The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-07-10
machinery, &c., in order for the coming
wheat crop. The office Of the firm is in
this city, on Cary between Tenth and

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this city, on Cary between Tenth ana
Eleventh streets. -. -
We are now at Mayo's bridge, on the
left side of which is large brick building,
formerly used as flour mill by Messrs.
Tackett, Kelly s. Ford, the capacity OF (which
was four hundred barrels of -four per day.
Lately it has been leased By the enter
prising firm OF Baughman Brothers, and
they are now putting in machinery to
make straw and other wrapping paper. 1t
is the only mill Of the kind south Of the
Potomac, and will 90 into operation about
the lst of August. 1t will at first turn
out six hundred pounds of paper per diem,
but will have capacity to produce three
times this quantity as soon as some addl-
tional machinery can be procured. Ad-
Joining this is Lynch's corn mill, with ca
pacity of shout, one hundred and fifty
bushels of corn meal daily.
Across the way is the mill OF the Man
chester Cotton and Wool Manufacturing
Company, which has six thousand spindles,
and can manufacture two hundred and
twenty thousand yards of sheeting and
shirting per year, besides large quantity
of woolen goods. Machinery from Eng
land costing $4,000 has been recently
placed in the mill, in which a very large
number of females are employed. Mr.. Pee
ple is the superintendent, and Mr.. William
Fl. Power agent; Office in this city, at the
corner of Fourteenth and Cary streets.
An hour or two can be spent watching
the workings of the machinery, which turns
raw material into cotton and WOODEN goods
of the best quality; but time presses, and
we leave to enter the paper mill formerly
owned by Messrs. Robinson & Fairbanks,
but now by Mr.. Wallace. This mill was
established by Mr.. Robinson in 1864. 1t
now employs about thirty hands, and can
manufacture over fifty thousand pounds OF
paper per year. Colonel Nat. Tyler, for
merly of the Richmond Enquirer, is agent,
and has his office in the paper warehouse
of Messrs. Baughman Brothers, 1919 Main
street.
We next turn to the establishment Of
Messrs. Dayton, Allen & Co., for the manu-
facture of all kinds of woodenware. The
making of buckets occupies the attention
of the forty employees. BY an extra effort
a bucket can be made in six minutes.
About one hundred and fifty are turned
out per day. Cedar or juniper wood IS
preferred for this purpose the latter, which
is generally used, being brought from the
Dismal Swamp uia Norfolk. Besides buck
cts bound with brass, galvanized and plain
iron, water-coolers, " "nogglns," and small
tubs are also manufactured. The firm
propose soon to commence the manuiac-
ture of wooden clothes-pins. By simple
machine which we were permitted to ex-
anime it is thought that forty boxes, OF
six gross each, can be made in day.
We leave this factory to go to the Dan
vile Railroad workshops, which are located
near the Petersburg Railroad bridge. On
our way thither we pass tie ruins of the
paper mill and tobacco factory formerly
owned and worked by A. Pearl, but were
destroyed by fire a few months since. The
capacity of the mill and factory was eight
hundred pounds of paper and fifteen hun
dred pounds Of tobacco per day. We un-
derstand that Messrs. Bradley s. Brother
contemplate building at an early day a
large manufacturing establishment on the
site of the ruins. We are now at the Dan
Vile shops, and find a large number Of
workmen engaged in making or repairing
railroad material. All the necessary ma
cbinery has been put up, and everything
THAT belongs to railroad can be made OF
repaired in the neatest and most substan-
tial manner, for proof of which we refer
the reader to the rolling stock OF the klch-
mond & Danville Railroad Company.
A distillery is about to 60 into operation
near the corner of First and Hull streets
The machinery has been put in, and every
thing is in readiness to manufacture
whisky.
A short distance from Manchester, on
Bell Island, noted for having been the pri-
son for the Federal soldiers captured by
the Confederates during the late war, are
the Old Dominion Nail Works, the capital
stock of which is 100000. These works
employ about two hundred and fifty hands,
and turn out about three hundred and
twenty-five kegs of nails daily. A visiter
who will put himself under the charge OF
Mr.. Douglass Baird, superintendent, or MIR.
Robert E. Blankinship, commercial agent,
will find much to astonish and interest
him. He will first observe in watching the
manufacture Of nails ragged globe OF
iron drawn from furnace at white heat
and then tumbled into small iron truck
and carried over an immense trip hammer
the bar is carried to rollers, one smaller
than the other, through which it is rolled
until it becomes plate of the required
thickness. 1t then passes to a pair o.
shears, where it is clipped into pieces
about six inches in length. These piece:
are submitted to white heat, and theI
sent to the machines, in which they arc
showed by about fifty workmen. Through
the machines they. go and fall into boz
below ready-made nails-the machinery
being so constructed as to make the mai
and put on the head at the same time
AS fast as they fall from the machine the.
are gathered into bins and thence trans
ferred to kegs, when they are. ready TO
shipment. The kegs are made at th'
works, workman making keg in sever
minutes. The ore for fixing or lining th'
furnaces is brought from Lake Champlain
distance Of fifteen hundred miles.
Along the line Of the canal are mum
Der of unoccupied mill-sites, which tn
trustees of the town will lease out TO
long terms of years, and on the most favor
able terms, to parties who desire to esta
blsh manufactures. While in growing
town and country like this almost any de
scription of manufactures would do we'll
,, those we believe to be particularly desira
BILE and would do the most are manufac
tories for agricultural implements of al
kinds, cutlery, calicos, rolling mills, pape
mills, carpets, SC. We may here mention
that the taxes are light, the town levyini
no tac ,ohateuer on any improvements bull
or on machinery operated on any propert
leased out by them.
THE STREETS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
The streets are laid out at right angles
, those running down to the river bein