The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-05-16

ming mp with rapidity cr'd''ah'e 10
..~ry and enterprise of their pro-
.....r>.
:,9ncncc Of these mills in on
...,r the production of wheat, show
,., \ ircinia grew the only grain that
.. when made int" -four, hc transported
... ... fniurv beyond the tropics, and in
81, establish the superiority Of the
...,i brand Of -four in the markets OF
...r,l. gives them anational Importance,
,.f,c, a warm interest with regard to
w.. 81. Ia the public mind.
-.n original Gallcgo Mills, owned by Mr..
.,,.,. a noted man in his day, were
..s. l,qS. and though Of limited capa-
r,.rr equal to the wants of the wheat
., community of that period. They
r. f.,n located on the canal, thr''
love Richmond. They were after
..r.r,ascd to double the original size,
....rc burned in 1892. When shurncd,
.... lad ra>>cd into the hands of the late
. , CuyyMI.m. lie rebuilt them in 1888,
.....r 100, Of the basin, almost in the heart
The city, upon greatly Increased
their capacity being 500 barrels per
10 meet the demands of the enlarged
crop. II was through this mill that
4 lego brand gained lis great rcputa-
H.aad.
r.. CALICO Mills were again destroyed
a.. i'm 1911, when a large amount OF
,rry Shared their fate. They were
.. ,manptly rebuilt 10y McSSrS. WARWICK
n..,>pALE, who had succeeded Mr..
...lrrr a> proprictors. In lis recon-
sion tbs time the establishment was
rvrh extended and improved. 1t
. supplied with twenty pairs of burr
g.. .,. and its capacity was from eight hun
=, one thousand barrels of flour per
..s From that time until the beginning
.,.. war the Gallcgo Mills continued to
....d their popularity and fame. With
.... other contemporaries they elevated
higher the Richmond brand, and con-
...l 10 encourage the cultivation and
..arA Of wheat. The receipts here be-
... tire war reached $780, 900 bushels per
..n. The animal manufacture Of the
moudmill> had reached the maximum
.aa. un0 barrels Of hour-ncarly all of
n was exported. The entire export
arhrunud inspection amounted to Co.,
Hrrcl>-l00, 900 of which came from
.N mills. The export of 50 large an
.., d.: iIpur commanded for this city It
Siderable foreign trade. 1t encouraged
.Itlug and owning here. and at the
.,..ar at the war we had Il conSidcra-
..., ot line clippcr-built vessels, en-
~ chiefly in the III" tradc-thc honr
.. furnishing the ready money for fully
Ho.Dn1 worth al imports. 1t is easy to
49,. hat stimulus was afforded by this
Az. a. the prosperity Of this city, and
IS t.', great manufacturing power i'm
....l ,hrifI into the rural districts which
their markets here. The high stand
& ii the Richmond brands always kept
g.. bees, qualities OF wheat at from five to
cents per hu>hcl above the quota
49, Of any other market.
Subsequent to lSi7, when the Gallcgo
2 were rebuilt, Mr.. BAEKspALE (whom
.HN RANDOLPH styled the most polished
rrmJn he had ever known, the part
.o VI. WARwICE, died, and was sue
Ted hv his sons; the firm becoming
|.&wl,K \ BARKSpALEs. OF course the
... stopped the foreign trade from this
~. aud cut down the operations of the
!, till they were running but a small
ton al the time. The struggle con-
led Nv the reduction OF the richer part
hi, city, including the CALICO Mills, to
...>. Cheering a> il is TO behold so large
PORTION of il rising again from ruins, there
$500 ,;gu of restoration TO life and industry
.ra'eiul as that Of the Gallcgo Mills,
1 hold 50 important a relation to the
.. IL and commercial prosperity of the
.E.
Tie new mills will be larger than the old.
They are one hundred and siXty-six by
a.,y-,iX feet, and six stories high. There
ha eight floors two i'll the roof of
r,acn and fourteen feet pitch. They
,aI Nyr twenty four pairs of burrs, with
~ ,ar latest Improvements, and a capacity
'we thousand barrels per day. There
(. lr storage room in the new establish
..at for two hundred thousand bushels of
r..st. and facility for receiving thirty
.,lld bushels per day.
Ia.,va,t building will consume 100000
X and 900, 600 feet of lumber 1t is
ael uU all sides with Baltimore pressed
k. The walls Oh the lower floor are six
..' tfj,k, dropping off until reduced to
.'. sect in the last story. The three lower
"t~trs are laid in best James river cement,
S. sr.utrd, forming walls, rs it were, of
.etr. The watcr-whcclS for propcll-
tine complex machinery OF the mills
... ,lrrc in number, each thrty-two feet
.lumrlcr bytwclyc widc-thc water be-
-,Ggpli"i from the baSir.
Tie mills We're rebuilt in 1871, under the
nsrulrudcncc OF Mr.. JosEpm HALL, archi-
:, who is the architect of the present
buildings. He is the inventor OF a
stem of supporting floors by continuous
tyn columns or posts from the ground
iAe roof. The immense weight Of grain
"a mil floors had in former times occa-