The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-05
GREAT GROWTHO|
SOLID RICHMOND
Facts and Figures From
Census Records and
Elsewhere,
DANVILLE, 100,
SHOWS INCREASE
All Kinds Of Goods Manufac-
tured in the Best City in Which
to Live-Comparative Sta
tistics That Tell Most
Pleasing Story-Other
Virginia Cities.
ny FRANK S. WOODSON,
Industrini Editor.

The census figures for the cities and
towns in Virginia as far as they haye
been made public. are proving very
gratifying. But few ii any towns OF
any size In the State show q. decrease
In population. and all of the cities
show pleasing increases. But the work
OF the census takers as 1T pertains to
the nero matter OF population, while
gratifying in the main, is not as fully u
Significant of the growth of Virginia
cltles and towns as are the tigures
which pertain to the Industrial de-
velopmont. the commercial growth and 81
the agricultural strides of the past
ten years. f5N
These figures as made BY the census
takers are not yet available in fuIl,6
Ivy IN all Of the cities there are
Chambers Of Commerce, Business Men,s IS
Associations and tho like that, have
Kept the statistics Pertaining to In
dustrial growth from year to year, and :.
.hesc are quite as accurate and re-
liable rs those that arc to come along rs
later from the Census Bureau The In 7
uustrial Section proposes to use these IS
statistics and those OF the Census
3ureau from time to time until the
world shall know Just how Old Vir-8
sin!a has grown and prospercd during 81
the Decade just closed. silTj9
some Telling Itichmond Figures.
Rlchmond has made great strides m
al industrial and commercial lines as y
wen as along educational and religious
mes but 1t has perhaps advanced no Y
more rapidly and no more suhstan-fS
TALLY IN proportion to Size and advan-
taSes than have tho other cities or the 4.
state have been studying some very
interesting data that has been Stabu-
lated by the Chamber of Commences
and propose to dissect those tables
and put the information they contain
IN more digestible form for the aver
age reader From 1900 to 1910 tho
population increased BY Immigration, rs
annexation. etc. from S5.O50 to IL
COS, which was n trifle over so per
cent if73s&
BANKING operations are considered
the world over as the readiest and
most reliable evidence OF n c.,y's per Z
manent and solid growth i31
The banking capital and surplus In y
creased In the decade from S. 262SoO
10 Sl2,oo3l00. or 100 per cent Bank
deposits SC from S16,330,309 in 1900
to sSO,S0I,i0o In 1910. an increase or s.
"a per cent Loans went up FROM
Sl5.Il7,000 III 1900 to s37S53. 400 last
year. an increase Of III per cent Bank
assets increaS- 1T per cent. or from
S2t,oaiooo In 1900 to S5..33.14U55in
1910, while tho bank clearances jumped
from Sla7,653,si5 in 1900 to S3l4.7y4-
S'3 last year, or liz per cent IN
crease. Az.
Factories Grent nn,l Small. l4
Richmond prides itself on its many
manufacturing plants from the smut
industries M TO the largest kind, tor
no city IN the land opera yes q greater
variety of manufacturing plants. Rich- "
mond makes everything In the iron-4S
working line from metallic shoe heel 81
taps up to steam locomotives and
automobiles, and everything in ths
wood working line from broom han-
dies and baseball bats UP to box cars y
and completed houses. 1t also. makes
smoking and chewing tobacco by the
millions, cigars. cheroots an, Gig
arettes by the billions shoes, pro-
prietary medicines. paper. flour, bak-
Ing powders and goodness knows What
else. The manufacturing plants ms
this city have ncrcasc in number
from HOO in 800 to l,1s2 II 1910, an
increase Of 81 per cent. Capital In
vested In these plants has grown II, III
TIE decade from S4?.l26,000 10 SIS,
100000, an increase of So per cent,
and the value of the products Of the
factories has grown from s4S9Ou.Uou
WhoiesnlinE Business Grows.
As a wholesale and jobbing centre. IS
no city in the land OF RIchmond.s size
can hold candle 70 her. In 1900 tho
capital invested i'll tho johbing trads Il
amounted TO Slu,io0 900 while to-day
II foots up sl3.:50.000. an Increase 6c 3
81 per cent. The total sales OF the al
jobbers IN 1900 amounted to $oS, 63i, 100 81
while last year they footed up STl,-I
i90.1l9. an Increase of So per cent. Thas%
office receipts in 900 were $.7l,- Il
100. and last year they footed up S6o1,-
10, or an increase OF li2 per cent. e
Ten years ago 1854 telephones were
i'll use in Richmond and now there X
arc | 500. IAN increase in ten years OF s
49i per cent, In 1900 there were
Scventy-five miles OF street railway Il
lines IN the city, and now there arc Is
io5 miles in operation, and within Il
month another company Viii have five
miles more in working order. Street
railway passcnsa:S c:--so~ in 3l9UG y
were lS,oie.sSo Last year the trolley
lines collected i0,6i9,9S9 fares an In
crease or l2s per cent. iss
These be glowing figures. telling as s55
they do OF Richmond's growth, but B
there arc vet other statistics Fthatsa
speak just as Loudly. The figures cullai
from the bucks and records Of tho
city government also tell Il beautiful 81
story Of rapid growth and substantial
prosperity.
From the Municipal Books. ma
Property valuations increased fro,s Is
Soa,552S2i in 1900 to- s1s7.5i6,429 In
1910. which Is IN Increase of106 per Isl
cent, At the same time personal .prop- d
erty valuation ran Up from sese9a,0t.
20 sS6.3iS,S52, m Increase or les per-
cent THIS. mind YOU, is the taxable Il,
valuations which IS really not morn SIS
than % 70 10 per CEN. Of the market s
Ivnlnc. In 1900 the city had twclra s
parks and boulevards. and now ii nan
sixteen, the park acreage having In
CONTINUED on Second 70 e.J Il -. zl