The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02

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/ tention than the deepening of James
river, and the further requirement of
wharfage and terminals and improv-
| ing the dock by the city. With the
! depth of channel that the James river
should have there offers a great de-
| velopment. and on the flats on the
Southside, where establishments can
4 be erected, to which canals can be
/ opened TO take full advantage of the
economical application of system of
| standardized barges, which the COM
pletion Of the Atlantic deeper water
ways project will certainly bring into
existence.
Railroads Big Help.
The opening up of the great coal
! fields of Virginia and West Virginia
and the development of the trunk
/ lines that center in our city added
! further possibilities to our advantages.
/ Our factories were thus enabled to
procure fuel for steam purposes on
most economical rates, and to this
has been lately added the electrical
power which now has become in such
common use.
/ In the matter OF building, we have
/ had many advantageous conditions. At
! nSf dOpfH aIG LILO great STaHlEs quar-
rieSs putting out stone of the finest
quality. A large quantity of timber
/ is close by. Clay suitable for bricks
exists in our very midst, and sand and
gravel which have now become so i'm
portant in the great development of
concrete work, Is close at hand and
thus step by step has Richmond made
strides in business of every descrip-
ton and gone forward on q basis so
sound that nothing can now stop the
! logical conclusion that she is but on
the threshold of her future impor-
lance.
We have here a full quota of I'm
skilled labor, easy to control and in
the main dependable. Our skilled me-
chanics are. for the most part, our
own people, giving and demanding
that respect that is a most important
| factor in anicable relations between
employer and employe.
We have here now a street car
system second to none, which has en-
ahled citizens of all classes and con-
4 ditions to have homes ana become
householders in uncongested districts
THE early completion of the Rich
mond and Rappahannock railroad and
/ the assurance that the Richmond.
I Washington and Chesapeake railroad
to the Northern Neck, when COM
pleted will add more to our city's
Z
oped for. years, The bookbinding and
publishing interest of Richmond is
one that should not be overlooked.
This magnitude now is a great factor
and with the possibilities of another
large publishing interest soon locating
here viii further add to its impor-
lance,
Financial Advantages Many.
/ Our banking facilities and condi-
tions have taken the most pronounced
strides of any of our activities, put
ting our financial institutions not only
in a position to accumulate all local
requirements but they can and do
extend banking facilities to our South
ern States. all of which puts US in
touch with a most important part of
our country in it's relation to our job
4 bing business
To- day Richmond Is leading the
world in the manufacture Of hfotting
paper and the manufacture of baking
powder and the largest woodworking
plant. Here baseball bats are made
/ for the great National leagues. Her
locomotive plant has just put out the
largest locomotive ever manufactured.
and the increase in this industry, with
( its high-class OF skilled labor, means
much to our city.
/ Her tobacco industry, the leading
one of our city, by comparison to
! other places of manufacture, is not as
! large, still in the Important branch
| of cigarettes we are putting out the
largest number of any other one dis
| trict Here is the headquarters of
/ the Austrian Reggie buyer, and
4 through Richmond is bought the Ital-
ian government requirements Of Vir-
/ ginia tobacco; and here is established
the agency for the Spanish. French
and Japanese governments for their
tobacco requirements. Here are To-
Gated the head offices of the two
great tobacco corporations. one fur
nishing. leaf tGbaccn. TO. Great Brit
ain and the other all over the world
both adding In a very large degree
10 this important business. Here are
located the leaf houses of the several
large home tobacco corporations as
well as the leading manufacturing es-
Establishments of several of these, and
to these must be added seven or
eight smaller but, by no means, in
significant Independent manufacturers
and re-handling plans, all combining
to make the general tobacco business
of our city the largest in her history,
and with every possibility for further
Increase.
Facts and Figures.
what Richmond was in manufac-
turing and other business. we have no
statistics that so back many years.
but we know to-day that she has In
creased 80 per cent. in jobbing busi-
ness, and loo per cent In nanufac-
turing business, each of which now
reach nearly $4,000, 10000.
cent, and her banks have a capital
and surplus of SIC. 100000, and de-
posts of nearly $50, 900, 900.
Her insurance companies have in
creased most wonderfully and to-day
are a great factor not only in their
particular line but in lending money
in our community and State.
Modern office buildings. which a
few years since we were absolutely
without, now have been erected on
nearly every important corner and
they now have in them over 1000 Of
fees, or space for Offices Our hotels.
of which we stood SO long In need.
are equal to those of cities double
our size. both in character of enter
tainment and their size or accommo-
dalton.
The Retail Trade.
Richmond's retail trade, there is no |
doubt. has taken strides that win ex-
CPHd any other bnsina@g In tho atfx