The sun., 1902-10-19
annual sale Of the manufactured article
amounts to cloee TO ei2.o00.0oo

iron industry with the old Tredegar Iron
Works Of ante-belluni days still in pros
porous operation This industry Includes
he manufacture Of locomotives, the plant
in that line having been lately increased
/ with bright prospects for still further devcl-
| opment. TEo manufacturing here mas c:ose
To sioon.O0 capital invested, employs over
5000 hands and ha, an output in -ales Of
well on toward 100 800 year.
Shipbuilding. which nowadays il a branch
, of the iron industry, is represented here
10y the large and growing plant of the Trigg
| company, which II getting some valuable
contracts from the Government, and there
| are those here who see for Richmond an
| important development, A. a ship-huding
centre.
OTHER IMPORTANT INDUSTRIES.
Richmond has the largest fertilizer plant
! in the South, and the Manufacture of fer
| tllizers since the recent development on
| such an enormous scale of truck raising
| in Virginia and North Carolina has become
| n very important industry in the South.
| The fertilizer. chemical. lime and plaster
plants here are turning out nearly s7,0o0,Oc
| worth of products annually. have an in
| vested capt. al in I he neighhorhood Of 5000
! o,0 and employ about 100 hands. There are
| ten or a dozen concerns, big and little.
! engaged in he business.
| In the tobacco manufacturing here there
| should I've included the making of cigar.
| cigarettes and cheroot~ IN which u capital
| Of abou, s2OoO.Op il distributed among
| some fort y-t'c or fifty factorics, employing
| about $500 hands and turning ont some
si,joo,vo worth of products annually.
Ricl mpnd, too. las the large-' publishing
| hou-" in ihe South and in blank books,
| binding and publishing l. doing a business
| of Clo-.' To 81 ,Jp.OS a year in sale, e'u-
| ploying about 200 nands and about 81 ,HU-
80 invested capital.
| In addition TO tina, there are glass works,
| paper mill, agricultural implement manu-
factories and a host # other smaller con-
| Germs all going TO swell the City'- great
! and growing volume of trade. In fact Rich
| mord i rapidly beginning 10 take on the
| appearance ,f a notable manufacturing
| centre. for which her fine transportation
| facilities and abundance Of cheap coal
| admirably IT, her
| Iarg' interests in several depart meuts
| OF manufacture are even now looking this
| way for the site of extensive works and
| the strong probability j. that another
| twelve months will So" notable increase
| in this feature of tho ci,y~ Prosperity
wArFl. POWER UTILISED.
| A very notable fact ia Eichmond'4 present
| and future daveloumen, i the advantage
| hat recently ha- been taken of he superb
! water p,wrr which FOR YEAR has lain COM
narativalv idl. right at the citv', doors.
| 4 company nstrized uLd.r the narp.
| of the Virginia Elnc,rir Railway and De-
| vplupmnnt COMPANY has at last hsrr.serd
up d. james River and put i, 10 work
| Richmond l. situated AT the head Of tide
water ou the James about 100 miles from
| it, mouth and al the foot of the last fan
! of the stream over the rock, ON il, way
| down from the mountains. Wi.nin three
| miles abo,, We limit Of tho tidal ohb and
| and flow In. fail of the James y eighty
| fur feet and within nine mile. II il lIo
! ;,,t
Abov, this point the watershed Of the
| river i. Il go -uuare luile. With the larger
! Gail the stream j. cauabl. of producinp