The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-18

systems. Richmond is at present three
hours and five minutes by rail from
Washington, four hours and ten min
utes from Baltimore, six hours and
3threc-quarters from philadelphia, nine
hours from New York. sixteen and
three Quarter hours from Boston,
twelve and a half hours from Pitts
burg, and nineteen hours and a half
from Buffalo, and when the double
track to Washington and the Wash
ington Union Station is completed, the
time to the points above named will
probably be shortened. TO Cincinnati
the time from Richmond is nineteen
hours. and to Chicago twenty and n
half hours. Eighty passenger trains en-
ter and leave the city every day, six,
and in some seasons eight, direct ex-
press trains run daily in both directions
between Richmond and New York.
One of the finest inter-urban5 trolley
lines In the United States reaches Fe-,
tersburg. twenty three miles south, cars
leaving terminals every hour The
Richmond and Chesapeake Bay Electric
Railway. now under construction, will
tap what is known as the Northern
Neck of Virginia, one OF the richest
trucking sections of the world and will
soon be in operation between Richmond
and the suburban city Of Ashland six.
teen miles distant. The Underwater and
Western, which now operates between
Bermuda Hundred on James River to
Farmville. swill shortly be extended to
Lynchhurg 7 and Richmond, making n a
short route between these cities.@I, the
James River is navigable from Rich
nond to the sea Two steamboat com
panies--the Old Dominion and the Vir-
ginia Navigation Company--as we'll as
| the rail lines connect at Norfolk and
Newport News with coastwise and
| ocean-going steamers, affordng ira ns-
| portaton facilities to all parts OF the
| world
Great Industries.
The tobacco industry in all its
| branches is the leading one in Rich
nlond. for the city furnishes more cap
| ital to handle the crop than all tho
other markets combined. The sales
! annually amount to more than Co.,
100000 pounds, and the storage capacity
OF the various warehouses is 5000.
! hogsheads.
1 The tobacco interests represent an
Investment of about s7.5oOO00, and the
1 production is svalued AZ over S2O.000,000
giving employment to Bupward.s of 0.OOt
men and women. NJ III
i I'M Next in Importance are the iron and
j kindred industries, employing, Tas i they
4 do, nearly 10000 operatives, with ar
y
!. They. vary from locomotives to dror
1 forgings. Third In value Of plants ane
Of output Is the manufacture Of fertil
iZers, this city being headquarters o
the largest fertilizer concern In TIL,
world. AS a manufacturing centre, i
!. enjoys the distinction of having tn,
Il largest wooden ware plant In the world
the largest baking-powder factory il
the country, of being the largest cen
) tra fn,~ ft,n ,,fo ~, F<,f -
!. paper of having a world-renowne,
H meat-juice factory. and the lprges
publishing house in the South. All o
!. these specialties, as well as the volum
: and quality Of It's manufactures Of foo
products, packing-house products
beer, flavoring extracts, drugs. an
) medicines, wood and paper boxes
q leather goods. trunks. saddery an
harness. building materials, printing
: and boots and shoes, give it specia
prominence.
e What II Offers.
I. Careful investigation" says tn
: Chamber Of Commerce in recent pub
O lication, will result in conviction tina
e since manufacturing in the South q
d large is practically in It's Infancy, n
c other section of the country offers tn
a prospective manufacturer so many in
stI viting opportunities; and, withits or
IS cellent railway facilities, with !,
o good system OF rail and waite
/. Of the country, with its super
It climatic conditions, with its proximit
d to an unlimited supply Of raw ,l,Gtt
It rails and with It's reputation alread
Is established as a successful manufat
lie turing point, no other city in tt
ir South offers so many circumstance
II that combine to make success easy Il
st dts own manufacturers as does Ricl
he mond. This latter statement is effc'
d lively confirmed by the unusual succe'
d !, of Richmond's two hundred and fif,
le factories now in operation, and a nun
10. Der of smaller, but growing industries