The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-14
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BUILDING FIELD
One Stone Company Alone
Has Orders for 100
Carloads.
100000 PLAN FILED
Board at East Chicago
Proposes Improvement
of School Structures.
100000 PLAN FILED
BY CHARLES G. STONE
STATE Editor. The Times

BY CHARLES c. STONE
STATE Editor. The Times
Indications that building is re-
viving formed the outstanding de-
velopment noted in a business and
Industrial survey of Indiana for the
week ended today
The Alexander King Stone Com
pany has booked an order to pro-
vide sixty carloads Of stone for the
Falk Clinic building. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Other orders. including one for the
new University of Notre Dame
stadium, bring the total booked by
the company 10 100 car loads. Of
ficials report a large number of
inquiries and express a belief that
1880 will be one of the best years
the stone business has experienced.
Operations have been resumed at
the quarry of the Ralph Rogers
Company, near Versailles. with
twenty men employed.
A school building program for
East Chicago, involving expenditure
Of $1,000,000 over a period of five
years, has been submitted by the
school board to the city council for
approval.
Oil and Gas Outlook Good
DR.. William H. Logan, Indiana
state geologist, announces there are
indications that promising oil and
gas field will be developed on the
eastern edge of Monroe and Law
renee counties. He cites two new
gas wells and one oil well recently
brought in.
Conditions in various Indiana
cities are shown In the following
summary:
Muncie-Of1cials of seven indus
tries here consider the outlook for
the next few months as generally
satisfactory. The industries are on
schedules ranging from full to half
time operation. Nearly 1000 per-
sons are on the pay roll of the Mum
Gle Products Corporation, General
Motors subsidiary. Most of the men
discharged during a lull in opera
tions of the Warner Gear Company
have been re-employed, according
to E. B. Baltzly, president. The
Muncie NIalleable Foundry Company
plant is operating at nearly 100 per
cent of capacity. as are those OF
KitSelman Brothers and Indiana
Steel and Wire Company.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. here Is
not alarming, business leaders de-
clare, and estimate that 80 per cent
of men who we're working at this
time in 1929 are now employed.
Plant Addition Enlarged
Washington-Plans for an add
ton TO the Reliance Manufacturing
Company plant have been enlarged
to provide space for ATS employees.
Bids on the addition will be received
early in March.
South Bend-The Bendix Brake
Corporation has purchased the
Bragg-KlieSrath Corporation OF
Long Island, N. Y. manufacturing
an auxiliary braking device for
vehicles, and the deal will result In
strument Company here has bought
additions to the force at the Bendix
plant here.
Wabash-The Reliance Manufac-
turing Company. a new industry
here, has started operations with
forty-three persons employed, and
it is expected the force will be in
creased Immediately.
EIkhart-The Martin Band In
strument Company hree has bought
controlling interest in the Harry
Pedler & Co. clarinet manufactur-
ing concern.
Arcadia-The D. c. jenkins Glass
Company plant here has been
closed for repairs, and will resume
operations in about six weeks.
East Chicago-Capacity of pipe
lines which bring oil from Texas to
the Empire Refining Company plant
here will be almost doubled. Pres
ent lines carry 10000 barrels daily
and with the additions the capacity
will be $4,000.
PortIand-Work of rebuilding
the burned plant of the j. A. Long
Company. packers, will be started
early in the spring.
100000 Theater Planned
Mishawaka-The Indiana FEEDER
ated Theaters, Inc. is considering
plans for erection OF 100000 talk
ing picture theater with seating
capacity of 1900.
Neutrality-suspicious. will be start
ed Monday at the local plant of
the Western Indiana Gravel Com
pany of Lafayette. Gravel machin-
cry will be manufactured here in
the old factory of the Ames Shovel
and Tool Company, re-equipped at
O cost of $4,000
I.oogootee-The Loogootee Shale
Brick Company is planned to begin
operations soon in a plant remod-
eled at a cost of $4,000.
Terre Haute-The A. Herr Com
pany. operating this city'S oldest
department store, has been merged
with the Meis Brothers Company,
which operates the youngest de-
partment store.
Huntington-The plant Of the de-
frInct Playtime Equipment Com
pany, bought by a group of local
business men at bankruptcy sale,
is to be placed in operation with
a force OF 100. The new owning