The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-31
Tobacco Factories Still
Ready to | uild OH
Bigger Scale.
GREAT INDUSTRY
GOT START HERE
Richmond Tobacco Products
Known and Sold Throughout
the World Millions Invested
and Thousands Of People
Employees on
Decision.

Exactly how Rlchmond'S largest In
dustry VIII be affected by the United
States Supreme Courts order directing
the reorganization of the American
Tobacco Company as a combination
Illegally restraining trade remains to
be seen. but those closest to the local
situation believe that there will be
little or no effect upon the business
as whole. The various branches
know how far they may go, and what
they must not do. The rights of indie
pendent manufacturers are better Sc
cured, and they are relieved of GER
tain oppressive methods which have.
prevailed IN past years
Certainly the tobacco interests do
not appear to be apprehensiYe. The
American Tobacco Company is erect
Ing just outside of South Richmond
enormous storage barns for housing
tobacco by wholesale. The r. A. Pat
terson Tobacco Company is having
plans drawn for mammoth new plant
in the West End. The X. j. Reynolds
Company yesterday secured permission
10 add another story TO . warehouse
1t is erecting for handling sun-cured
leaf, and 1t is openly limited by the
Reynolds representatives that the
great Durham concern may shortly be-
gin the manufacturing OF it's product
here we'll as at Durham. Rich
mond being the centre Of the sun
cured belt. The independents are
equally ortimistic
Grentert Advertisement.
Not only is the handling and manu-
facturc of tobacco Richmond's largest
industry. but 1t Is Rlchmond's great
est advertisement. The products OF
Richmond factories are sold around
the world. Obscure shops in the in
terror OF China advertise In flaming
posters cigarettes made in this town.
There are few important points in
Europe where one may not secure any
one OF dozen well known bra nds OF
Richmond toba Geo, the smoke of which
goes up daily In every nation under
the SUM- Every sailor In the United
States Navy has his allowance of Rich
mond made chewing tobacco. More
than 5000 operatives are carried d.
rectly on the pay rolls OF tobacco fac
tories. while thousands OF others are
engaged in handling. stemming ana
jobbing. and In manufacturing acces-
series such S tin cans, wooden ana
pas,eboar I'd boxes. bags, licorice. chew
ing gum and snuff.
Employ Io,sT5 Hands.
In statement OF Richmond business
conditions for 1910 prepared by j. II.
WhittN 1t was shown that in the
manufacture of tobacco. cigars, cigar
cts and cheroots, there were in Rich
mond thirty-three plants. employing,
1886 hands. with capital of s2.9lo,250
and sales last year OF s6.115.15O. Smok-
ing chewing and reprising tobacco
manufacturing institutions numbered
seventeen, employing 3,aS+ hands. with
a capital OF s3.995.00 and total sales
in 1910 OF $15,235.175. Factories en-
gagged in making tin and paper boxes
and bags, largely for the tobacco
trade. number twenty seven, employ
ing 1925 hands, with a capital of Ss52,-
Exact figures Of the 1obbing trade in
tobacco are not available. as much OF
1t Is handled wholesale by wholesale
grocery houses and not eported sep
arately.
Loose leaf sales on the Richmond
warehouses during 1910 for all grades
of tobacco exceeded 10000 pounds,
the average price having been about
$40 per hundred pounds. More than
so, 900 hogsheads of tobacco changed
hands. the packages averaging more
than 1000 pounds, making fully 10000
600 pounds handled here last year in
packages. Loose leaf and package
sales in Virginia and Carolina tobacco
made the total trading on the Rich
mond ma rket in 1910 exceed 50.000,0 900
pounds. which does not include large
amounts of Cuban. Pennsylvania. Con-
necticut and imported tobacco brought
here for use In manufacturing various
CARS.
Chamber Statement.
Chamber of Commerce bulletin
issued recently says of Richmonds to-
bacco industry:
Resides having the largest cigarette
factory in the world and the finest and
largest cigar factory. there is also
manufactured here the bulk of the
finest cut plug tobacco sold In the
United States. the brands of which are
famous all over this country.
"Richmond has the hgad Offices of
the Imperial Tobacco Company of Eng
land and of the Japanese government
in this country. 1t is also one OF the
principal storage handling and manu-
featuring points of the American To-
bacco Corporation. All of the leaf to-
bacco from this section OF the country
used by the Italian, Austrian, French
and Spanish governments Is handled
through Richmond by representatives
of these countries. while large guam
titles of leaf tobacco are shipped by
individual concerns all over the world"
Source Of WcnIth.
For generations Richmond has been
the centre OF tobacco handling and
manufa curing for the South. many of
the great fortunes OF the older Rich
mond families having been founded on
trade in tobacco or Its preparation for
the market Several OF the older Rich
mond plants, including the great cigar
cite Industry established by Major
Lewis Ginter. were among those which
formed the nucleus Of the tobacco
trust, and one after another manyt!of
the Richmond factories have either
been ACQUIRED by or afflliated with the
trust. To large extent tho factories
here are now managed by agents OF
the great New Jersey. corporation,
When first formed, a numb er OF prom