The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-01-14
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E.nf,s Hsycharts' Megdsiae for January mas :"
s.s.rsstius account OF the mechanical msou'".
eur,ss, commercial, &s, pursuits Of neaa,o1
from which ws condense some pro"'n'a' ~.
r.. noss Of these statistics were collected VIVA
much Industry ~ tho Eaqsrsr' anu puo"'as'
=. nat papsr Q short tims since. Tnere are
q, ,...nf.c,urtpg and mechanical establish
,..,e. Of various kinds, employing u,sil per
-. s.nstsl invested 10 tools and machinery,
a, $40 los cspital invested 10 real estate, oceu.
,,sa by establishments, 81, SOC. 2;o; total amount
A. products iu twelve moaths tis, ass,see. CT
IN sse manufactures, 90 are tobacco establishments
employing a,es3 hands, machinery valued at
Ass. 900; real estate Se7s,ooo; amount Of sales
Sd. As, ooo There are -four establishments, With
SIS haeds, 100000 value Of machinery, $65o,ot0
value real sssase amount OF sales s. e43 637 There
are two iron rolling mills, and iron and steer
milL snployiag 4io hands, value Of tools aud ma
shins.y $4,000, real estate $4,000, amount OF
salss 1Asl 500 Seven foundries and machine shops
go men, tools and machaery $751; GOO, real estate
al 1000 amount OF sales s795ooo Besides these
are railroad machine shops, agricultural impie-
msuts, cotton factories, nail factory, &C., &c. en-
ploying large number Of men and large amount
Of capital; IL carriage factories, Q book and job
odicas, besides other establishments In every de-
partmsnt Of industry.
The amount of merchandise and manufactures,
not the product Of Richmond, sold during twelve
months, was so, l42,S26. There are ave principal
hotels, employing 325 hands, value OF real estate
sl7sO0o, amount Of sales 1910 0O besides 63 other
hotels and boarding houses. OF the profession,
there are 80 clergynen So teachers and assistants
- 90 IA,
The total banking capital of Richmond is &c.
Qll,l0e. The canal aud railroads ceuteriDg here
ere a. follows: James River and Kanawha Canal
lo6 miles, cost $s,6l1 ,90s n Richmond aud Dan
Vile Railroad las miles, cost ss,4S! ,6s4 50; PEI
tersburg Railroad, including branch to Port Wal
shas Is miles, cost ,2O2 900 el Rich mond, Fred
sricksburg aud Petemsc, 10 miles, cost 81 1885,
3eo %; Virginia Central, 1876 miles, cost s. ,296,
7e1 II; Richmond and York River, unfinished
4sOs, El94; Clover Hill Railroad, feeder o
Richmond and Petersburg, Is miles, cost $22o, 600
Regarding the South Side and Tennessee as virtu
ally esnteriug here, We may add Virginia and TeL
nessee. Including Satville branch, 2l3 miles, &C 81
t6,6s2,s706s; South Side Railroad from Lvnch'
burg TO Junction. II miles, cost $2,ls5, 6SS Al
Total, e74 miles, cost SO s73, Sj2.3I.
Tho number of sesgoing vessels owned In Rict
moud 10 ~, with tonnage OF 5000. The Messrs
Curris have lately launched another vessel OF S5t
TONS Five of these are iu the Rio trade, and there
ere many transient American and foreign veseeli
engaged 10 tho coasting and foreign trade. Ih'
arrivals and departures into and from the docs
numbered, 10 twelve months, 1,I52 inward, sne
1891 outward. The inward entered In ballast are
NOT couuted-hencs this difference. There art
four regular lines Of steaners-cne to New York
Of two superior vessels, tonnage about $500. The
company iutsnd to add another ship. The line t.
Baltimore consists of three steamers Of 300 tons
70 Philadelphia three of 500, but all OF greater
actual capacity. These lines carry full frelghts
and some of them are deservedly popular as pas
sanger vessels Besides these are two steamers Il
Norfolk, to which third will soon be added, ant
several small steamers aud many small sailing
vessels engaged In the trade Of the river, i:s tri
butariss and inlets.
