Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Wiroa-Week-8 Title A name given to the resource This Week in Reconstruction, February 22-28, 1871 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Megan Wiora Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 22-28, 1871 Description An account of the resource The battle of state pride and sovereignty, something that Virginia has felt robbed of since rejoining the Union, resurfaced this week, for the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company is attempting to control railroad lines in Virginia and other regions in the South. Even though most Virginians view Reconstruction as finished, this railroad war that shows power struggles between the North and the South post-unification. The Pennsylvania company wants to control the road between Richmond and Washington, which would create great profits for the Virginia company in Richmond if they had control over it. The disagreement was taken to court, where The Fredericksburg, Richmond and Potomac Company was given rights to build the rail from Alexandria to Richmond. Although this was a victorious motion for Virginia, it created further resentment against the North and further feelings of feeling controlled. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Early in the winter there was presented in the Dispatch a series of sketches of some of the departments of manufactures in which Richmond capital is invested, and by which Richmond labor is employed. In this manner we noticed all of our largest establishments in the iron and agricultural implement business, and called, attention not only to the variety of manufacturing interests in which our people are engaged, but placed on record at the same time some interesting tacts showing the immense, increase in the value of the product of our factories.'This morning we propose a mere mention of a few manufacturing establishments, which, although they do not employ so many hands or consume so much capital, deserve mention as showing the variety in our manufacturing enterprises, the ingenuity and energy of our mechanics, and as they are eminently successful, may encourage others to embark in similar undertakings, not only for their own pecuniary advantage, but for the building up of the city.'FURNITURE FACTORY.'The large and well-known warehouse formerly occupied by Ludlam & Watson, Rocketts, has been within the past few months fitted up for manufacturing purposes, and now presents a scene of busy industry. It is now occupied by the Furniture Works of Garrett F. Watson. The main building is 50 feet in width and 150 in depth, and four stories high. The establishment employs fifty hands, and the capital invested is about $100,000. Besides the building above named there'are connected with these works two lumber-yards of considerable dimensions, a'saw-mill, and a machine-shop, in which is made all the iron-work needed in the manufacture of furniture and for keeping the machinery in order. When the works are in complete order the yearly value of the products is about $150,000. The market is found in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and the Southern States, and Richmond furniture Is sold anywhere at remunerative rates, though competing with that of northern make. The machinery at Watson's is of the latest and most approved patterns, and consists in part of three planes and seven turning-lathes, for the chair and bedstead departments; twelve band or endless and scroll-saws, which cut the rough material into any shape desired; and ten morticing, moulding, and tenoning machines. Five'or six other machines are now in course of construction, which will make the establishment one of the most complete of the kind in the country. The building is heated by steam, which is also the motive power. The consumption of lumber is over 1,000,000 of feet a year.'Mr. Watson has recently rented that large and commodious house now building on 10th street, between Main and Cary, (owned by Paul Bargamin,) and will as soon as possible take possession and occupy the lower floor as an office, while the upper floors will be used as warerooms.'SASSAFRAS OIL FACTORY.'Immediately in the rear of the furniture'works just described two intelligent and'enterprising colored men have established'what is known as the Sassafras Factory. The style of the firm is Demortie & Co., and consists of M, R. Demortie, born in Virginia, but educated in the North, and'Benjamin Deshields, of New Jersey. They'occupy a large framed building, and have'an engine and boiler of about sixteen-horse'power, and an improved cutting-machine of their own design, made by H. M. Smith'& Co., of this city, and a styll holding 3,200 gallons. In the manufacture of'the sassafras oil the stump and root of'the sassafras tree is used, and they consume about 30,000 pounds a week, at a cost'of 30 cents a hundred weight. The bulk of'the sassafras manipulated in this factory is'brought from Chesterfield county, and the gathering of it gives employment to many'persons of both colors; and as the tree is a'pest to the farmers, they afford all facilities'necessary to the gatherers of this root of'many evils.'Messrs. Demortie & Co. pay out a large amount of money in the purchase of raw'material, in sums varying from 75c. up to'$20, and sonic days to as many as fifty persons.'The proof of the oil manufactured in this'establishment is from 10c to 12c higher than'the average of most other manufactories,'and is readily sold in the northern markets'at 90c. per pound. These enterprising colored men have set'an example in the way of manufactures'which we would like to see followed, not'only by their own race, but by more of our white population.'WOODEN-WAKE MANUFACTORY.'In the lower part of the Libby building'Messrs. Kirkpatrick & Co. have established'a wooden-ware manufactory. They now'make about three hundred buckets and'pails per day, but will in a short time be'able to turn out about a thousand. They'have in use a forty horse-power engine and'seventy horse boiler, with a complete outfit'of machinery. Their buckets and pails are'sold in different parts of the country, and'especially in the northern cities, where they'are brought into successful competition'with northern manufactories.'Most of the timber used in this establishment is cypress, and is brought from the'Dismal Swamp, near Norfolk, and discharged from the vessels at the door of the'factory.'These enterprising gentlemen have put'up machinery tor making nearly everything'which enters into the composition of the'bucket. They take the green logs in lengths'of five feet, and ten to fifteen inches in circumference, and then saw them into blocks'of proper length, split into two or more'parts, according to thickness required, and'then they are sawed into staves and taken'into the dry-house, where they are thoroughly seasoned in four or five days. After 'this they are carried to what is called a'jointing saw, where each stave is made to'tit with perfect accuracy; then to the cutting-off'saw, where each stave is made a uniform length 5 and then to the matcher,'where one side of the stave is tongued'and the other grooved. The next process'is to form the bucket Into shape on'the setting-up-irons, and thence to the'turning-lathe, where it is turned on the'outside and one of the hoops put on by an'ingeniously-contrived machine; from thence'to the inside turner, who finishes the bucket'on the inside; and from thence to the finishing-room,'where the bottom of the'bucket is inserted and the other hoops put'on. The whole operation of manufacturing a bucket only occupies two and a half'minutes. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18710225&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------# Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1871-02-25 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context WioraMegan-18710225-RichmondManufacturers-Furniture-SassafrasBuckets.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource Richmond Manufacturers: Furniture-Sassafras Buckets