, declared in some
quarters to be the Big Four rail-
road. The land is north of the city
in an area occupied by several fac
tories.
Conditions elsewhere in the state
are shown in the following sum-
mary:
AndersOn-A committee of the
Chamber of Commerce is making
a survey and obtaining other data
to be of assistance in obtaining
more industries for the city.
MariOn-This city's prosperity is
reflected by reports of freight
handled during the year by rail-
roads and traction lines. There
has been an increase each month
during 1928 over 1927, the Glover
Leaf Railroad reports, and the
freight business handled by traction
cars of the Indiana Service Corpora
ton, increased 800 per cent this year
over last.
Muncie-The area of this city has
been increased thirty acres by an
nexation of two subdivisions, the
Highland Park and Boxell and Parr
Factory May Be Sold
MISREPRESENTATION are under
way for the sale of the H. G. Bay
piano factory here to Chicago in
terestS which plan to establish q
woodworking plant. The plant is to
be disposed of following receivership
proceedings. The sale price is ex-
pected to be around $95 5000.
South Bend-A $150,000 building is
to be erected here as quarters for a
Sears, Roebuck & Co. store.
Observation-Disclosures of work
at the Atlas No. / coal mine, one of
the largest in Pike county, gives en-
ployment to $50 men.
EInora-Graham Bros. new $50, 900
cheese factory here is expected to be
ready for operation about Jan. /. 1t
will have daily capacity of ten
tons of milk, and In emergency twice
that amount can be handled.