The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-29
1t is an Immense Bust.
ness Involving Mill 4 II;
lions Of Dollars. u
AS I'M OTHER LINES,
RICHMOND GATEWAY
More Than "a Twenty Thousand
Head of5stocks Sold Here An "a
nuallyStoH Be Hitched e.
s.53 PloWs and Wagons
$s5s$ on Southern
Farms. a

L IS. q. 55 81 .sS5s
Many articles have appeared In this
section OF II The Times Dispa tch tending
to show BY the facts a s they are found
that Richmond is the true, the original
and the only commercial e teway to the
peting freight rates, and the pita I tina ~
Is ever ready and handy to move any
and all kinds Of business, combine y to-
make VT the real gateway. E Xxx sS
p In no way perhaps, Is this fact more
forcbly demonstrate ted Y than Inv the linz
mense amount pital used here In the
horse and mule business. N r edmond has
and mules, not only for tho state Ct
Virginia, but fora argeS section Of the
South outside Of Virginia. But few PEG
pie hereabouts are aware Of IT, but the
fact is that largely more than hall Of
the horses and mules that pull he
3plows In the corn fields and on he to
3bacco& hills, and inS the ton fields. Of
and South lima are dis trlbu ted lin
that territory from the& ga 10 and auctionsN
stables I'M this city, and the5 horse and "
mule business OF richmond N has III been
growing from year TO year and 4 season
to season until now II runs away up into
the millions, and is still growing S5|sSS
Superb Facilities Here.
Nj "A great deal OF money has been ex-4
pended IN the erection OF the y ecessaryi5
stables. yards, etc., for the tran sact lon
OF this business, t8untl E the facil tiles fog
three million donars have chn nged a hands
here within the pas & twel We mon his inSS
the buying and selling OF horses and
mules, and changed hands twice. s5JJs
II Farmers and horse-trader and IA mule
dealers come to Richmond from all over
Virginia especial " In the section ], say
from Charl ottesytlle to the sea sh ore---tos
on Virginia farms, 4 a they come % lso from
North Carolina and south Carol Ina. and
from the northern sections q Georgia.
points that are rea ched by the Southe rn.ss
iSeaboard Air Line and 3Si Atlantic Goa s.
Line Raj wa vs.. i5S55 If5
The proprietors OF the Richmond lex ~
change and Sale Stables get their s took
all over the West and So Invest The The
Kentucky, II Missouri, Illinois. Indiana
Ohio ana West Pennsyl breeding
farms ship to this city in trail nload lots, ~
and from September to K Christina 9, & and
from January to the last OF Tune II, each
year, the horse Eand mu 10 bushes = q IN
Richmond is being trans tied VIII 20
5vigor that many Richmond people Know Know
not Of. S58 is, 5Si. az 545 $ys ssas
4 Millions in I
ii According to figures gathered, by3f%aSS
Times Dispatch ma n. no less than twenty
thousand head Of horses and mules have
been sold 4 In + the exchange and sale
stables Of this city within the last twelve
1 months Among these there have been
many fine horses, trotters jumpers, hunt-
ers and superb sad dlers to change hands,
horses that brought all the wa " from
$500 to 81, 500 EACH hut Richmond 8 main
hold on the horse III and mule "a pusl-#
ness Is in supplying farm Y. stocK8
horses that avera ged 500 TO slbo J. per-
head, and young mules that sell from
$50 10 $3.50 each, There Is not a. day IN
the season OF each year, from Sept
to December and from, say, the lot Oh
January to the last Of June. that there
are not horse and mule dealers here from
ali parts Of Virginia, North Carolina and
South Carolina to buy stock Tor the
farms Of those States. They buy ~ car-s
load and tranload lots. AS q after Of
course freight rates cut a great figure
4 In the horse and mule business. and ono
reason, Indeed the principe reason Why
Richmond has such an enormous horse
md mule trade Is because the dealers
here get the hest rates to Rlchmond When
they buy, and from Richmond when
they resell the stock to the States and
territory to the south Of r richmond M
The Big Estab lishnents.
The IS, p. Clay Horse and Mule Cons
pany, wi tn immense 5sta bles at Nineteenth
and Franklin Streets. have done as much
horse business OF Richmond Mr.. 8, "a
Clay. who Is the sole proprietor Of TINS
business, has been engaged In y FOR g.
number OF years but this year he has
enlarged the business and his Facilities
for Its transaction, until now his estap-
lishment at the corner OF Nlneteehtn
and Franklin Is the biggest establ lshment
of its kind In the South OUTSIDE oI
Kentucky,
Il The Richmond Horse Bazaar, OF which
Joseph I.assiter is the proprietor also
does an immense business In the handling
of horses and mules for virginia ana
the South The bazaar has auction sales
OF horses and mules every WEDNESDAY
and Saturday In the yard, and horse
auction az the bazaar y somet,l,esTT,'.S's.
times, In faet-as good a show as -
circus, The sule that took place there
Yesterday was we'll worth attending, ana
rhis is the dull season. too, M
An Old-Tinler. ..l
Peter paul Is one OF the oldest horse
dealers In the city His place ls on
Fifteenth Street between Main and
Franklin, Within the past few years ne
has confined his business strictly 20 aeal-@
Ing in mules. He buys altogether y
Kentucky, and sells almost ehtlIeH ~
Virginia and North Carolina Farmers
There are very fen, farms In e,Sher
state that have not first or last, been
plowed by mules that came from P !'fe
I'd, N. cawthorne. whose place is on
FRANKLIN street, between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth. handles both mules ana ho Ises.
49, ~, !. erot {. /. HIS stock mainly from