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

which the families OF the workmen
live.
The Hub, Spoke and Lumber Com
pany, OF which Il. S. Emory Is presi-
dent, and Il. S. Heidlebaugh IS vice.
president, are immense consumers of
lumber, and SO far they find the wagon
factory q customer for ell of the hubs
and spokes they make. They are man
ufacturers OF slaves also, which are
shipped to various markets, and cities
nearby along the limo of the Southern
Railway and its branches are custom
ers for their dressed lumber. This
concern employs many hands, and their
of q year,
furniture nnd Lumber
The Chase City Furniture Company
is an establishment that has had its
ups and downs, but Is now in a pros
porous condition. 1t is owned largely
by the furniture company OF Mt. Airy
N. c., and Is really branch of that
largo establishnent. However. a. con-
siderable block of the preferred stock
anout $4,000 is held in Chase City.
The furniture factory makes bedroom
furniture of all kinds, and ships all
over the country. A large number of
hands are employed and their plant is
we'll equipped With the latest machin-
cry.
Tho Ilcrshaw Manufacturing Com
pany is one of Chase Citys pet en-
terprises. They are immense consume
ers of Mecklenburg county lumber,
and convert Athe4rnw material into
slaves and all manner of handles. They
also rpn lar9egplaning mills and pre-
pare timber for building purposes for
nearby markets. The dressed lumber
Ii shipped to neighboring cities, but
the slaves and the handles they turn
out. go all over the North and West,
and first and last the KersNaw COM
| pany brings to Chase City a great
deal of outside money. They employ
year round. and their payroll amounts
to nearly thousand dollars per
! month.
New Enterprises.
! ThetChase City Canning Company Is
a new concern that has just started up,
| with ample capital to make q great
business 1t is controlled by local cap
ital and Is headed by energetic men
who know no such word as fail. The
4 company has erected a splendid fac
/ tory and equipped it withNmachinery
i at a cost of $4,000. They will can all
/ kinds OF fruits. tomatoes, sugar-corn
1 snap-beans and anything else that is
4 cannable, and that the thrifty farm
ers in tho surrounding section will
raise for the purpose. The farmers
say 1t is Just the kind OF establishment,
they have been wanting here for lo
these many years, and they Will be
sure to keep it well supplied with the
! raw material in the canning season
The canning factory is expected tc
distribute great doal of money where
/ it is most needed, and will be the
means of causing farmers in this sec
ton to diversity crops more than they
ever have before.
The Chase City Machine Company
is also q new establishment that II
time will doubtless grow into grea
concern. The leading business to be
I-undertaken by this company is the es.
adjustment and building of acetylent
gas plants. but they do all kinds OF
plumbing work, and the running OF ga!
and water pipes is their specially.
Heavy Mercantile business.
Great and small. there are between
forty-iive and fifty mercantile estab
!, lishments in Chase City. and some O
: tho stores are handsome brick struc
, lures. well filed with goods suitable
for the trade. They are all retail es
= adjustments, but some OF them sci
a goods In such large quantities the!
: might easily be considered wholesalers
O All the merchants seem to. be prosper
: i ing. They have splendid back coun
try to support them, and their custom
ers are well-to-do people, who max
6 money and do not mind spending It TO
o what they want The Chase CIT,
& stores can furnish anything anybod,
d can possibly want
. Educational Advantages.
Tho public school of the town is a
q up-to-date establishment, with all IN
n departments OF the graded schoo, an
10 lln plbH SCHOOL, we'll pnaua5 A