The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-11
Steel Companies and Door
Manufacturer Announce
Programs.
GARY TO GET BENEFIT
East Chicago and Hartford
City Plants Also to Be
Enlarged.
BY CHARLES c. STONE
State Editor. The Times

Expansion programs constitute
the feature Of an industrial and
business survey Of Indiana for the
week ended today.
The Illinois Steel Company an
nOunces additions to its plants are
planned to make possible an annual
output Of 2,500,0 900 tons. At its Gary
mills, the company proposes to erect
seven open hearth furnaces, two
batteries of by-product coke ovens,
each Of seventy units, bloom
mill and new strip mill.
Building permits for a total Of
s409, 300 have been issued at East
Chicago to the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Company covering addi-
tons to its works, the largest to
be a mill which will cost 100000.
Hartford City's major industry,
the Overhead Door Corporation, an
nounces that a plant addition now
in course of erection, will be COM
pleted by Nov. l, increasing the to-
tai of factory floor space to 100000
square feet. Further expansion is
planned to start in the spring. At
present the industry has 225 persons
on the pay roll. It is 700 doors be-
hind orders. despite day and night
working schedules.
Plant to Cost $4,000
The Producers Creamery Of
Marion has closed negotiations for
establishing a branch plant at Hart
ford City at a cost of $4,000.
Industrial development at the
western edge of South Bend is pres
aged by a half million dollar real
for 375 acres of land in the district.
The Bendix Aviation Corporation
recently purchased a tract in the
section at a reported price OF $4,000
an acre.
Conditions in various Indiana
cities are covered in the following
summary:
Charlottesville Western Fire
Apparatus Company, new subsidiary
of the Charlottesville Foundry Com
pany, has turned out its first truck
and quantity production is expected
to be started soon. The JeSchke
Wire Specially Company has booked
an order from a Paris, France, per-
funne manufacturer for 1000 900 wire
clips.
CoIumbus-The Columbus Gravel
Company announces an expansion
program, including installation OF
considerable new machinery.
Warehouse for Franklin
Franklin-The johnson County
Farm Bureau is seeking a site for
a cooperative warehouse, following
completion of preliminary arrange
ments for the venture. A bond OF
$4,000 has been filed.
RichmOnd-The Wayne Dairy
Company is engaged in an eXpan-
sion program which by Christmas
will enable it to double its present
capacity.
Wabash-The old Mikesell ashes
tos plan, which went into a re-
ceiver's hands, is again IN operation
under management Of a new con-
Germ, the Midland Asbestos Corpora
ton, into which the Cook. Andrews
81 Hayes brokerage firm of Buffalo
NY. put $4,000 and residents here
$4,000, the latter in the form OF a
two-year loan. The Wabash Can
ming Company has closed the sea-
sons run, having packed 1922, DOC
cans Of corn, besides a large guam
tity of peas. For the latter, Wa
bash county farmers were paid
5000.
La Porte Factory Expands
La Porte-Forced by increasing
business to expand its quarters, the
La Mode Garment Company, en-
ploying 200 persons, has leased part
of a building owned by the Great
Western Manufacturing Company
South Bend-PermitS for indus
trial construction issued here in one
day totaled $4,000. OF this amount
$4,000 will be spent by the Bendi2
Aviation Corporation on three new
factory buildings and the remainder
by the Indiana and Michigan Elec-
trio Company in remodeling It's
plant.