The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-01
Small Tobacco Markets Alone
Report Diminution Of Business
I Because Crops Are Not Sold.
MANY NEW ENTERPRISES
HAVE BEEN PUT ON FOOT
The Cities Have Made Long
Strides in the Direction OF
Manufacturing, Norfolk and
Lynchburg Being Par
III ticularly Fortunate il
D Number Of Enterprises.
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s SI,YNCuBURG, VA, Dec. 31.--'rhe past
Wear has been for Lynchb,rg, one OF
4 steady progress and suro prosperity. IN
s nil probability tho city has never known
& a season of more certain growth. Prac-
* 4ically. there has not been q single assign
Il r,ent, and so far as known, there is NOT
4 single store or business house IN Lynch
Il burg that is not now getting along nee
tiy,while many Of them are pushing aheaa
with remarkable success,
N One OF the most gratifying phases Of
Lynchburg's development is in the man
ufact1re Of shoes AS an experiment. two
wholesale shoe houses a year or two ago
began the manufacture of shoes, erecting
X Tor the purpose two Immense factory
a buildings. The experiment has gone far
enough to show that they are going to
prove tremendously successful, SO much
a so that It is now foregone conclusion
that other factories OF the Same kind
will be started here before many days AS
a shoe market, Lynchburg is going right
ahead with every prospect of becoming
che of the greatest shoe markets of the
country.
zf Lynchburg holds her own most salts
\ factorily as tobacco market. The sale
of leaf In the warehouses Is on an aver,
age about the same that 1t has been for
\ G great many years. While the absorption
a by great corporations OF the smaller to-
@bacco factories has in the past twenty
years closed up u number Of tobacco man
establishments in the city, the
development OF the leaf market and the
" location here OF two Immense plants have
perhaps fully cuunterbalanced the loss.
\ One Of these plants is the cigar factory
O: the American Cigar Company, branch
A OF the American Tobacco Company. At
first the company purchased the factory
y of N. r. Bowman 4 Co., one of the largest
buildings here, but the increase of their
bushes was such that recently they were
Il compelled to secure more space, and they
8 have leased the big factory building form
a erly used by the Dental Snuff Company.
The other plant Is that Of the Universal
Tobacco Company and the Common
wealth Tobacco Company. They have Sc
cured one of the largest factory build
ings in the city and recently they rented
the building that was occupied by the
wholesale drug house of Payne. Seay 6
Anderson. Mr.. Robert j. Snead Is gene
" raj manager of the plant. The factory is
fitted UP with a most expensive and cla-
N torate assortment of machinery, and
Il Juggling by the hustle and hustle that Is
seen In every department, the enterprise
Z has before It magnificent future.
Il Hancock Bros. & Co., recently erected
large addition to their factory De-
spite strenuous competition and the eff
4, feet OF corporate combinations. this con-
q Germ has more than held its own, and II
"a is turning out brands Of tobacco that
\ have world wide reputation. There are
* other well.known tobacco plants here and
N there Is not one Of them that Is not pros
Il pering.
Lynchburg, however. does not rely upon
any one branch of industry for its growth.
II In addition to shoes and tobacco, it has
several splendid manufactures where
great quantities of buggies and wagons
81 and vehicles of all kinds are turned out
sa y There Is the Glamorgan Pipe and Foun-
IL, dry Company. an enterprise that stands
In the front rank. and now 1t has zeal
4 GUS rival In the Lynchburg Foundry Com
/ pany, which is under the management oil
"a Mr.. Fl. Z. McWane and which is win.
III ming many laurcls. The Lynclburg Cot
ton Mil. the Lynchburg Paper Box Com
Il rany. the Lynchburg Hosiery Company
u several planning mills the Randolph Ma
con Womans College, the Piedmont Bus
iress College, the Virginia Christian Col
i-, lege, the bark mills OF John III. Head 4
81 Co.. several barytes mills, several hou
IA mills, the Stamford Dye Works. o score
or more of wholesale grocery houses, sew
eral wholesale notion houses. wholesale
clothing, wholesale hats and gloves
& wholesale liquor houses, Lynchburg 30.
Factory, the gas and electric plants o
n the Lynchburg Traction and Light Com
rany and many other enterprises are il
& flourishing condition,
" 81 Taken altogether Lynchburg has ever
reason to feel gratlfed at the record o
$ 1903 and the city is fully justified in look
y Ing forward TO 1904 with the assuranc
of even greater prosperity.