Muncie, Indiana, Industries

FACTORY AND MILL.

NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM

MUNCIE'S INDUSTRIAL

Institutions - Busy Scenes Around the

Big Manufacturing Concerns --

Personal Gossip.

No more interesting and instructive day could be spent by one not familiar with them, than in visiting the big manufacturing industries in Muncie. The number, over forty in all, embraces nearly every class of products, and in making the rounds the visitor is sure to find many things to interest him. Go through the big iron and steel industries on the south where several hundred tons of the product are turned out daily. There you will see the great furnaces where the crude iron is converted into a molten mass from where it is conveyed by hundreds of skilled mechanics to the rolls and worked into desired shapes.

Along the west, south, and eastern borders of the city will be found great glass factories where many car loads of glassware are turned out daily. The products of the glass houses includes: bottles, fruit jars, and window glass. In the manufacture of glass natural gas is used to a better advantage perhaps than in any line of manufacturing. The fuel is especially adapted to the glass business and since its discovery scores of glass factories have sprung up in the Indiana gas belt and all seem to be doing a prosperous business.

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There is also a glass pot factory where are made the big pots for the glass houses, which have to be replaced every season.

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