The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-02
BIG WAREHOUSES;
TO HOLD TOBACCO
Twenty-Five Acre Plant to Store
fragrant Leaf in South
Richmond.
ALMOST COMPLETE NOW
Fourteen Giant Structure
Needed to Handle Virginia
Product.
COMPLETE NOW
ALMOST

Over on Maury Street. between this
Petersburg Turnpike and the Atlantic
COAT Line Railway tracks, there are
twenty-five acres OF thoroughly modern
and up-to-date tobacco warehouses,
built and owned By the American To-
bacco Company.
Nowhere else in this country {. to
be found such a repository for leaf to-
bacco as has been erected by this com
pany in the edge Of South Richmond.
a series Of warehouses with an UNI
believable storage capacity. This
tremendous enterprise. together with
the mammoth tobacco manufacturing
plant about to be erected By the r
y. Patterson Tobacco Company on
Spring HILL points to a now era In
the business life OF tbs erst,rhile Man
chester.
These fourteen warehouses, each OF
an unusual size. spread over a ,yidu
area OF twenty-five acres, have every
,aSlity for tho quick handling Of to-
Race. NJ are built exactly alike. are
uoueled along somewhat new lines for
warehouse architecture, and arc or.
Pccted to be vast Improvement over
inc old-faShioncd, almost air-tight
warehouse. From 6 distance. they have
the appearance OF enormous sheds. Tho
outside walls are Practically hugo win
~" shutters, arranged 30 that all rain
70 prevented from entering. but free
sweep Of air IL allowed through the
tons OF atored tobacco. Except for the
tooi and floor, the houses are built on.
tirely OF wood
Kcndy for Fragrant Leaf.
Work has progressed so rapidly
That the last one Is almost COMPLETED
and VIII soon be ready for Its store
Iot fragrant leaf. There still remains
Some exterior work to be done on the
warehouses, but this VIII not inter
terc with the immediate storage OF
tobacco
a spur track of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railway runs now through tho
heart of the section. AS fast as one
building was completed. III. freight
ears we're switched up to It's doors ano
TONS or tobacco unloaded, SO that now,
before the last warehouse Is finished,
there are alrcad.- thousands OF pounds
q tobacco stored there.
Now that the actual work OF pro-
N!dinE storage place for the millions
OF pounds Of tobacco recently pur-
chased by the American Tobacco Com
pany In the Richmond market has been
provided. and most OF this years sup
ply laid under ahelter, the lahors OF
the workers Will be turned TO tbs i'm
proSement Of ground around and be-
tween the twenty-five acres of land
According TO the plans or the company,
The plant is TO look like nlinia,ur.
city. with its regularly laid of streets
and roads and the small railway sys.
tom running through it al. The un.
dertakins OF effecting proper draining
Tor the plant Is important as well as
aiitcult. as the land is rather flat. and
Tater has tendency to settle in II
instead OF running off. Blu. specia,
attention Will be paid by the company
20 this feature.
To De Properly Guarded.
To inclose the whole twenty-five
acres there Will be erected a high
board fence, which will serve to Keep
undesirable persons out OF tho plant
application has been made to the
seunty authorities for protection Of
the grounds and the stored tobacco
dntii the fence is built, and the com.
pany can engage several special oh-
GERS to patrol the Enclosure.
It IS obvious that the Anaerl-
can Tobacco Company. in selecting
this site for its plant, recognized the
fact that it is just beyond tho boun-
Diary line Of the city, and ia ccnse-
quenny exempt from city taxation.
The plant is. in fact. divided from the
city of Richmond by Maury Street,
which is the city limit on the south
east, but 1t is not improbable that
the city will before long reach oui
across the street and take in the clulnp
Of manufacturers near the new ware.
house system and the populous neigh
aorhoods Of Oak Grove and swans
toro.
III building this plant It is under
stood that the American lobacco Com
oany had in mind a sufficiently largo
place OF storage for the quant.,.es oi
tobacco required for the running oil
the r. a. Patterson tobacco plant, soon
TO be built In South Richmond and
other factories OF the American To-
oacco company on the north side OF
the James. Having d big place OF
storage In the vicinity Of the great
Richmond tobacco market Will save the
company much money heretofore spent
in hauling and freighting and the to-
bacco Will at tho same time be nearer
at hand for the Richmond branches.