The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-08-02
Chewing and Smoking Tobac.
co Make City Famous
on Pacific Slope.
PRIMITIVE OFFICE
FOR NAIL SERVICE
Nevada Mining Camp Utilized
Richmond Tobacco Boxes for
Post-Officc Until 1t Grew
to Be a City Worthy
Uncle Sans
Attention.
ny FRANK $. wooDsoN.

III FRANK s. WOODSOS.
"A week or two ago--maybe 1t vas a
month ngo--tilere appeared in The
Times Dispatch complaint from a
correspondence unjust complaint.
tbink-that Richmond does not toot It.
own horn sufficiently. II mistake
not this correspondent said Richmond
products were not we'll known more
| than hundred or so miles from Ri.h.
rnond. and he seemed to think that
some blame was attaciiabie to Rich
mond drummers.
| Just how he figures tina. out do
not know. Possibly lie has Travelled
farther from Richmond than have.
and 1t may be that his complaint of
too much modesty on the part OF repre-
isentatives of Richmond hustle In in Il
measure Just. Certainly I am rot in
| favor of ovetmuch modesty wnen It
coines to proelaiming the greatness OF
Richmond. OF course. / want our
boys to clirlg as nearly as possible
to tine truth. but l am sure they can
do that and yet tell wonderful stories
OF kiabmuntrs commercial greatness.
1t may be that there are enterprises
in this good town that are too modest,
tina: do not talk Richmond as loudly
as Baltimore drummers talk Baltimore
or az Atlanta boomers sound the
praises OF atlanta: but all the same. !
question the accuracy of the state
,,tent that Richmond is not known
abroad.
Tobacco Tin Sig:..
In my travels have been struck
with the advertising Importance. not
to say the numerousness of little tin
signs on every grocery store. every
drug store every hotel and every to
hacce and cigar stand. which tin signs
call the attention of the world 10 the
face that the best smoking and cnew :
ing tobacco the world ever saw is
made in Richmond. ] am not advar.
tising any brand of tobacco. or any
fl;iEY else. as for that matter. but j
would like to say right here In this
Iconnection that II all the other indus
tries In Richmond were as well adver-
ii sed as its tobacco interest. there
would he no ground whatever for the
complaint of the correspondent have
mentioned above.
In Far Away Nevada.
Away out in Nevada a year or more
ego come mining prospectors discov-
cred rich veins Of orc of one kind and
another and they commenced to work
the same. The mines were rich enough
and the result was that in the sport
space of a year a mining camp OF a
hundred swarthy men became a little
city OF 10000 inlantants. For some
reason, which | think needs expana-
ton. they named the camp Rawb'le,
ard that is now the na;',e of the city. !.
a mighty ugly name. but guess 1t
is all, right Anyhow If it suits the
people who live there it suits me. Raw
hide, as I understand 1t, was at the
foot of a mountain, and mile hence
there was n country road along witch
there was Il rural free delivery OF
mail Rawhide was not year ago
large enough to have post-ofiice. put
1t wanted to get Its mail. and so a
man named c. C. Dunning conceived
the idea OF establishing a little postal
service of his own. On the road about
a mile from Rawhide he established
year ago his little private post-ofhc CO.
He stuck post in the ground and on
the post he nailed up two tin boxes.
The larger of the boxes was to rer
cetye the mail for the miners at Raw
hide and the other was kept open to
receive any voluntary contributions of
cash that patrons OF the office We're
willing to allow DunninE for looking
after the mall for Rawhide.
A Richmond Product.
The box which served as a post
Office for Rawhide and the box which
served as "A receptacle for Dunnlns's
fee went out from Richmond tobacco
factory, and when they left here ahead
of the mail service they were filled with
Richmond-made tobacco, the larger Of
the two containing pound Of Pat
yterson's Seal and the smaller quarter
pound of Patterson's Lucky Strike. !.
Old man Dunning made pretty good
thing with his little private post-office,
and he pushed the business until the
United States government established
a. regular city post-office at Rawhide,
now mining town OF somcthing IKE
10000 inhabitants. The old man wanted
to preserve The original rost-office In
some way, and so when struggling
sphotng,sph man happened to pass
about three months ago along the foot
of the Sierra Nevada range the old
man had him take q picture Of Raw
hides original post office and the origi-
nal n,ailcarrier. He sent me one OF the
pictures, and as there is a pretty good
industrial story in 1t with Richmond
attachment. have thought 1t we'll
enough to tell about 1t.
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