The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-17

boro Is the centre. consumes vast guam
titles OF the raw material. for within
the helt-that is to say. within a hum
dred miles around Greensboro--there
are 337 cotton mills. tho capital in-
vested in which amounts to $133,S0O, 900.
give employment to nearly 10000 ope-
ratives. Truly this Is a cotton mill
centre. ard naturally 1t has become the
place where the mill men come for all
kinds Of supplies. not only the raw
material, but for machinery for the
operation of the mills. Naturally, too,
it Is the place for a large storage
warehouse. and that of j. r. Lutham
& Co. Is said to be the largest cotton
and Atlanta.
Sell All Over the N0rld.
There are three cation goods COM
mission houses located hero, and they
do an enormous business all over tho
civilized world. They arc the Cone EX-
port and Commission Company, who
represent twenty-five factories hand
ling their entire product and selling
all manner of cotton goods all over the
United States and Europe. The Hunter
manufacturing Company In like manner
handle the entire product Of nine large
mills. Both of theae concerns had mag
niticent displays at the Jamestown Elk
position, and both came away With gold
medals.
The Hudson Commission Company
handles the product OF four knit goods
factories, and, like the other two
houses named, sell both in this country
and Europe.
The finishing mills OF Coulter. Lowry
s. Co. is an immense establishment,
Which finishes the goods Of many cot
ton factories. They finish and ship
on an average fifteen carloads OF cotton
goods per day.
Closely allied in business way with
the cotton mills are two overall fac
tories. which do an imnianse business
and buy all of their deIli,ns rights here
in Greensboro
The Tobacco Interest.
Greensboro has long been a tobacco
market, and continues to do con-
siderable business in that line. Tho
two leaf tobacco warehouses sell about
100000 pounds Of the bright leaf an
nually, and tho three plug and smok-
ing tobacco factories turn out some
thing over 100000 pounds OF manu-
featured tobacco per year. Two large
cigar factories produce 20,000.O0O
cigars por year and employ about 400
operatives.
IHrce large nurseries, 4lue d Nall
LINDSAY Nursery Company, John A..
Young's nurseries and those of j. W..
Anthony, travel 200 statesmen and sell
goods In twenty-eigllt States.
Tho largest terra Gotta plant in the
South Is located here, to-wit, the Pos
mona Terra Gotta Company. Their
daily product OF drain tile and sewer
ripe amounts to FIVE carloads
Wood-WorkIn. Plants.
The twenty-three wood working
plants located In Greensboro consist Of
sash, door and blind factories. q plant
for the manufacture ofYporch columns.
one for Office and bank furniture, ~
furniture factory for the manufac-
turo OF bedroom suits and all manner
Of furniture, factory for turning out
wood fibre plaster, two wagon and
buggy factories, two bobbin and shut
tie block factories. several barrel and
box factories and numcrOua planning
mills, etc. These WOODWORKING eatap-
lishments turn out $2,50o,000 worth of
goods per year. and employ not less
than q thousand people.
Workers In Iron. 4
The sixteen iron-working plants do
business which agEregates SS.h0Q,0O0
per annum, and as they all employ
skilled labor pretty much altogether.
lhe'r na"-rplls are something inlmen'sc.
These plants consist o. stove works.
three general foundrIes, one snWmill