The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-15

of every day occurrence. Their custom
ers are convinced Of the superior adapta-
bility of southern-made implements to our
system Of labor, and the result is the in-
creased trade brought to Richmond, which
is every day more widely acknowledged 10
be The manufacturing city Of the South.
| WATT & KNIGHT. s...5 -
| George Watt and Colonel w. G. Knight,
associated under the firm name Of Watt &
Knight, are largely engaged in the manu-
facture Of cultivating implements. Their
specially, however. is the plough, and pre-
eminently the Watt plough, which is gene
rally conceded to be one of the very best in
use. Mr. Watt obtained his first patent in
date of '5S, $50, '66, and '67. It took all of
the first premiums in the ploughing match
| at the Danville Border Agricultural Fair in
1867, and took premiums last year at the
Eastern Alabama Fair at OpeGka; at the
State Fair of North Carolina at Raleigh; at
the Border Agricultural Fair at Danville,
Va; at the South Carolina State Fair at
| Columbia; /; at the Valley Agricultural Fair
at Staunton, Va; at the Lynchburg Agri-
cultural Fair; at the Rockbridge Agricul-
tural Fair at Lexington, Va; and received
August last at the Experimental Farm of
Pennsylvania, at which over fifty different
patterns of ploughs were tested. This
speaks we'll for southern inventions.
| Watt & Knight do large business in
nearly all Of the southern States, and espe-
cially in North Carolina, South Carolina.
Alabama, and Georgia. Over II 900 of their
| ploughs are now in use South, and in the
season which commences in October and
ends in May they make daily shipments to
southern cities. One man-Colonel B. G..
L II or af 1n, 81 l.
| on his plantation, and they frequently sell
| from fifty to seventy-tive al time to a sim
| gle planter. Before the war cotton plant
ers only used the onc-horse ploughs; now
| they are using large numbers of two, three,
| and fOur-horse plOughs, and Watt s. Knight
are supplying the demand for these better
and heavier implements ut rapid rate.
Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, come in
for fair share of their consignmcnts.
| Three out of five of their ploughs are
| shipped South.
1t is worthy of note that the ploughs
| made in Richmond (and we have the autho-
| rity of experienced plough-makers and agri-
culturistS for the statement), although more
durable and better adapted to the use of
| the southern planters, are sold actually
cheaper than the tlimsy affairs Of northern
make. They are beginning to appreciate
this down South; and hence the remark of
o venerable MissSsippan the other day that
henceforth he would buy only Richmond
| made agricultural implements, and advise
his neighbors to do the same. --,..,
George Watt glories in the name of
plough-makcr," and claims to be the in
ventor and father Of all ploughs made on
the cutf-brace principle. He thinks and
talks of nothing but ploughs, and what he
doesn't know about them isn't worth know
ing.
J. W. CARDWELL & co.
| This is 4 concern of nearly twenty years
standing, having been formed in 1854 with
| j. w. Cardwell and Horace l.. Kent as the
partners. In 1863 Mr. Kent retired, and
MIR. Samuel Frledly, northern gentleman
of means and enterprise, became associated
with Mr.. Cardwell. The business has since
been carried on without change in the style
of the firm.
/ Cardwell IL Co. do fine and Increasing
business. Until about 4 year ago their
large storehouse and extensive shops were
located on Cary street between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth. These We're then almost
totally destroyed, with their contents, by
fire, but the prOprietors, with praiseworthy
energy, went to work again, almost the
next day, and there has been an increase
rather than dimnution Of their custom,
since the disaster.
They now have large four.story build
ing on the corner of Fifteenth and Cary
streets, and extending back to the Dock, in
which all the departments of their business
are carried on under the eye Of the senior
partner, who is practical mechanic of va
ried intelligence and experience. Employ.
ment is given generally to eighty hands, but
the establishment is capable Of keeping q
hundred busy.
This firm, like the one first noticed, sup.
plies the agricultural community with every
Implement needed on n plantation, but &C
further in doing general foundry business
Their foundry is one of the best in the city,
and turns out excellent work of all kinds
In the way of agricultural implements they
make speciality of Neutrality-suspicious. anG
horse-powers of improved kinds. Card
Wells thresher and cleaner for wheat anC
oats, which is well known throughout the
South, is here manufactured. 1t meets W ith
3 constant and ready sale.
| They also manufacture various kinds OF
straw-cutters, corn-shellers. grain-drills,
poughs, rakes, tedders, &C., and vii
supply anything in their line, wherever
manufactured. at New York or Baltimore
prices. Active in bringing their wares to
the attention Of the public, and prompt in
their attention to orders, they are reaping a
factures, which really it is beyond their
ability to supply. They are making daily
shipments to points South, and their order
| book shows large customers in Alabama,
Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and
| Tennessee.
| p. H. sTARKE.
| The plough manutactory of Patrick
Henry Starke is located at l440 Main street.
Mr.. Starke was for about ten years engaged
in the same line of business, in partnership
with George Watt. In 1853 the old firm
was dissolved, and each of the members
commenced the manufacture and sale of
agricultural implements on his own account.
Mr.. Starke did general business of this
kind until 1868, when he came before the
| world in the charcter Of an inventor, having
invented and patented what is now well
known as the Dixie plough. 1t ut once be-
came popular, and Nlr. Starke soon found
that to supply the orders for it took SO much
of his time and attention that it would be
necessary for him to devote himself almost
exclusively to its manufacture. This he
has done, and although he still deals to some
extent in other agricultural implements,
and especially in tools for tilling the soil,
the Dixie plough is his speciality, and his
establishment is known to everybody rs L
"plough mandatory"
The Dixie is not yet two years old, but
has taken premiums in every variety of
soil-to wit: AT Jersey, H., in the prairie
lands; at Eatonton, Ga, in the !odmy
lands of the South ut Duilville, Va, i'll the
red clay country; and at the Virginia State
Fair, having been tried on various grades
of soil. Mir. Starke keeps large force
employed in his factory, and his foundry
casts from 250 to 800 tons of iron per an
mum. All of the work on the plough, from
buying the timber for the woodwork, or
the pig-iron for the castings, to the last
finishing stroke, is done under his own eye.
A branch establishment at Alton, H.,