The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-08-30
VIRGINIA MANUFACTURES
IN SEPARATE Bull DING.

Showing the Products Of FsetO-
ries in This Staie-com-
missioner Whitehead
a. Work.
Norfolk. Va. Aug. 25.-Mr.
John Whitehead has been ap-
pointed special commissioner
for Virginia by the jamestown
Exposition Company 70 secure
the exhibits for the exposition
building which will be used ex-
clusively for Virginia manufac-
turers. This is one OF the most
important moves that the expo
sitiOn has taken 90 advertise
/ the State. Other exhibits by
manufacturers from all parts OF
the country viii be general
manufacturers building, while
M ae Virginia building there
viii be only goods produced IN
the Old Dominion.
10 rs proposed TO arrange the
exhibits from the various cities
M sections. SO that the visitors
viii have an opportunity Of se-
curing at glance those things
which are produced an various
manufacturing cities of the
Commonwealth The Virginia
manufacturers building will
have floor space Of about lOO.-
600 square feet. Ii is proposed
10 let this space 20 the manufac-
turers at moderate cost. Man
ufacturers who DO not reside in
/ Norfolk or vicinity. and do not
care 20 have the trouble of i'm
stalling their goods. can pack
them at their factories. load on
train, ship 90 the department Of
exhibits, jamestown Exposition
| Company. Norfolk. Va. and
the exposition company will re.
ccivc, pay cost of handling and
installation, and when the ex-
/ position closes will repack and
reship. For this service a charge
| VIII be made consistent with
the service performed.
To is not generally known
+ throughout the Union that Nir-
/ ginl0 us "a great manufacturing
/ state. with a very large variety
of articles produced. 10 is be-
leved that, If this building is
/ well filled. nothing connected
/ with the exposition will be Of
I greater benefit 60 the State ina
/ general
Visitors who are interested
I'M iron manufactures can have
an opportunity of seeing at a
| glance the articles produced In
"a certain city where iron manu-
/ facture pred0minates. This ap
plies 20 tobacco, cotton goods
and all other products.
There are more than 700 fac
tories IN Norfolk; possibly 800
IN Richmond; a large number
| IN Lynchburg, Danville, Peters
! burg, Roanoke, Staunton. Alex
/ andria and Newport News. Mr..
I w hitehead viii call on these
manufacturers and present the
plans for exhibiting the wares
| of this State, and it is hoped
that the various manufacturers
viii act promptly and sign their
contracts without delay, so that
the exposition company will
have information which will
enable them TO determine the
exact size of the building
needed
So far a number of manufac-
turers have been called on in
Tidewater Virginia, and with
out exception firms visited have
agreed TO cordially cooperate
with this new idea. The work
viii be pushed with the greatest
energy, and it is hoped by the
exposition company that by
. September they will have Sc
cured enough applications to
assure the greatest State ex-
hibit ever assembled at an ex.
: position held in this country
1t is fact, however, that this
is a peculiar feature of the
J a m s I o wn Exposition. Nc
other exposition has ever had q
> building set apart for the ad.
. vantageous display of the goods
/ of the State in which il was
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