The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-06-25
LOCAL MATTERS.


MILLING INTERESTS OF R1cuMoND-THE
PRINCIPAL FIGURING MrILs-THErR Ca
RAC1Tr.-This city has for long time been
celebrated for the high and uniform grade
of its -four. The article manufactured at
the mills located here has been best
adapted for shipment abroad, and has con-
sequently always stood hjgh in foreign
markets. 1t is the only -four made in this
country which has uniformly stood the trip
through the tropics and remained sweet and
fresh. Whether it is that Virginia lands
are better adapted to wheat, or whether the
wheat raised here is of better quality than
that grown elsewhere, or whether it is owing
20 any popularity in its manufacture, we
10 not propose to discuss in this article.
We only desire to call attention to this city
us a market for wheat, give some sta,
'lstics Of its manufacturing power and ca
Pacities in that respect, and to impress upon
our grain-growers the fact that wheat will
netthem more money here than if shipped to
Baltimore or New York. 1t is true thata great
deal of wheat is annually bought here and
shipped to those ports, but such shipments
are usually of inferior qualities of wheat,
and such as cannot be used in manufactu-
ring the grades of -four which have made
the Richmond brands so famous through
cut the world. I s-...
The GaNego Mills
are in M unfinished condition. They have
not yet entirely recovered from the effects
of the great fire which destroyed so much
valuable property on the Sd of April, 1865.
There are now twelve five and a half feet
burrs in operation, but before the end OF
the season they will have eight more Of the
same size, making twenty in all, with CO.
pacty for grinding from twelve hundred to
iourteeu hundred barrels of flour per day
during the season. -..,.-..,..-.
The Harau Nils -
have thirty burrs. from four and half to
FIVE and half feet in size, and are pre-
pared to grind from fifteen hundred to six
teen hundred barrels Of flour per day.
The Manchester Mill,
owned by Messrs. Dunlop s. McCance, is
not so large structure as either of the fore
going, but there are in it sixteen pair of
FIVE and quarter feet burrs, with d eapa-
city of making seven hundred 10 eight hun
dred barrels Of flour per day. n"---@ .
The building used by these various
quantity of wheat; and there is but little
danger of the market being overstocked
With the newest and most approved i'm
prOyements for the purpose for which they
are designed, they will manufacture a grade
OF flour superior to any other. 1t will be
seen that the present capacity of these
mills combined, taken at the lowest estimate
for each, is $500 barrels per day; this, at
i've bushels of wheat to the barrel--the
usual arernge-will give consumption Of
1880 bushels Of wheat per day. - r.sl
Before the war, when these mills were IN
the full tide Of operation, the two largest
Of them have made, in round numbers,
100000 barrels Of -four each. The books
OF the flour inspector will show that there
has been inspected in this city as much as
0Vg,OOO barrels per year. a
The motive power for this vast amount of
labor is water, and the mills are SO stu
ated as to be but little affected By high
water. For few days, occasionally ,sboth
haxalPs and the Manchester mills are
stopped by freshets, but this cannot affect
Ue Gallego, which is on 8 level with the
oasn Of the James River and ,Kanawha
cana. and fed by water from it..
From the figures which we have given, it
Will be seen that the farmers of Virginia,
North Carolina, and Tennessee need not
seek elsewhere market for their wheat.
Var millers are always readyto purchase
wheat wheat and pay the best price for it. Be-
''aes our. own millers, there are always in
attendance upon our Corn Exchange large
buyers for northern millers thus keeping
up competition which ensures the highest
grlces to the farmer. The reduced rates Of
reight, and the through freight tariffs now
Existing on our railroads and canal, are
p;, atsS favorable to the producer in selecting
hehnond as his market. 1879 Eiots0