The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-18
MONEY IN WHEAT
OF VIRGINIA MAKE
The Du n 10 p Mills and
TheirlmmenseForeign
and Domestic Trade.
RIG H MO ND S BIG
MILLING INDUSTRY
Richmond and Virginia Milf
Can Keep Wheat Growers
Busy All the Year Round.
Demand for Virginia Grown
Grain Largely Exceeds
the Present Supply.
ny FRANK s. wooDsoN,
Industrial Editor

Away back yonder in what Uncle
Remus would call .'de fore de wal
days" Richmond was a great milling
town. but when the Crenshaws and
the Haxalls and the Gallesoes were in
their prime all OF South America got
Dust OF IT was made from wheat grown
along. the James River. In those good
OLD days the James River farlnerd
raised wheat TO beat the band. The
big plantations below and above Rich
mond were crowded with slave labor,
and wheat was the big money cro,,
and the owners of those many slaves.
Great ships used to come in hers,
from Brazilian and other South Amer
lean lea ports loaded with coffee, and
centre of this country. The same shtra
Went back to Rio de Janero and other
south American An ports loaded to thu
mond from Virginia grown wheat.
Then Came Change.
In the course OF time they got to
Sising wheat in the Argentine Re
public, and the wide-awase Brazillluns
built mills to grind UP that wneat; and
to make it pay more largely, Brazli
caught on 10 the protective tariff idea.
whatever the ruling body OF that
country may have been cailed made
tarin laws that cut America IN gem
eEal, and Virginia In particular, OFF
the undoing OF the Crenshaws and the
HaSalls and the Gallegoes of Rich
| nond. and the big Richmond Touring
| mills went into a temporary state OF
tnocuous desuetude that lasted several
years. The old Haxall Crenshaw Mills.
the Dunlop Mills and the Gallego Mtlia
| the probability is that they would
have gone entirely out of existence
| had it not been for some wide awake
young men. young then, who hayina
I
| cluded that South America was ycrg
small part OF the earth, and there
were some other foreign neids for pro-
gre&siTe Richmond to conquer in a
| commerciai and In a Hour king way
Young Blood In Evidence.
To go into the details OF Just how
intensely interesting. but the details
| would take up too much space. more
than l have at my command for this
issue. 1t is sufficient to say that some
not like, to say. young man.
young then; named me- ,Saa Warner e,os9opa Mo0Te; !
was just as well located for the
big milling business as it was in tha
old days, He and his associates wens
to work along this line; and , ,oeisi, beiore
ing the, fact that Richmond vas nos
doing the good flour and grain bust
ness It used to do, knew what was IN
Mills, the s6ockoe Mills and the still
more famous Dunlop Mills all under
one control. Very we'll did these
/ the curious tariff laws South America
was lost TO Richmond as q customer
for -four, but they had virginia lof =
market, all the. South for a market,
and there was Great Britain and Ger
| many and Holland and the Wesr
Indies and all OF the balance OF the
world that was not vailed IN by ao-
| Surd tariff laws,
Shipping Facilities.
\, And then came along the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Railway and i hnilt Ma,,s .
and made Newport News a great snip.
ping point for all kinds Of produers o5
this great country. Warner Moore and
right well have they improved IT, To-
1 dal Richmond is grinding more wheaI {
and shipping more -four TO forelsm
Il It swapped Richmond flour for South
4 American coffee, a great deal more.
! The foreign shipments are nov maze MAG
to all parts OF Great brita1ni h .as reau
Dunlop brand Of -four being Liverpool.
Hull, London and Manchester, n Eng Eng
land, and from these points az aaa,, Haar-
Dundee, il Leith and Edinhurg IN !, scot, GO :,
land; Dublin, Belfast. Cork and NJ, othes
points in ireland; Amsterdam ar. ana Z
in other Countries; to saw nothing OF
tho immense trade in Havana, san /,
tiago and other points n oupa ds.u ~,
The West Indies Inc fror; Al. Riehmond ] in enor-
I5ops nn1pt'esilrl enrload sd lots TO Newport News
ana thence by ship, direct to the por.a Us
named, ana II, from MI InoHe ai1 over S the @ coun-
la which recognize these ports
Home Trade Is Enormous.
But the srs noteaiih OF ali of the territory the
Dunlop Mills have conquered IN the
-four line, -, : :.
TO say nothing Of e samsthna saels ln'eena ine
local trade and 4, a rs nonR sone's', or Corner @
in Richmond or in all virginia IN
which the Dunlop -four is not known
and not used BY the far seeing housss-
: wives, the COMPANY has spread on. ~ ,sp w
, other southern States and their trade
in the two C,arolinas, in Georgia ana
in Florida Is simply enormous
The combined mills employ not a ,sss y
and another. Their pay roll is greaN
! their barrel and bas account is enos-
NOUS, their drayage bills are exceed
inrlv large, and In one way ana an
other they distribute vast deal OF
money every week that gets loose m
! the trade channels Of Richmond .,.,z
Leaving out the locai safes o. s .nlH
l,iny concern do not think over
estimate est M the hgures when say that y
a this one concern brings TO Richmond
bout sSOO0,ooo of outside money every Y
year. That is something Ike Sig,po. !.
= every Worklrs Gay III Inc y go tts's
is a whole lot Of money. for distrt-
4 button, isn't IT? And that brings ne :
: to the point ! am aiming at. and ~
r anybody thinks I am writing all OF
!, this account as an advertisement TOE
. the Warner Moore a-Dunlop-GalleEn 2
y Mills combination. then that anybody
lis greatly mistaken.
yirGinta's Bis Chance.
Rp close questioning have found
out that these mills have to get 50
i, per cent of the wheat they grind Into
Il -four FOR foreign and domestic, sh.p-
Il ment from the West sud the Northwest.
$, They prefer the Virginia wheat be-