The total foreign imports and exports for the les
fiscal year, were-imports, So65 ,9o6; exports o. os
e0l. The value OF foreign importations, by Rich
nnopd merchants, through New York, Is not g.
ven, but 10 known to be large. Of these goods tn
amount only of $3.50 was brought here unds
warehouse bonds and the duties paid in Richmond
the remaining paid duties in New York. Tn
direct foreign importatiOns to this port CONSISTED
chiefly of coffee, sugar, molasses, plaster aud &c
emo; the foreign exports were OF q great variet.
Of articles, but those of chief value we're Tobacco
and heur. Nearly all our manufactured Tobacco
~ exported, but mostly coastwse p 20 hogshead
OF leaf tobacco and stems were exported to 10
eigu countries, and about 800 coast"is.; tn
larger part Of the manufacturers OF flour. which
amounted TO nearly $3.50 barrels, was exporte'
;, foreign countries during the past year; tn
average value Of tobacco, per hogsbead, as entere
ct the custom house during the last fiscal yeaI
ending June 30th, is $l61, and Of -four 1926.
The article in Hunts Eagdzine, from which "
condsnss these facts, also publishes tables, b!
which it 10 shown that the product of the maui
featuring establishments Of Richmond gives to on
population an average of nearly three times u
much Is the average of Philadelphia; more thar
twice % much ~ New York; one third more that
Boston more than three times a. much as Buffalo
and nearly four times as much as Chicago. A ta
bis setting forth tho number of hands employed il
producing the above amounts, shows another deci
ded superiority Of Richmond over any of the cite
above enumerated. In our milling business, 3l'
hands turn out over four aud q half millions o
dollars, illustrating the advantage We enjoy in oul
Immense water power, aud in being at the outlet O
an interior, which produces the only wheat, the
nour from, which has always been shipped to ex-
writer also publishes table of the population aud
amount Of real aud personal property in some &
Our principal cities, which in New York is Pei
head, ITO %, Boston, l,4l9 96; Buffalo, AIS ID
Chicago, 27s 50; Detroit, $40 90; Richmond
(whitss) 69S A. Crhis Isl gratifying discovery te
the writer, who had no idea that he was worth thai
much money, and will Immediately proceed to III
vest 1t in city stock, as a slight tribute Of graft
And md cd
OF fortune)
The population Of Richmond Is estimated to b
at this time, whites 80 900; blacks $4,000; tota
(Which includes the spburbs) $4,000 Assessed
value of real estate within the corporate limit
$ls,42S,3is; Il IersonaI property, $s,s'o,3'l' o
resl estate outside corporate limits, 81 100000;
personal property outside, $1,000 o; estma'e
value Of negroes, $7,C64 900; Federal, State an
other property, exempt from taxation So."os'''(
Real property OF james River aud kanawha Cana
Company, $500. 900; State andCity stocks held Il
this citv. At n low estimate, $3,0o0,ooO. Tota
value Of real and personal property of Richmon
Al. so2.7ls, Investments of Richmond citizen
III Western lands, cotton plantations, &c, wou
probably swell the above amount to $55,0Oo,o0o
OF the productive property Of the city, are tn
Water Works and Gas Works. The water, will
which the city 10 supplied 10 raised from the rive
By six force pumps into reservoir holding nesrl.
eleven million gallous, and distributed to ever.
part Of the city by pipes q miles long. The!
were commenced in $780, The whole sum ex
pended upon them to the present time, is 1924,
7lI.7l. The Gas works we're commenced In 1850
and cost for construct ton 500 1889.
The water power of Richmond Is immense, de-
rived from the James River, which, from the com
. Nepcemsut of the rapids, about I'VE miles abov
the city, dsscends 1l0 feet to tide level. No pac
10 the Uuissd States possesses superior advantage
Sor manufacturing industry. mild and health
fui climate, nearly 1000 miles of railroad, peuetIs
ting the richest mining, grazing and sgricui,ur
n distrcts, unlimited supplies Of coal at her yer
doors, aud her mountains teeming with iron Of til
best quality We have not room for other point
Of iptsrsst 10 tho article 10 HUNTS Algds6se; bu
ean sax Nth truth that In no nnint does II syau