The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-31
Biz Four and Midland Will
Make improvements in
Indiana.
STONE BUSINESS B0OMS
Shipment of Largest Order
Ever Booked Includes
1890 Carloads.
BY CHARLES G. STONE.
STATE Editor. The Times.

Railroad construction work involT-
ing expenditure Of 55.350,0o0. heaTv
PRODUCTION schedules and excellent
prospects in the Limestone district
are outstanding in 2 business and
industrial silrvev Of Indiana for the
seek ended TO-DAY.
The Big Four railroad announces
plans for tUo projects One, to cost
e2ooo.0o0 includes double tracking
from Terre Haute 70 Sanford, Z
distance Of eight and one-half miles
the work to be started Saturday.
Five bridges are TO be built along
the route. including one 700 feet
long This work is in furtherance
Of the railroads aim to completely
double track its route from ST. Louis
n Terre Haute.
Doulle Track tn Re Laid
Another project of the Big -Four,
70 cost 81 100000 IS double tracking
from Lebanon to WhitestoWn q dis
lance of tVenty-One miles. will be
started at once. J. z. Cameron Of
Of the Walsh Construction Com
pany. davenport, Ia, holder Of the
CONTRACT. will be resident engineer
for the work. He will open an office
i'm Lebanon Saturday. A new freight
house will be built at Lebanon.
Three -fourths of the Central In
diana Midland railroads tracks
between Anderson and Advance are
n be rebuilt at a cost of S350G00. /
is planned to begin the work during
the summer. Forty miles of steel
rails and $4,000 ties will be required.
Two bridges will be built.
Shipment Of the largest order in
history has been started by the In
diana Limestone Company from the
BLOOMINGTON Bedford district. This
is stone for the new Department Of
Commerce building at Washington.
requiring / .29o carloads. Cost of the
building, including stone. will be
sf7.O00.O00 Besides this order. the
company holds one for the stone to
be used in the new Internal Reeve
nue building. Washington.
A new quarry of the Indiana Ooll-
tic Stone Company, one and one
half miles north Of Bedford, has
started production. A railroad
switch has been laid. two derricks
erected and four channeling ma
chimes installed.
Stone Contract Probable
Prospective stone business includes
2 contract for nearly 100000,
which is being considered by the
board Of commissioners of Milwau-
kee county, Wisconsin, who con-
ferred at Bloomington this week
with representatives of the Indiana
Limestone Company and the Indi-
ana Oolitic Stone Company.
The following summary shows
conditions in q number Of Indiana
cities;
Cravfordsville-Wor of remodel
ing buildings formerly occupied by
the Pioneer Box Company. TO be
used by the Apex Stamping Com
panv. a new industry here, is under
way. It is expected that operations
will begin June l. A force OF about
seventy-five will be employed.
Bloomington-The Showers Bros.
Company. furniture manufacturers.
VII add more night shifts within a
few days to keep production up TO
increasing demands. In one day,
shipments OF kitchen cabinets alone
reached 1900.
KckOmo - The Bowen Barker
Company announces plans for new
automobile service station which
will be one of the largest buildings
here. 1t will be l00xl60 feet.
Capacity Output Ordered
Anderson-The Guide Lamp Com
pany announces that it will go ca
pacitv production Saturday. 1t pro-
duced 1858. 222 lamps in the first
four months of this year. and the
present output is 10000 units a day.
Richmond - The Wayne Dairy
Company has leased building AK
100 feet in dimensions. adding 90
per cent to its present floor space.
The volume Of business has been
ouadrupled in the last four years.
Lebanon-Most lines Of trade and
Industry in Boone county showed
good GAINS for April this year over
the same month in 1928. Automo-
bile sales increased from 63 to 81.
Practically all plants here are run
ming regularly and the outlook Tor
crops is good.
Plant to Be Enlarged
Seymour - An addition 10 the
plant Of the Seymour Manufactur-
ing Company. giving 1t 10000 more
SQUARE feet OF floor space, is to be
built Immediately. The cost Will be
$4,000. A site IS being cleared for
the Southern Indiana Telephone
and Telegraph Company's new
building to cost $4,000.
IT. Wayne-Zone Offices OF two
General Motors subsidiaries TO DC
opened here July !, will employ loo
persons. The officers will be those
OF the General Motors Acceptance
CORPORATION and Chevrolet Motors
South Bend-The Colin B. Ken
nedv Radio Company announces at
the end OF its first months produc-
ton. orders exceeding 100000 have
been booked.
Terre Haute-Work on erection OF
2 plant Tor the Schwartz Woodwork
Company is being rushed 1t VIII
employ seventy five men. The Pack
ard Shirt Company, a new industry
has ninety-eight on its pay roll.
Mt yernon-The local plant OF the
overall Corporation Of American Is
adding 10 its working force OF
eighty-five. officials announcing
there is employment fo- from twen-
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