The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-05
RICHMOND'S INDUSTRIAL
ADVANCEMENT MARKED
City Occupies Particularly Favorable Position In Manu-
featuring Says Widely Circulated Industrial Publication
Opportunity Here Tor Great Steel Plant Is Pointed Out

Richmond's advancement In recent
years has been very marked, ana IT.
growth In commerce and industry IL
based largely upon its development
OF the rich resources OF the surround
Ing country and the attention given to
10 manufacturing, sAys = writer IN
the current issue Of the Aanufactu-
rers' Record. OF Baltimore. What
Richmond has accomplished In recent
years, ~ the writer $500 the devei-
opment. Ia presented In the following:
A visit TO the mAnufacturerf exhibit
OF tho Chamber OF Commerce may not
Be Ia the nature Of . revelation to
those most familiar with what Rich
mond has besn doing In the past ten
or fifteen years. but 70 any thought
ful observer the showing u remark
Of this accomplishment, and the idea
ought to b adopted BY many other
cities In the South with nothing like
Hichmon6s population and -imoor-
tAnc0.
In ! number Of respects Richmond
occupies . PARTICULARS favorable po-
sttion In manufacturing. II has very
large plants for the manufacture OF
navoring extracts. blotting paper. bak-
ing powder, meat Juice: there are
thriving industries In Woodworking.
pAper-hox making. fiour milling. shoe
manufacturing and such widely sepa-
rated lines - the building OF iocomo-
tives and the bottling OF pickieA The
fertilizer plants are important
Raw materials ara close At hand
and can be delivered In Richmond ut
low cost. Coal II secured from the
KAnawha and New River fields over
the Chesapeake ard Ohio Railway.
The Virginia iron ore nelds are ex-
tensive; the output 10 Of q good grade
and easily worked. An the demand
becomes greater the ore fields viii be
drawn upon for . much LARGER supply
than they have heretofore furnished:
the supply II ample for all needs pres
hs delivered In Richmond (. o. b. the
plant whore it in needed tor $3.50 =
ton or better.
IN furthering the development Of
Richmond's manufactures the Kappa
hammock Land and Development Cor
poration II offering free sites for in
dustries adjacent to the city and along
tho line Of the Richmond and Kappa
hammock River Railway Sound en-
terprises requiring additional capital
can be given assistance also in . IMAM
ciai way. One branch Of tho road
runs to Seven Pines. the main line ex-
tending to Pamunkey, Va, = distance
OF 4 little over sixteen miles from
Richmond. where the city terminus
and local oflces arc located 1T TWEEN.
ty-ninth and p Streets. The pans
provide for . considerable extension
of the railway. with m ultimate tor
minus at some point on tidewater. At
present there ID direct connection with
the lines OF the Chesapeake and Ohio,
affording ample shipping connections
with tidewater and with tho West.
In going over the lime one canno
fall to be favorab1y Impressed from =
physical standpoint with the ch4rAc-
ter Of the country through which II
runs. It possesses distinct possibilities
as 4 suburban development, but Ahis
feature has. ~ = matter OF fact. not
yet been definitely considered BY the
management The country 10 rolling.
we'll cultivated, traversed BY rood
roads, and imprcsses the observer first
OF all AZ worth while land agriculfu-
rally. 1t 10. From Gaines Mill to
tho Cola Harbor section and beyond
to the PAmunkey River the country II
famous for it, trucking prcducts.s
which arc grown In great variety and
large quantity. Sweet potatoes, Irish
potatoAs, cabbage, tomatoes. lettuce,
watermelons, beams and h1ack-eyed
peas ma : GOOD market III Richmond
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