The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-27
CHASE CITY GROWS.
SOME INDUSTRIES
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par value of 500 per share, can't be
bought for less than s2O7 per share
The *. Nicholson Furniture Com
pany runs an immense factory which
turns out bedroom suits in great guam
Titles and sells them in carload and
tralnload lots all over the country
This Industry was located here be-
cause of the nearness of the raw
material. the forests in this section
being crowded with superior timber
for furniture making
For the same reason the Jeffreys
Spauldins Manufacturing Company So
lected Chase City for it's habitat.
This concern uses millions of feet OF
Old Virginia pine in the manufacture
or box shocks. and sells It's entire cut
put to the Standard Oil Company.
The Ice, Fuel and Ginning Corpora
ton is a new concern that is making
Ice and shipping to nearby points he
sides supplying the local trade The
company is erecting and equipping a
cotton gin for the benefit and con-
venience of the many planters IN this
section who are branching out ex-
tensively in the cultivation of cotton.
Beyond the corporate limits and
near to the town are n number If
sawmills and lumber plants, which
are to all intents and purposes. cx-
cept for paying town taxes, Chase
City enterprises. They ship from here,
they bank here and they buy all their
supplies. here, as do the hundreds OF
operatives they employ. Among these
are the Southern Pine Lumber Cnrn-
pany r. L. Hcrvey, lumber and cross
tie dealer. who is the largest cross
tie contractor in the State; B. F. Bor-
den e. Company, extensive manufac-
turers and shippers OF barrel slaves
and headings; d. NJ. Coftey. extensive
lumber dealer and sawmill operator,
and others
Meclslenburg Mineral Springs.
The industry which has done more,
perhaps, to make Chase City known
to the far North. the far South and
the far West. and In all the inter-
mediate sections. is that of the Neck
lenburg Mineral Springs Company.
Since the destruction by fire three
years ago OF the magnificent hotel
owned by the company and conducted
In connection with the business OF
bottling and shipping the waters and
manufacturing the famous Mecklen-
burg ginger ales. Colonel William r.
Hughes. the president and general
manager has given his entire time
and attention to the water and ale
business. The water bottling estab-
y
have been rebuilt, and fully and ex-
pcnsivcly equipped with all OF the
very latest machinery and apparatus
for steriliZing. cleansing, bottling.
packing. etc. While many waters and
alcs throughout the country have
locked horns with and had vast trou-
bles with the national and State pure
food boards. the Mecklenburg Mineral
Springs Company and Colonel Hughes.
sttI 4.
lishments. have thoroughly satisfied
all Of the most exacting inspectors
and experts. and their products both
of waters and ales are stamped A
No on the records of the boards.
The Health Giving Waters.
There are two springs owned by the
company and both give forth valuable
waters Of different characters. The
Mecklenburg mineral is fine mineral
ana table water. light. clear and
sparkling. possessing unusual and val
liable mineral constituents and obso-
lutely free OF organic matter. 1t is
characterized especially by the pres
ence OF comparatively large amounts
OF nitratcs Of lime and soda, together
with the chlorides Of lime. magnesia
, and soda, producing nitro murlated'
water of exceptional POTENCY and
value The doctors use it in large
quantities for Brights disease and all
kidney and bladder troubles. we'll
as indigestion, govt. rheumatism. dis
, cases OF the bowels Ind stomach and
various other bodily troubles.
The Mecklenburg chloride calcium
water is unique In its constituents and
'Hec's The doctors are my authority
or inc statement that investigation
mas failed TO ind In America or in
Europe another water similar In Its
ahhlysis and effect. They say 1t has
wonderful curative powers In catarrhal