The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-13
KELLY COMPANY
|NNEW QUARTERS
Another Big Warehouse and Dis
tributing Station i'll Great
Railroad Valley.
BUILDING IS UP TO DATE
Beer That Made Milwaukee Fa-
mous-lncrcase of Stock Was
Made Necessary.
BUILDING IS UP TO DATE

The Developments OF the past several
years. especially within the last twelve
months or two years. point uncrringly
TO the fact that sooner or later, sooner.
most likely, that part of Richmond now
known as RAILROAD Valley" Is to be
the wholesale centre of Greater Rich
mond. Greater Richmond has become.
and is rapidly developing into. the
greatest wholesaling and distributing
point in all of the great South. Rich
mond is naturally the gate city of the
South. Its geographical situation with
it's river facilities would make it SO
IL there We're not n railroad in the
country. but there are railroads all
over the country, and no city in tho
land, certainly not one in the South
land, that is better fixed for distrbut-
ing purposes by rail. The roads that
centre here pierce the heart OF the
South, the heart OF the West and the
heart of the North. There are cities
In this vast country in which more
railway lines have depots, but no city
in the whole land has lines that have
better connections and better facilities
for cooperation with outside lines than
has Richmond. The railways that cen
tire here are among the largest and
most influential of the country. and
are so situated that they can demand
Of connecting lines throughout the
country traffic arrangements and
freight concessions that give to Rich
mond advantages that accrue TO but
few cities in all the South. Practically
Richmond gets the advantages that are
TO be offered by roads that do not
come within hundreds OF miles OF the
town.
These advantages have conspired to
make Richmond the greatest OF all the
southern distributing points. and tho
big concerns Of the West and the North
having found this to be the fact, have
sought warehouses and largo buildings
in the Railroad Valley" of the great :
est of Southern distributing points
from which to cater to the trade of
the Southland. Thus. it happens that
the section Of Richmond known rs the
"Railroad Valley" the same being the
region about Thirteenth, Fourteenth.
Fifteenth. Sixteenth. Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Streets. say from Main
northward TO Clay. and even beyond
where trackaGe facilities are available,
has become q wholesaling and distri-
buting and storage warehouse centre
that is something wonderful to be-
hold.
Many large concerns have located in
this region. among them half n dozen
packing houses OF the West have es-
tablished large branch houses and dis
tributing depots here: the Interna-
tional Harvester Company has made its
Southern headquarters here. the Rob-
inson Storage Co. has centred several
concerns here, aud a dozen other con-
Germs that might he named have con-
greSated here because OF the superior
, shipping and distributing facilities.
Phil Kelly Hns to Build.
And now comes the Phil G.. Kelly
! Company, Inc. to be the builders of
the largest warehouse of them all. and
to make it the biggest. so far as values
are concerned. distributing point In all
of the city. ON Eighteenth Street. be-
tween Marshall and Clay. just where
the old Chesapeake and Ohio tunnel
starts under Church Hill. the Kelly
company has built one OF the finest
and most upto-datc warehouses to be
found anywhere In all OF the South.
The building now nearing completion Ia
five stories high, with a basement
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