The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-05
TOBACCO IS KING
IN WINSTON SALEM
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in the South. and with but two or
three exceptions, tho largest in the
world. l am sure 1 have not seen all
OF the tobacco manufacturing plants in
the world or in the South. but have
seen this one and have the facts and
hSurcs which will be given, and thor
II there is one anywhere in the terri.
tory mentioned that can beat them
Just let 1t stand UP and be counted.
Facts and Figures.
The factory or factories as they now
stand in Winston Sa lem, not counting
an immense fivestory Office building
row nearing completion. cover approx
lmateiy twenty-five acres of ground
The floor space is nearly million
square feet. In twenty or more tobac-
co markets in the country where tie
company has leaf buyers they have
large packing and ordering houses that
are not counted in the above. In
Richmond, for instance. the Reynolds
company has big leaf houses, and is
now building an immense plaft on
ground recently purchased. at Elcv.
enth. Twelfth and Byrd Streets, for
the purpose.
The main body OF the plant here in
Winston Salem covers four blocks
right in the heart of the city. and all
OF the buildings are first class and
up TO date In their construction and
equipment. The main buildings which
are grouped on the four blocks, are Of
fees, plug making departments, smok-
ing tobacco departments picking de-
parinlents, ordering departments
shipping departments. power and
lighting and heating departments and
immense storage houses. while In 9th
CT parts Of the town there are also
storage and ordering houses To all
OF these the railway tracks run, and
the loading and unloading are done
right at the door. and this in the
course Of year saves thousands or
dollars In the matter of drayagc.
Twentieth Century Layout.
is sufficient to say that the entire
plant is perfectly equipped with the
very latest machinery known to the
tobacco Industry. Any tobacco man
knows what this means. To go into de-
tails 10 make its meaning full and com
plete TO tho outsider would be to take
up too much space 1t is enough to say
that genius has supplied tobacco manu-
lecturers with automatic machinery Ia
DO almost every detail Of the work,
ana any old-time tobacco manufact-
urer who could return from his grave
where, ne may have been resting. say
Tor a quarter of q century, would ind
but few familiar things in twentieth
century factory. fIe would fnd oyer
atiXes, both white and black, male and
female. separating the stem from the
leaf by hand. and swayinE their bodies
ana singing over their work lust as In
the old times, but with this execution
pretty much everything is now done
oE automatic machinery, even in the
hllinE Of the boxes and bags in the
smoking department, and the stamp
ing Of the same is all done by ma
chnery. Machines do all Of this, except
the tying Of the string which holds the
bag secure, There is a fortune await
Ing the man who invents a machine
TO perfectly stem the leaf tobacco, and
another goodly fortune for the one who
will find a tying machine for the smok-
Ing tobacco bag.
I In all of the departments of the
REYNOLDS plant every known machine I
Is used, and in one depa rtment which
takes UP two immense floors, the mil
lions of tin boxes in which the lead
Ing brand OF smoking tobacco is
packed are made, and all BIZ automatic
machinery II is an enormous tin shop,
III which fifty or more machines cut
from solid sheets OF tin the box proper.
as many more cut out the tops, s
many more the bottoms and yet a
many more put these parts together,
and there is Your box complete ready
to be filled with the dclightfully sooth-
ing granulated or cutpug tobacco
y first-class electric lighting and
power plant fills another building, and
In that all Of the power that runs the
vast machinery halls and all OF the
light necessary are generated Then
another building houses all Of the ma
chincry for steam heating. for steam
drying. etc said this is. taken as
whole, the largest tobacco factory
in the South, and with possibly two
exceptions the larges, in the world
Here are some figures upon which thai
estimate is based
Figures That Talk.
The capital in operation is near S. |
100000. The buildings here in Winston
Salem exclusive of leaf plants ir
many other markets. cover fraction
over, twcnty-two acres Tho poor So, "a