The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-07
at that time had a capacity Of two

at that time had capacity OF two
cars per week.
The Nansemond Peanut Company
next located in Suffolk. followed by
Lummis g. CO., the Bain Peanut Com
pany, Pope Peanut Company. McConky
Peanut Company and the Columbian
Peanut Company The factory for
merly used by the Nansemond Peanut
Company is now operated by the
Standard Peanut Company. Another
large factory is now in course Of con-
struction by the Ewaltney- Balm inter-
ests, which is 1oox120 feet, FIVE stories
in height, with floor space of 10000
square feet.
There are twenty-five peanut fac
tories in Virginia, and the value OF the
product shipped by them per annun,
will approximate s1o.ooo,ooo.
A Comparison or Two.
OF the twenty-five factories in Vir-
ginia eight are located in Suffolk. No
other peanut shipping point has as
many or as large factories. and this
makes Suffolk the largest shipping
point of peanuts in the world. These
nuts are shipped into every town and
city OF consequence in the United
States and Canada, and some are ex-
pcrtAd direct to Germany and Francs.
Between 1000 and 1900 hands are
employed by the peanut industry in
Suffolk and the weekly payroll is in
the neighborhood of $4,000.
The Suffolk Peanut Company, oper-
ating at It's full capacity, will employ
175 women and IS men. A freight
train eight miles long, each car filled
to its capacity with peanuts, will give
the reader an idea Of the peanuts
shipped last year by the Suffolk Pea
nut Company.
The Suffolk Peanut Company's fac
tory has floor space Of 1920 square
feet, and the warehouses contain 2O,-
900 square feet. The buildings, ware
houses and tracks cover four acres of
ground. This, mind You, is but one Of
eight
The factories are now paying 4 1-2
to s cents per pound for nuts as they
come from the farmers. For the last
five years the price for farmers goods
has practically remained the same.
This has greatly enriched the farmers,
as fair profit can be realized on pea
nuts If they can-b be marketed for as
much as Ia cents per pound. These
good prices will probably, keep UP for
years unless lowered by a general de-
preston, as the area In which perfec-
ton In peanut raising in the United
States is SO small, the peanut belt
proper embracing only ten counties in
Northeastern Carolina and Southeast
ern Virginia, and the demand incrcas-
Ing so rapidly that there Is small
chance Of an overproduction.
The seven factories now in active
operation employ about 1900 hnnds,
cover a floor space OF $4,000 squar.
feet, havo additional warehouse space
Of 1876, 1000 square feet and ship about
4,O0C carloads Of peanuts per year, VAL
ued at not less than $500 per car. The
now factory above mentioned, which
by the way. will be tho biggest pea
nut factory in the world, will increase
all of these figures fully / per cent
Now II any other town can show larger
peanut figures let them come along
with the same.
Lumber ana Other interests.
But peanuts and the mercantile bust
ness are not all of 6uffolk's enter
prises Far from 1t. The lumber and
general manufacturing business here
is Immense, but may be summed VI
briefly,
The Alfred B. Cramer Company, in
corporated, are dealers In rough anG
dressed lumber. 100000 feet of which
| they ship to Northern points annually
They ship mostly by sailing vessels
The Virginia Manufacturing Com.
pany are extensive makers OF trucl
and fruit baskets, which they ship al
over the South. doing an immense
business with trucking and fruit grow
ing in Florida Tho Nnnsemond Trucl
Packing Company, which employs /:
hundred hands, is. engaged in the SAM
i line of business, supplying the truck
ers all over this section with basket
and barrels.
The Standard Manufacturing Com
4 pAny, which has a forty thousand dol
lar plant and employs seventy five t
one hundred hacss, makes all name
OF packing boxes. They get their sup
ply of lumber from the Dismal Swan
country. The John A. Gum Manufac
hands, does the same kind Of bushes.
The Suffolk Lumber Company, wit
its splendid planning mill, the Suffol
Woodworking Company the Brink
ley Lumber Company, and j. B. Phil
hover & Son, do extensive business !
all manner of woodworking and ar
immense consumers OF lumber. Thei
I plants are strictly up to date and man
> hands are employed.
:, In addition to tho above lumber cor
l Germs there are four Wholesale lumbe
=
: pany, the Nnnsemond Lumber Con
] pany. the Gates County Lumber Con
s pany and the Seaboard Manufacturer
@ Company. The business done by the;
J concerns in r year runs away up
tho millions.
! iron and Drass Works.
! Two grist mills, Barton q Jeifre
y and W. A, Waters, do splendid bus
g ness and have flrst-class plants. ri
I former ship their product all throus
Eastern Virginia and North Carolin
The latter does a local business.
iron works and foundries Suffolk do
a good business. The ], IL. Maclenl
Machine and Locomotive Works Ell
ploys forty to fifty high-cla
mechanics and makes a speciality
railroad repair work Tho Union Ir
Works. with considerable force
a similar business Tho Suffolk II
and Brass Foundry 10 also Il busy GO
corn.
Il Harrell Sc Tyler have n large Dnrhi