The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-10

Win TWO TUBS Tor pressing, so that the |
mill and press can both be kept constantly |
at work. 1t has taken any number of
first-class premiums, and the purchasers
unhesitatingly pronounce it the best porta-
BILE cider mill ever offered in the market.
" Smiths Patent Tobacco CUTTER" which
is used for working up trash tobacco, is
especially adapted to the use of factories
which make smoking tobacco speciality.
Their power machines are second to none
in use, and are extensively purchased by
the leading Tobacco manufacturers of the
country. Mr.. Smith has also invented
machines for grinding tobacco stems, and
for pressing smoking tobacco into any sized
bale or shape that the ingenuityor fancy of
the manufacturer might suggest or desire.
"Smith's Improved Patent Well Fixtures"
are meeting with wide sale, and the man
ufacturers challenge the world to furnish
more perfect water-drawer. "Smith's
Patent Lever Straw Cutter" stands at the
head Of the list in sales, over forty thou
sand having been disposed of since it was
first patented. The "Old Dominion Corn
Planter" with fertilizer attach
ment, is also an invention of Mr..
Smith, and it is meeting with rapid
sales. This "sulky planter" is a recent
invention Of Mr.. Smith, and there is pro-
badly not more perfect planter, with
guano attachment, anywhere in use.
'The Eureka Corn Planter" is still another
invention of the same indelatigable worker
up of ideas into mechanical implements,
and it is believed that absolute certainty as
to the quantity of seed planted and dis
lance Of hill, has been reached in this SIM
ply constructed planter. Both these corn
planters, with "Smith's Corn Planter and
Seed Drill" which has been manufactured
for more than ten years, are among the
best labor-saving implements of the kind
now in use. The Virginia Corn Shelter"
is one of the earliest and most successful
triumphs of Mr.. Smith, as an inventor, and
in dispatching large crops there is no
shelter that can compare with it for speed,
durability and quality of work. His
Power Corn Shelter" is another machine
which happily attests the fertility of Mr..
Smiths mind in the way of inventive
faculty. We have by no means enumer-
ated all the agricultural implements in.
vented by Mr.. s., nor will the limits of
this article permit us to do so. 6. st..
The Office and warerooms of the compa-
|, ny are at No. 1852 Main street, and their
works extend entirely through from Main
to Franklin street, distance of nearly 400
feet. Their warerooms are twenty-five feet
front on Main street, one hundred and fifty
feet deep, and five floors high. Their ma
chine shops wood and irony are directly in
the rear of the warerooms. and have 'front.'
age of 1872 feet on Walnut Alley, with
depth of 65 feet. The first floor is used
for iron work, and the second and third
floors for wood work. Still further back,
and in the rear of the Machine shops,
but connected with them, is the
Blacksmith shop, with six FORCES, brick
and slated building. During the past year,
the company have added to their other
works, large brick Foundry, with Pat
tern shop and lofts, making their buildings
extend through to Franklin street. This
building is three stories, brick and slated,
with frontage of GO feet on Franklin
street. They employ force of about sew
enty-five hands, consisting of first-class
machinists, wood-workmen, blacksmiths,
pattern-makers and iron-moulders. In adj
dition to their own work, they deal in
goods of foreign manufacture, and can
supply every description of machinery,
implement, Or hardware that can
be needed on farm or. plantation. Their
goods and farming implements are all
adapted to the soils of the South, and they
guarantee their practical usefulness to
Southern agriculturalists. They also man.
ufacturs and sell tobacco shapes and tobac-
co machinery generally, and have an ex-
tensive trade in these with st. Louis, Chiea-
go, Cincinnati and Louisville. Their bust
ness amounted to about $4,000 the first
year after the war, and has steadily in
creased since, so that it is nearly double
that now. Their trade in agricultural inn
plements extends throughout Virginia and
the Southern Atlantic states, including
Georgia and Alabama, and the excellence
of their machinery and implements is CIV
ing them rapidly extending business
throughout the entire South. Virginia
farmers, coming to Richmond, should visit
their establishment and examine their
machinery and implements for themselves.