The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-27
UNDERSTANDINGS?
II 'SINBU|.CN ( 4 !: M
An Active and Busy Vii il
lage, Not Yet Much
KnoWntoF anne.
COMING BIG TOWN
I INAGREATCOU7]Nl l y
Big Trade in Tobacco, Lumber,
Cross Ties and sumac-A
Virginia County Abound
ing in Hidden Wealth,
While Crops Grown
on Every Hill.
ny FRANK S. wOODsON.
Inal,latrial Editor.

The first farmers institute train OF
the season was run over the Chesa
peake and Ohio Railway under the
Joint management OF Agricultural
Com G. N, missioner "A iner and K. T. craw--
let Industrial q gent OF tho road, and II
had a most successful trip, large
crowds OF farmers attending the in-
stitutes at every stopping place on the
James River Division and on the maj H.
line OF the road
BY the way, Commissioner kolner
originated these farmers institute
trains. and the railways traversing
Virginia were quick to catch on TO E
his idea and push them right along.
Since they did so much good IN VIZ
einia other Southern states copied at
ter them. the Virginia Commissioners
having no patent on the new idea'
and now they are being run IN Geor-
gia, Alabama. Tennessee. South carr
lima. North Carolina and perhaps other
States They are very popular IN
Virginia. and the steamboat lines com
menced last year to cooperate with
Commissioners Koiner, and number OF
institute boats We're run on virginia.
rivers. bays and estuaries. thus
enabling the theoretical farmers and
lecturers to reach farmers that were
not reachable by rail.
Where Is Dillwyn.
I went out on this kolner-Crawley-
Chesapeake and Ohio institute trainSto
spend lust a day with the lecturers
and the several hundred farmers who
attended the lectures that day. When
1t was announced early In the norm
Ing OF the first day out that one of the
stops was to be at Dillwyn and an IN.
stitute was to be held there several
OF the people on board acknowledss e :
their ignorance of such place az
Dillwyn. they having never before
heard Of It. e
| The siRnoramuses were duly informed
E1hat Dillwyn was the most active and
\ wild e-awake trading post IN Old BUCK
|ingham. one of the greatest. richest
4 I'm a sense) and most prolific counties
1 OF Old Virginia There was at once
4 aroused not little curiosity. and
4 Seyerybody was anxious to see and ex-ssSs
4 plore Dillwyn.
Il When the institute train reached
Bren,o Bluff and was switched of on
4 THE Buckingham branch of the On es-=
apeake and Ohio road, and II was 4
4 announced that the next stop wa 8
i pillw.yn the whole bunch was on "
! toe OF excitement. Arvonia, the STAT
1 emporium OF Buckingham was passed s
by in silence. for we We're all bound
| for Dillwyn, and other stations We're
treated as If they We're not on tne
railway map. When the train pulled In
1
I OF Buckingham county we're there TO
greet It, and the auditorium cars couldt
not conveniently hold them. Therefore
the meeting was held in a BAPTIST
Church nearby, and while the lecturerS5
were discoursing there on better farm
ing and more of it. i prowled around
| the village. took Kodak snapshots and
\ Dillwyn.
Timely informal ton.
1t NAV be that there are very many
readers OF The Times-Dispatcha who
1 are as ignorant OF this village as were
1.-The lecturers and scientists who We're
! aboard the institute train when tt eft
I Richmond@to invade the rural districts
/ alonr. the Chesapeake and Ohio road.
i and it may be that I will be- doing
i good service If tell about 1t and its
i surroundings. III! *
4 Dillwyn Is a very active villag 8or
| more than 200 Inhabitants and does q
general business which cuts a Fl cure
1 largely in excess of that of am o'Nfh
or city that know of In virginia,
4 In proportion to population and facll
i ties. ~ This looks like a pretty proati8
statement. hut 1t Is backed up by facts
i The village is located on the BUCK IL
i inghan branch Of the chesap pea re 6 '.l
4 Ohio Railway. seven miles from the
!!
trading point In, the prolific county 9 g
!. buckingham. 1t has a bank, is a con n
a siderable tobacco market, does an ms
J. I,nense lumber business, a big s,mao
4 business, an enormous railroad Tie
y business is the shipping point 10 r5inany
t an mills surrounding and being tile
) centre Of one OF the finest farming
sections in the State. Is the, shipping
! noint ana trading point for all army
j OF VirgInia's best and most SUCCESSFUL ~
! farmers and yet Dillwyn was heard
but little OF until that great Virginia
developer, the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway, ran Its Buckingham branch
, across the James River at Bremo
! Bluff and up into the heart of Buck
bingham county. b b
The Coming Town,
Z There at pillwyn ten stores and the
4 tobacco warehouse above referred IN q,
4 the slmac warehouses, the railwayaitias
industry, the lumber Interest the y, ba a..
!, and some other thigs that make the
X, formulation. upon which, a pretty blg
:. Virginia town Is going to be 5pullt and
J, that at no distant day.
! asked enc OF the Dillwyn5 ner-s
chants what he thought would keep
:. his village up and make 1t the big
A town and commercial centre he had
II been telling me II IS destined to ha.,
n He answered at considerable length
and Il iotted down on iny8note hook
]. what lie said, ] believe he Is. right.
s and I am going to give the general
J. tenor OF his remarks In condensed
: form. In the first place, Dillwyn. asi
before stated is the biggest trading
$ point and SOY far as railway gfacilt-
9 ties and opportunity 10 reach the ont
!, | side world are concerned. the most
R - Continual on last Spaga-l NJ 5l5sg a