The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-10

| is MILLING TOWN
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Southern cities. Altogether they grind
up from 100000 TO 5000. ooD
bushels of whea. every year and scat
ter their superior -four to the four
winds of the earth as outlined in the
above paragraphs. They have already
shipped and booked for shipment TO
the foreign lands named above $4,000
barrels OF -four ground and TO be
ground from the present years wheat
crop.
A Romance In Commerce
In gathering the information In re-
gard to Richmond's milling business
4. OF to-day in order to refute the croak-
ings OF the knockers, | ran upon a
! story OF trade and commerce that ought
10 be interesting to school children as
| we'll as old folks. for 1t tells us bur
Few stories can tel! of how trade and
traftlc and commerce have made the
whole world akin. The Dunlop Mills
snip Hour to an oasis in the middle of
the great Desert of Sahara where 1t
Is made into bread to be eaten By
Arabian denizens Of tie oasis and
travellers through the desert This
nour is shipped in jute bags that hold
| 10 pounds The travels OF the jute
| that makes the bag that holds the
Richmond ground flour that goes 10
aiiay the hunger of the Arabian. wan
derers and camel drivers of the great
desert is the romantic story / have To
relate.
Worldwide Travels of Jute
The jute grows in India. where II
Is gathered. picked and prepared for
Shipment by natives to Asia. who are
PAID cents per day for their labor.
II is shipped from an Asiatic port
I through the Indian Ocean, through the
Suez Cana, through the full length of
the Mediterranean Sea. between the
rocks OF Gibralta. along up the Atlantic
Ocean to Dundee. Scotland In Dundee
the Jute is made into cloth By Euro
pean workmen and workwomen, who
, are paid from 20 TO 80 cents per day.
From Dundee the jute cloth comes
across the Atlantic to Jersey City. N
j.. where 1t is made into large bags
oy American workmen. who get
| from $l5o to 81 per day. In the Jersey
CITY factory the jute bags are labeled
! IN Arabic letters or characters and are
shipped to the Dunlop Mills in Rich
mond' where 2lS pounds of hrst-class
Rtchmond ground flour are packed in
each bag by Virginia workmen. who
make from 81 to $3.50 a day
Back to the Waters
me Jute bags. now filled with Rich
| mona made Hour. are shipped TO New
port News. where they are loaded on
steamers for port in Germany. and
, from there they are reshipped to Alex
andria, in Egypt, on the African Cont
! neht And now the same jute. made
into bags well filled with Richmond
! travelled between the Gibralta rocks,
. through the Mediterranean Sea. land
ing near to the mouth of the SueZ
| Canal, through which IL has already
made one trip. 80 Alexandria the
Richmond made -four in jute bags is
loaded on the backs of camels and
the caravan managed by half-naked
Arabians takes 1t TO the middle OF the
great desert. and the -four is eaten and
that Is the end of it, bur the int
keeps travelling on.
Coming Dnck Again.
The empty jute bags are taken by
the wanderers of the desert to the
Egyptian cotton growers. who buy
them and use them in baling their
cotton for the European market. In
the shape OF cotton bagging then the
jute that was made into cloth to be
made into bags in which to ship Rich
inuHu mace HOur TO the Desert of
Sahara starts on another long journey
and again traverses the Mediterranean
Sea. passes under frownins Gibraltar
for the third time, makes a fourth trip
on the Atlantic and finally lands In the
cotton factories of Manchester Eng
land. and there I leave 1t. Scherer,
Wiley and Patton and the State blood
hounds can take up the trail there If
they want to. although am not aware
that the jute has been guilty OF any
thing bad On the contrary IT has done
wonders. performed q great service to
suffering humanity and furnished the
readers of the Industrial Section with
an interesting and accurate account
of how the needs OF man and the in
dustries and agencies engaged in
meeting the demands OF hungry hu-
manity bring all the ends of the earth
together on the broad level of trade,
traffic and commerce. and Incidentally
1t tells how the American workingman
makes more out of jute's travels than
anybody else. Now how dare the an
cient citiben or the modern kicker and