The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-28
Southern Manufacturers Nenable:
Snuff and Fine.Cut Factory.

The true "rccOnStruCtionStS" of the
south are not the men who are passing
their time in lamentations over their po-
ycrtv and defeat still less the men who
are taxing their ingenuity to discover new
bonds, guarantees, and tests with which to
supply the defects of a form of govern
mcnt hitherto proclaimed TO be little short
OF diyinelv inspired. When a Contlagra-
ton buricS the proceeds of years OF ton III
4 mass OF useless ruins, the wise man is
not he who wastes his days i'll lamcntation
over the wreck Of his fortune, nor he who
spends his time in criticising the defects OF
the system by which he attained the wealth
and power 50 suddenly swept from his
hands.
Ii is rather he who at once addresses
himself TO the task OF rebuilding, who, be-
fore the cmherS are cold, begins 10 clear
away the rubbish, and, unappallcd by the
calamity which has bciallcn him, plans the
restoration of his fortunes on scale OF
greater breadth, and 10y the exercise OF
greater zeal, industry, and enterprise than
before.
This is the true restoration. and il APP
plies no less to national catastrophcS than
To individual ones. The true friends ofthc
south are the men who, undismayed by the
private and public wreck around them,
have plunged at once into the labor OF re-
constructing the Frustrated material lnte-
rests OF the country, and have laid amid
the smoking ruins of u wasted land the
broad foundations of future prosperity.
Where these men are found they de-
serve the substantial sympathy and sup
port of their fellow-citizcnS and Of the
press, and it becomes public duty to eN-
tend to them every encouragement which
lies within the power of the citizen or the
lawful province of the State. Entertain
ing these views, we propose from time to
time to call attention in these columns to
the labor of such of our citizens as have
addressed themselves to the task of de!
veloping the material resources OF the
State by the application of capital and
skill to manufacturing pursuits.
About six months ago, James NJ. Nenable,
ESQ, OF this city, resolved to establish III
Petersburg q large snuff and iine-cut
chewing tobacco mandatory, superior, in
the completeness of its machinery and the
perfection of its arrangements, to anything
4lerctolore seen at the south, and equal to
anv establishment in the country or out OF
il. The progress so far made demonstrates
that in this resolve he is destined to sue
coed.
His advantages consist chiefly in the
fact that he is in the heart of the market
for the choicest tobacco manufactured on
the globe that he is at point OF easy and
rapid communication with the great fields
of tirst-class production, and at q point OF
~ rho fnraIup and InInpS
consumer. Able, also, to command an
ample force of intelligent white labor, he
felt encouraged to supply himself with the
most perfect machinery that the ingenuity
OF inventors had applied TO the manutac-
turc he proposed to establish, and hoping
that now, at least, the southern people
were prepared to do justice to southern
enterprise, he planned an establishment on
a scale of cost and completeness which
puts him at once on level with tirst-class
manufacturers.
A three-story building, two hundred and
fourteen by thirty -four feet, with wing
seventy by eighteen, furnishes him the
room. and handsome stationary engine OF
fifteen horse. power the necessary force tor
the operation of his mill. The machinery
consists of powerful grinder capable OF
turning out three thousand pounds of
snuff per day, cutter chiefly for the
preparation of his celebrated FINE-CUT
CHEWING TOBACCO, which, with its ponder
Gus arms whirling at the rate OF seven
hundred and fifty revolutions per minute,
Will easily cut thousand pounds of fine
cut tobacco per day, and complete set of
The secondary machinery, stcm-rollers,
snuii-mulls, packers, &C., &c.
Finding himself embarrassed at the out.
set in the effort to supply himself promptly
and at fair rates with the vast quantity of
boxes, both OF paper and tin, necessary for
his business, he resolved to become his
own manufacturer, and now produces at
the factory every box he needs, from the
size Of match box TO the largest packing
size used in the trade. He has recently
added heavy steel die for the construc.
tion of tin boxes, and as he has force of
carpenters always at work, he is absolutely
independent Of outside help In oil tho no.