The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-30

Branch, showed by it's last report to
the Corporation Commission ia capital
OF $4,000; surplus. $4,000; undivided
profits. $500; interest reserve, $3,225i
deposits, s2aS.705; real estate and
buildings, S2G,700: loans and discounts,
s314.25o MIR. TheodoriclS u. Roberts,.
a prominent tobacconist. and all-round
business nan,tis the president Of this
bank. The cashiers. arc Norman Fl. Will
brakes Branch,t, and w. w. Wright
South Hin. Mr.. fiji. r.. Cooley is the
assistant cashiert here.
Yountsest of 81.
The First State lBank is the youngest
of the three. Mr.. George A, tEndly. the
founder of Chascs City, Isl the presi-
dent of this baniS,Ss Mr.. Q. IL. Boyd is
son is cashier Thei bank maintains n
branch. or twin bink, at aCiarksville,
which is presided over by; Mr.. A. w.
Niece, vlce-presideiat. andSO. A. Boyd.
cashier. An Office ifs ALSO maintained
at Red Oak, an extensive trading point
Mr.. b. d. Adams. The paid-up capi-
tai of the State Bank is $4,000; de-
posits, $4,000; loalss, 100000. The
total assets foot up S155,00O.
The banks furnish money for the
business enterprise OF the community,
and while they are coulservatively man
aged, they believe in Calllse City and
opment of these are the points aimed
q. they are liberal, with money.
Tobacco sI:nerest
Chase City is tobacco market: it
could not help from being, situated as
1t is in such r!ch9 tobacco growing
section. The three. leaf tobacco ware
houses sell three sand a half million
rounds OF leaf perf.ear. The American
Tobacco Company ithe Imperial Com
pany' and the r. j., Reynolds Tobacco
Company have large prizeries here,
and keep buyers on ,the market all the
(; year. There are several Independent
4 buyers also. all of whom handle the
weed inN the latest as:,d most approved
manner, their factories being equipped
with&steam and call the necessary dry
ing aud curing apparatus.
The Roberts Tobacco Company manu-
Afacture: smoking and plug tobaccosg that
/ HAYES favorable regulations in the mar
( kcts of the South, This is o we'll
equippedifactory,. employing sufficient
force of hands. The payroll of fthe
labor force amounts to $500 per
month.
Other industries lhere employ many
hands, and have iuAthe aggregate pay
rolls that run up INTO the thousands
per week, and tilusSturn loose a great
deal of !A6Tssr,.1hat afinds its way into
the stc.tes'nl1d shops, ofethe town.
Immcnse Wagon Factory.
The Chase ,City Manufacturing Com
!. pany, manufacturers of high-class
4 wagons, doess businessSin every State
ir the Union.
This wagon making business was
established here fourteen years ago by
Lucus Gregory 1t commenced in q
small way. but. Mr., Gregory made good
farm wagons. He could not afford tc
do otherwise, for lie named his vehicles
Gregory and to-day the tr'Gregory'
wagon tlrds customers in forty siS
States, and, not q few of THEM are
shipped 10 South AnSerical to Cuba
and to England. THE company also
manufactures logh trucks on specia
order. and in thissfiu,nber ,st,ction the,
get as many orders as thGy care t.
fill Mr.. Gregory is the president o
the company. and Mr. john Wesle,
Swift Is the vice. pTesidont,. FIR. Georg
r. Land IS secretary and treasurer, an,
Mr.. Z. S. Emory is general manager
The company is Incorporated with
capital OF $4,000, and has "a surplus o
$4,000, Ono hundred andV twenty fiv
men are employed in the factory, NOR
than half of whom are expert work
men. The payroll VTuns over $4,000
per year.
Much Lumber consumed.
The annual outlay for Mecllenbur
county lumber TO be conWerted int
'J.wagons IN this factory Is tsomethin
loyer 100000. and lumber purchase
in other sections foo1s up about 5000
600. The company usas about 400 tor
Of steel per year.
While the Gregory wagons are so
all over the country and in foreig
,parts the principal trade is in II
Southern and Southwestern States
IS rare that less than u carload i
leaves the depot here for any give
Hpoint.
The company's plant covers n lari
space of ground on the outskirts
the town and is equipped with Il
best Of modern machinery. on II
hills surrounding tho plant is a pictr
RESCUE village or cosy cottages,