The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-10

very small proportion OF 1t being stored
here for a while and shipped to other
domestic markets for manufacture. and
the cigar stock that comes to Rich
mond is made into cheroots and cigars
In the large factories In Richmond.
These figures show that little over
loO,O00,000 pounds of leaf tobacco OF one
kind and another finds it's way to Rich
mond in hogsheads, and when that
which reaches here by wagon and rail
for sale In the loose state Is added it
will be seen that Richmond handles
about 110.OO0,000 pounds of tobacco a
year.
To handle this vast quantity of to-
bacco from start to finish an immense
amount Of money has to be used and
very large number of people kept
busy. There are four loose leaf ware
houses in Richmond four loose leaf
commission merchants. eighteen COM
mission houses which handle hogshead
tobaccos, ten large manufactures OF
| the plug and smoking. and the enor-
nous plants Of the American Tobacco
| Company and It's allied companies for
the manufacture Of cigars, cheroots
and cigarettes, but these latter are a
sufficient subject for a separate story
to come in at another time.
| Great Money Distributor.
| Among the buyers OF the leaf on the
| market in search of both the loose
and the hogshead goods are represen-
| tatives of the Italian, Austrian. French,
Spanish, German and Japanese govern
ments. and also representatives of Ca
madam factories and the American To-
! bacco Company, the Imperial Com
pany. the r. ]. Reynolds Company, of
North Carolina. and other outside
manufacturers These. with buyers
from all Of the Richmond factories and
the spectators and commission men
who buy on order for out-of-State and
foreign markets. make small army
| of busy men, who. are indeed busy
every day In search of the raw mate
4 rial.
1 Including the salaries paid the Off
! GERS of the large companies and the
armies of operatives. the pay srolls 81
the leaf and chewing and smoking to-
bacco establishments of Richmond ag-
sregate not less than 100000 pei
month or nearly $2.5O0,000 per annum
The pay rolls Of the cigar. cheroot
and cigarette factories In this city will
add more than 100000 per month to
this amount paid out as wages to peo-
pie engaged In the tobacco business In
one way and another.
Add to this the Office expenses. the
cost of maintaining teams, the cost OF
insurance and many other incidental
expenses, and II will be seen that the
tobacco interest distributes vast sums
OF money in Richmond and over &c
/ per cent. of that money comes from
| beyond the borders of Virginia.
Brains, Energy and Money.
This vast business requires the best
Judgment and energy forits successful
management and 1t Is no reelection or
other business mon to say that some
OF the best of Richmond brains ant
Judgment and energy are engaged II
this business. The tobacconists have
their own trade organization, the Rich
mond Tobacco Board OF Trade. which
looks after the vast business In gen
eral way and makes rules, laws ant
regulations for It's general manage,
ment, The officers of the board are
John T.. Wingo. president; S, NJ. Temp
kins, vice president; A. O. Jones, sec
lrNtary and treasurer; and ,Edwart
Wingtield, Inspector
/ Richmond has always been a tobacco
manufacturing town, and the brands
:. of both chewing and smoking that are
turned out from the factories hero
have made Richmond as we'll known
throughout the country and in foreign
parts as has Its war history or any
thing else, perhaps.
4 The ten factories IN daily oneratios