The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-19

STILL FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS
BY OUR MAN-ABOUT-TOWN.

liichmond's magnificent Industrial Ad-
vsntages Again strikingiy Manifested -
What I'll Chained Waters OF the james
are Doing for Ci,iiisation-Thc Old Do
mion < faeker Works.
Everything seems to climb, says Sir
John Lubbock. The quadrupeds climb.
reptiles climb. and many plants climb :"
Richmond Is also climbing. slowly in
some cases, but surely: moving up and
on with q steady pace, indicative Of GER
tain success; Of the realization Of fond
dreams Of wealth and municipal great
ness.
There has never been time when a
resident of the Capital Of the Old Do
minion being hailed as to where he was
from. could not with pardonable pride
reply" Richmond, Virginia" The
traditions OF the city glisten with gal
iantry. Whether IN war or peace, no
spot sullies Ler escutcheOn. Richmond
ia sclfmade place, and IS not too
proud of the job, dcploTable condi- !
tion into which many individuals. as
well as municipalities frequently fall. |
There has never been any fare Of trum
Itkc va tiBrti III llt NnVW-
ing that Richmond has been made be-
fore the world. Her name, her fame
and her prosperity are the property Of
history. and cannot be disputed. The
TINES simply means TO present these
facts TO the world. Nothing more. no.
thing less.
A commencement will be made by
reference - what has been accom-
plished by Mr.. Warner Moore. lie has
grip on water greater. perhaps. than
any one individual in Richmond. He
knew that water enriched vegetation.
clothed the low grounds with green and
the mountains with snow, scuipturcd
rocks, excavated valleys and grooyed
harder rocks with the ice chisel Of by
gone ages. He determined TO chain
come of the wasting waters of the
james aud set them to work for him
self.
On the 2d Of las. August he bought :
the Dunlop & McCance manufacturing
mills. situated on the Manchester side Z
of the river. These mills were built /
early in the ffties Of this century. at
cost of half million of dollars. Mr. q
Moore at once proceeded TO renOvate :
them and put ia the very latest macbiu-
cry Tor the manufacture of flour and {
meal that could be bought. The old !,
burr system was dispensed with. and
the more perfect roller system intro
duced. Before all improvements had :
been completed Mr.. Moore found that
he would have 10 pay seventy-two g
thousand dollars for the work. \
All of the machinery is run by water
from The inexhausiible supply furnish =
ed by James river. The mills turn out n
daily five hundred barrels of flour and
nine hundred bushels of meal. The
corn meal finds ready sale in our local
market. The flour is sold both here y
and in the markets of South America. j
The South American product is not I
quite a. good as that disposed of locally.
Right at the mills is a large cooper-shop. n
where the barrels are turned out at the /
rate of five hundred a day. For the j
South American trade the following
named brands are made: Dunlop {
Pate mt "McCance. 'Petropolis, " Is
''njuca." and Pioneer" The local q
brands are: Manchester Gem. flames
River Falls. aurora. odd D0mia- !
ion' "Cariocs.' "Olive Branch, " i
"Shockse. . and "Ches,erfield. Ship b
stuff. brdtyn.stun, and bran are sold in Il
large quantities. Railroads run into
the yard of the mills, and grain can be Is
taken from the cars and carried into {
the mills without being touched by d
hand. II
eel
On the Richmond side Of the river
Mr. Moore has the StOckOe manufacture II
ing mllsalsOr run by waterpower. THESE n
were built in 1876. burned down in l.
1884 and rebuilt the same year. They N
grind corn altogether, and turn out one II
thousand bushels IA every twenty-fOur
hours. The roller process 10 used here
also. The most of the meal is sold in
Richmond, although the trade is spread
ing out, especially in the State of
Georgia. where considerable quantity ID
liz sold annually.
Adjoining this mill is a plaster mill,
where great quantities of Nova Scotia n,
plaster is ground and put up in bags for ~
shipment. a large three-masted ~
schooner. from vaScotia, with her jib m
boom gone. and sails in shreds, WAS at r,
Mr.. Moore's wharf yesterday unload ID,
ing with plaster. She had been caught fe
in the late gale en- royGge. Close by is s,
the largest eumac and bark mill in the n,
sotutn. ana tifc. TOO. - run Nv NNi1l. fe
1t is capable of grinding eight hundred "A
tons OF sumac year This is bagged RI
and sent TO New England. where it is fe
used to tan goat skins, making morocco lin
Of them.
The oak bark il also ground and
bagged and then exported, principally TO
TO Liverpool, Bremen, Havre. Amster- sic
dam aud Rotterdam. The bags carry rt
li2 pounds each, and about $500 tons Is.
ale annually exported. la his various 30
establishments Mr.. Moore gives employ br
inent to lis people. and his weekly pay ne
roll amounts to 500. III
Mr.. Moore is also largely interested an
in ice dealing. His company is known k'
as the Home Ice Company, and he han I'M
dies fifteen thousand tons of Penob III
scot ice per season. Forty hands aud %
lifty horses are employed during the
busy season.
BY reason Of being so largely inter Gle
ested IN trade and manufacture, Mr.. Pc
Moore is capable of forming good Fiji
idea of Richmond as trade ceutre. He Blu
sand yesterday: Il do not think there is Ho
a city in the country better adapted for SCI
trade and manufacturing purposes. If Pc
the government would deepen the chan
tel Of the James river, We would have
al that we could possibly ask. The D.
chesapeake and Ohio Railroad ought TO
give us coal. This would be big thing.
or then instead of going down the !