The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-15
NEW ENTERPRISE
FOR RICHMOND
Blower and Manufacture
ing Company Incorporated and
Now Ready for Business.

A charter was granted last week by
the Corporation Commission to the Vir-
ginia Blower and Manufacturing Com
pany, Incorporated, with authorized
capital stock of $4,000. the principal
offices to be in this city.
Mr. w. Pernet Patterson is president
and treasurer; Mr.. a. j. Leitch is sec
rotary and general manager, and Mr..
Il. A. Patterson is director Of the
company.
The company will manufacture and
install blowers and blow-pipe systems
for planning and woodworking plants.
cotton and ginning establishments. tam
neries and tobacco factories, besides
manufacturing plants In other lines.
1t will also manufacture cornices, gut
tiers and steel tanks.
Few and Far Between.
There are only four plants of the
kind in the whole country, and as they
are either in the far West or North,
this company will have q great adj
vantage for all the Southern trade. and
the repair and improvement work alone
| in the lines to be installed and manu-
featured will count up into the thou-
sands.
The company already has contracts
Ito equip several large manufacturing
plants with a blow-pipe system and
system of conveyors. and are now
making arrangements to build and
Ieuuip large plant in Richmond. The
plans for the plant have been drawn,
| and as soon as these can be passed
|upon by the building inspector, the
contract will be let and work COM
menced at once, as the location has
been selected and contract closed for 1t,
The company will give employment.
lat once to fifty or sixty skilled work.
men, and their number will be Increase
from time to time.
4 Mr.. w. Pernet Patterson, the presi-
ldent of the company, Is the youngest
denti#of the Savings Bank of Rich
lmond. Mr.. Pernc. Patterson was edu-
Gated in the W Nj. I. and Cornell Uni
versity as q mechanical engineer, and
has had several years experience in
Ills line, which fact goes great WAY
to assure the success of the enter
prise.
Mr.. A. j. loitch. the general man.
oger Of tho company, Is y Vlrginiar
by birth. and while he has always made
/ Richmond his home. he has Travelled al
4 over the South during the past twelve
Years as general superintendent of the
i largest blow-pipe manufacturing con.
4 Germ in the country. Mr.. Leltch Is wei
land favorably known to all the large
companies III the whole
j South, with many Of whom he has
done large amounts of business.
Good Thing for Richmond.
4 Tho Virginia blower and Manufac
Turing Company will mean a, good, sub
4 stantial enterprise added to Rlchmond'
llong list, and will save large sums O
money to local concerns. In whose
lplants the blow-pipe systems cost from
A $4,000, to $4,000 to equip, and which
a up to this time have had to depend OF
!. 1.-the Northern concerns for any repair
+ or additions.
!. Philadelphia is the nearest cit.
Y manufacturing cutters and down
n spouts. .and the use OF steel tanks i
Undressing every year now over woodel
u tanks. After a short period the Wiz
\ glnia Blower and Manufacturing Com
u pany will give employment TO severa
.ttlundred skilled employees.
\ Tie company was organized by MI
I'M. III. Mercer. - s y MS