The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-03
Leads All the Southern
Wholesale Markets In
Sale Of Provisions
ANNUAL SHIPMENTS
WORTH TEN MILLIONS
Great Packing Concerns Of the
West Had to Come to the
Real Gateway to Be
in Reach Of the
Southern
Trade.

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The advantages Richmond enjoys by
It's geographical position. and by us
superb railway facilities are in two ways
more strongly emphasized than in the
wonderful growth OF the packing anu
provision business here.
Some years ago a number OF the great
packing establishments Of the country
commenced to invade the South with
their goods. Klngan & Company wanted
to get we'll into the South. but their
great warehouses in Indianapolis were
too far from base. Armour & Company
also saw tremendous business In the
South and Southeast, but Chicago was
long way off. Swif, & Company were
9 in the same fix and were confronted By
the same difficulties. They coulA not
make the mountain go TO them ana they
simply did the wise thing by coming
to the mo11tain. They had to estab-
lish big plants in TIE South, and when
they commrrbEl 70 invet,tigate they
cause OF It's rhilway facilities and other
Observation-Disclosures in the way OF
banking, available sites ETC., Richmond
was pre-emlnently the gateway to the
South. and from great warehouses and
packing establishments here they could
EeacH any part OF the south Win thtit
goods in a way that they could not
reach It from any other point.
The result OF this investigation was
I that these great Western concerns and
others, bought property in Richmond
and erected here depots from which to
distribute their products all over the
South.
Richmond CapitalSin It.
Others followed, and In the meantime.
local enterprise and local capital were
not Idle. Richmond men sa that be.
& cause OF Richmond's superb advantages
there was money In the packing and
provision business here. and there are
to-day Sno stronger or more energetic
concerns In the country than w. S..
forbes & Company, L. NJ, Perkins &
Company. the E, E. Patrick-Young COM
pany. These with the branch establish
ments OF the great Western concerns
ship from Richmond to all parts OF the
South ten million dollars worth OF pro-
visions per year. and the business Is
growing and becoming more extensive
4 every day. The packing houses now do
Ing strictly wholesale business in this
city are ". s. Forbes & Company, 70
NJ. Perkins & Company, F. F., Patrick
Young Company. schwartschlld & sulz-
berger, K,ngan & Company Armour
& Company. Swift & Company,
and the National Packing Company.
These concerns are enabled to do
business OF ten million dollars annual
3 " because Richmond enjoys the bene.
1T of the Combined treish. rate.
Glorious Old James River.
Large shippers OF heavy goods b will
understand what the Combined" rate
is, how It comes a bout md what advan-
tage It gives Richmond over competa-.
tive trade centers and so-called gate
ways to the South. A lengthy essay
on the combined" would not more full
~ explain 1t TO the INITIATED than TO
simply say 1t puts Richmond on an
equal footing. as to freight rates, with
i Chicago New York, Boston, Toledo. Buff
falo, or any other city that has water
enough to float big steamboats, In other
words. old James River muddy and
murky as It sometimes gets makes
Richmond the real. the only true gate
way to the South, commercially speak
j ing.
The great packing houses OF the coun-
try found this out. and that Is why they
established the largest and most ex-
tensive branches they have anywhere
In the country, away from the parent
houses, and that ia why they, together
with the other houses established ny
local enterprise and capital, have dono
and are doing the biggest meat
and and provision business that is
South In brief, Richmond is provision
headquarters for all the South. as it is
the shoe and Try goods and grocery
headquarters for all the South.
The packing and provision business
7 has grown ur here from small begin
nings. Forbes & Company, Perkins &
Company and the Patrick-Young Com
pany, the concerns that were started
with local capital. commenced at the
bottom and by energy ara push have
built up business that = wond err.
These three concerns do nearly half
the provision business done from Rich
mond and It is fact known OF all
amount OF patriotic energy into their
business.
They believe in Richmond, and no
men IN the community do more In a
business way and In other ways to
keep Richmond in the commercial fore
front than they. s
Business in Harmony,
The packing establishments in Rich
mond are within themselves something
OF wonder to the uniniliated, They
work harnlonlously, all seeming to be
bent on making Richmond the great
est provision center in the country. and
to that end they help aid and assist
each other. None Of Tho establish.
ments do the whole thing. hut each has |
us specihlly, ana altosether they can |
do anything and everything known to
the provision line of business, For IN
stance, do you want fresh beef on cold |
storage or fresh from the slaughter pen.
or do you want a Smthfleld ham two
years old and as delicious MS IT, 1t had
spent all that two years in Southampton
county. or do you want sausage or lard
or anything else?
Maybe you could NOT get all at one
and the same time a once place. but |
there is no article known to the pack