Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-25

Western system Norfolk II approached BY
eight other roads, i've OF which are trunk
lines. It's canal system through the
Dismal Swamp connects u with the SOUNDS
of North Carolina. Il has eight regular
steamboat lines and is the touching point
of innumerabie tramp steamships. Its
twin. Portsmouth, 10 thriving city. and
the navy-yard and repairing TO vessels
alone put vast deal Of money into circu-
lation.
Among the other industries of the CITY
by the Sea- are grain-elevator, two cot
ton-mills, several machine-shops and foun-
dries, carriage-factory. agriculturI-impls-
ment works. fertilizer-works. q soap-fac-
tory of large capacity. o boot and
shoe-factory, knitting-factory,. and
fiouring-mill. Additional industries that
will be started this year are an ice-fac-
tory, another cotton-factory. packing
mill, paper and en-box-factory. q
hat-factory, and several others. Nowhere
are greater inducements offered for the IN
vestment Of capital. As q place OF resi-
dence Norfolk is most charming. and du-
ring tho past year there has been great ac-
tiyity in real estate and decided advances
in values. During the same period char
ters were issued 10 nearly sixty Norfolk
improvement and investment companies,
duQ tuo pOpulHbaoH Los osc"Nhy AHSsS~~>'
FROM NORFOLK TO PErERsBuno.
In order to appreciate how the Norfolk
and Western scatters its benefits asit goes,
let US follow its line westward again: SUI
folk ~ the brakeman calls ont. and stop
is made at one of the gamest towns ~ vu-
ginia or any other State. Several times
the place has been swept by disastrous
conf,agrations. only to rise like Phoenix
from the ashes and make steps forward.
Suffolk is extensively engaged in utilizing
the timber supply of that region, and to
three planing- mills, one saw-mili, one
shingle-factory, one ekindling-wood factory,
an iron works. cottop-yarn mill, and three
agricuItural-lime works, it added last year
construction an ice-factory and On elec-
tric-plant, and IN contemplation furniture
works, q boot and shoe-factory, and two
more planlng mills.
Windsor, the next station, has a large
saw-mill and is place Of considerable
trade. Zuni, forty-one miles from Nor
folk, though an unimportant point, Is
looking up, being admirably adapted for
industries. At Ivor several firms are en-
gagged in the lumber trade, and there is
already peanut-factory, and Wakefield
makes heavy lumber shipments. Waverly,
Sussex county, is engaged IN the iumoer
business, furniture and wagon.manufac-
turing, and handles quantities OF peanuts.
Disputanta, Prince George county. IS the
seat of saw-mills, q wagon-factory,
spoke-factory, corn-mill, DC.
THE coCKADE CITY.
Eighty-one miles from Norfolk the his
toric city of Petersburg Is reached. Pc
tersburg, the Cockade City, whose bastions
fringed with fire kept the Federal armies
at bay so long, and whose fate marked the
downfall of the Confederacy. Here are
located extensive tobacco, peanut, silk,
flour, sumac. fertilizer, woodwork. trunk,
and numerous other industries. It is the
seat of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate
Institute (colored) and of the Central Lu.
natic Asylum. Recently an ice-factory and
q knitting-mill have been established at
Petersburg, and another knitting mill and
an griculturalimplement works are GER
tainties. Near Petersburg are some OF the
finest granite-quarries IN the celebrated
granite belt of the State, and at that city
and at Burkville the Norfolk and Western
connects with Richmond.
FROM PETERSBURG TO LYScHBURo.
At Church Ford, the first station west OF
Petersburg, there is q saw-mill; then
comes Ford's, the centre of Q considerable
sumac industry, and then Wilson, the last
station in Dinwiddie county. where are To-
Gated lumber-mill and -four and meal
MILL &c.
Wellville, Nottoway county. is shipping