The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-28

from envelopes and paper boxes up to the output
OF the largest plotting paper factory in the world;
from little one-ounce glass bottles up to the big
gest things that can be made Of glass; from one
ounce cans OF baking powders, made in the largest
mandatory Of its kind in the South, up to the
flour output of the biggest FIGURING mills in the
South, and so on and SO on.
.,9 The tobacco interest, of course, is enormous.
All local readers know that; but there are readers
beyond the local tobacco territory who need to be
told of these things. One gigantic company has
twenty-five acres of tobacco storage warehouses
and sheds, recently erected on the most modern
plans. The railway tracks run through the prop
erty and make shipping in and out very small
matter and drayage thing of the past This
plant is SO constructed and the water works are
Sc. complete and so up-to-date that insurance is a
mere bagatelle This big company, which has
factories all over the United States and does bust
ness all over the world, sought South Richmond
as its storage point because Of the superior ship
ping and other kinds of facilities and the company
had the whole country to choose from
There are two other enormous tobacco storage
houses and three stemming and rcdrying plants,
in which the Virginia and Carolina leaf tobacco
that seeks this market is redricd stemmed, gen
orally prepared and packed for shipment to all
parts of the globe. Plug and smoking tobacco
factories are also seeking sites in South Richmond
Because Of its splendid location and superior
advantages in many ways, South Richmond has
become the central point of the Virginia Passenger
and Power Company. and the big terminal sta
ton of that company, just completed and put in
operation, is a tremendously big thing of itself.
Then, again. South Richmond has its own
banks the consolidation Of Manchester and Rich
mond in no way affected the interest of the two
big banks, the combined capital Of which is St50,-
900, and as one of them will increase its capital
from $4,000 to 100000 next month"; it will soon
be 100000 Other assets, including surplus and
value of buildings and securities run the assets
far beyond the above figures. The deposits
amount to about $500, 900, and the loans and dis
counts to about the same figure.
All Of these manufacturing and industrial plants
employ thousands Of well paid people, and natur-
ally Washington Ward is as old Manchester ever
was, a splendid mercantile point, and no part Of
Greater Richmond has better managed or more
attractive retail stores. The thousands of EN-
ployes. of these industrial plants are also good
home builders and prompt paying rent payers and
SO South Richmond property, both vacant and
improved is becoming more and more valuable
every day. Indeed, it would seem that South
Richmond was cut out from all eternity to be the
manufacturing and industrial centre Of Greater
Richmond. That means the manufacturing and
industrial centre of Virginia, and that in turn,
means the manufacturing and industrial centre
Of the South, and the industrial South is rapidly
becoming the industrial as we'll the agricultural
centre Of the earth,
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