The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-27
RICHMOND AND tn
PAPER INDUSTRY
One Of Leading Enter.
priSeS That is But
Little Known.
At HEAD OF LIST
AS PAPER MAKER(
Such is Richrnond's Positioni
Among Cities Of the World. i,
Biggest Blotting Paper II
Mills on Earth Are sIS
Right in This EI
Town.

It has been truly said that half % I
Richmond does not know what the otheH, ii
half Is doing. One might 20 further andA
say that In some respects ninety per cent. M
OF Richmond Is unaware of the imn,cns u NJ
out-of-town business this city does. sssSlIH
AT the recent banquet given by$sthei@
Chamber OF Commerce. one OF the speaks III
ers referred to the mammoth proportions4s
or the paper Industry In this city, and i@
not q few Of his hearers really thought Nj
he vas talking through his hat" when IL.
he stated that the number OF workmen h
employed In the making Of paper and lT
Kindred occupations in and about thisi1
city Is about 1900, and that something Il
like three and a half million dollars are II
annually handled in the paper-makng}
business. E8SE.i
The speaker was not talking throughA
his hat" but 1t is not surprising thaH3
many of his hearers thought so, forslu H
the nature of the case this paper-mak inEd
business, Is but little known Of locally.d
but 1t Is here all the same. The pro-J
ducts Of the Richmond and Manchesteri L
paper mills Is sold almost entirely out IL
OF Richmond. the whole earth being IT'S
trade territory. ST s|.
Tho Standard Paper Manufacturing Il
Company, with mills In Manchester ana III
offices In Richmond, is the largest cons Is
SSAH " Tvs 9>llu tIlS PWOrlQ. InlS &GSsfS
tabllshment confines itself to the man. ~
ufacture Of blotting paper
Think of It; mill with hundreds of
hands busy from early morn to dewey @
eve three hundred and thirteen days In #
the year doing nothing except making
plotting paper. Mr.. j. D. Crump, tie
general manager OF this factory, tells Il
Times Dispatch man that this wonder-
ful business has grown from the ground -
up within the past fifteen years. It start
ed from nothing. It may be said. but in II
decade and a half it has encompassed y
the earth and now the product Of tlies
factory goes to every part Of the globe,
The Albemarle Paper Company also con. 4
fines Itself exclusively to the manufac II
ture OF plotting paper and sells 1t all Il
over the world. it, 5s5
The Richmond Paper Manufacturing ~
Company. with modern machinery ana
an p-to-date equipment generally, r1akes w
all sorts of paper from the plain news II:
sheet up to fine note. ,s4 S
The Wortendyke Manufacturing Com.
pany makes speciality Of toilet paper, n
bags and Irvine. 81
b The Manchester Paper and Irvine Com,
pany confines itself largely to chipboard.
box-board and similar products,
a Ihese concerns employ not less thar n
1000 hands, large majority Of whom 81
are skilled laborers who earn big money.
Their output Is in the nelghborhood Il &c w
ten million pounds OF paper Of one sort.
and and another per year. II one will take II
the trouble to consult the statistics pilt,.
ltshed by the Census Bureau It will be
found that In this line, Richmond il as
ahead and makes about sixty-five per
cent. of the blottlng paper used In the <
world. Not less than four million dol
lars worth OF stuff goes out from thesd
mills annually. taS6s;H
Other Kinds Of Paper.
very interesting fact in connections
with Richmonds paper business and one II
that is not generally known, is that the (,
factories IN this city and Manchester \
make the mntrx paper which Is used N Il
printing nearly two-thirds of the large /,
newspapers OF the United States. the
New York Herald, Journal Times, and
In fact, every daily paper in New York. =,
except the world, uses matrx paper whichd
is made In Richmond.
But Rchmond's paper business is not i
confined to the establishments named 1
above. The MISSIONER Paper Company does
a distinctive business combining tsele!
!, largely to the manufacture OF roofing tar1
paper. Its annual output Is more than
a half a million rolls, or thirty-ldd
million pounds, This concern is not con-.]
fined to Richmond, but has branch housesi
III various Southern and Western cities.
Other large concerns that are engaged K
In the paper business are the Eagle Paper
! Company. which manufactures bags ana i3
| wrapping paper; the Southern Paper
! Company. the Anderson-NNlson Paper
| Company, and the b. w. Wilson Paperh9
Company. all or whom handle immense B
! quantities OF fiat paper-that is to say
| writing paper. printing paper etc. n
] Altogether. the paper business OF Rich
| mond Is immense. in the handling OF
! which something like FIVE millions of 4
| dollars changes hands every year.
| II is a matter Of interest that the blot- Il
! ting paper makers have to go all over the
1, world in search OF the rags and other
| stock of which they make their goods. III,
They buy rags IN Italy. Germany, Sweden, IL
| England and In all the States OF the
| United States: have the same shipped to Z
Richmond, make It into paper and reship
it and soil 1t rs paper In all the regions u
| from whence 1t came.
Wonderful business Is this paper bust. II
ness, and as paper-makne town. Rich. n
mond stands very close TO the head OF
the column ~.
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