Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-31
iGREAT CITY HAS
GROWN IN NIGHT
New Star Is Added to Constella-
ton Of Virginia Mu-
inequalities.
lis PERMANENT UNDERTAKING
3Churches, Schools, Hospitals,
Banks and Great Public Works
: Being Rushed to Completion.
is PERMANENT UNDERTAKING

Six months ago Iiopcwcll. the site OF
Rothe big plant OF the T.. !. du Font de
tSNemours Powder Company. was moth
tolng more than tented village. and not
lisa very large one AT that. To-day II
HIS thriving city of $4,000 people.
lG'apidly assuming an air o! perInancncy
with the construction OF brick business
r1ouses, the erection OF homes by the
1s*holcsale and the addition OF trade and
Transportation facilities. Tomorrow
here is no one in Iopewcll who does
ASiot believe that it Will soon DO rccog-
I&glized as the most important industrial
RUenter in Virginia, while it is already
I.., growing factor in the business life
3stf the State.
In A little more than two years ago
dSfarly in September, I9l3--the Du Point
fn ompany began it's first operations
ISsherc. establishing n dynamite plant
Bfnd beginning manufacturing at a com
(,aratively small scale. This plant was
k1hut down at the outbreak of the war
kLssn Europe. with the influx OF huge
srders for war munitions from Eng
Anand. France and Russia the Du Fonts
4tAame in for their share OF the business
GA nd the small dynamite plant was inn
enlarged and has been added
mo from time TO time until the plans
liz. ow calls for an industrial operation
PM huge proportions.
hipU PONT PLANT Is
1bs PERMANENT UNDERTAKING
f9h There are many things which sup
stjort the generally accepted view that
Tyne Du Pont plant is a permanent un-
AEertaking. The company has already
Epent approximately SIS. 900, and
eYith the completion of the sulphuric-
hucid PLAINTIFF largest in the world
she Du Pont investment will represent
8QSn outlay of something like $4,000. 900
f,us, machinery. buildings and construc-
kon labor
Y The money spent in building the
aeYlant comes out of the bonus which
tle company received in filling it's war
orders, amounting to millions and mil
e|ons. When this war in Europe is
/ Hyer-and no one thinks that the fight
phS Will stop until n year or more has
sfssed-the Du Pont plant at Hopewell
5till have been paid for and the over
SEsad charges for the manufacture OF
.lilphuric acid byproducts of cotton and
i SEher articles for which the machinery
Ii0ln be utilized will be reduced to n
minimum This fact is believed to-
1 Sssure Hopcwells future-war or no
EcGar.
,clAILROAD SPENDING IMMENSE
SUM IN DOUBLE TRACKING
= The Norfolk and Western Railway,
1tl PC controlling interest in which is
| Jose to the owners of the T.. J. du
ont de Nemours Powder Company. is
N bending 81 ,00O. 900 in double tracking
nd otherwise putting the City Point
canch In shape to handle the great
2,A;nount Of freight and passenger traffic
iii and out of Hopeweil and the Du Pont
\ liant. Capitalists are building an cleo
3,s Tic RAILWAY line from Petersburg TO
Itlopewell and men OF means. who
Bually know what they are doing, are
hISvesting their money in various enter
Naises.
jqH The territory covered by the Du
dEont company embraces 1900 acres in
iAuding it's reservations for residences
6OS3r It's officials and employees Hope
IJ, Eell Is spread out over moro than 500
|@rcs,in something of shoe-string style
eaErom City Point to the edge Of the
;, Erritory on which building operations
f'Ee now In progress on the Petersburg
Nae of Hopewell, the distance is an
J.. 1oximately six miles, with an aver
Efe width Of half mile. Bounded on
be De north by the Appomattox River
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