ADAMS, PAYNE & GLEAVES
A Leading Industrial Establishment of Roanoke, which
has been a Most Important Factor in the Progress
of the City
Among the various enterprises of Roanoke which
stand out prominently in the industrial development
of the city, there is none which takes higher rank than
the firm whose name captions this article. For a
long term of years, the men who are identified with
this concern have been connected with the upbuild-ing
of Lynchburg and in 1906 began the operation
of their various plants in Roanoke, adopting as a
slogan "Everything for building, but hardware." This
firm is engaged in the manufacture of brick of the best
commercial varieties, the capacity of their present
plant being forty thousand daily. They have now
under construction a new brick plant which will turn
out an additional eighty thousand bricks per day.
The present planing mill of this progressive firm
located on Walnut Avenue, Southeast, was found to
be entirely inadequate for their increasing business and
they are now building a modern, fireproof planing mill
on South Jefferson Street, which will be the equal of
the most modern in the country, and the installation
of the new up-to-date machinery will largely increase
the facilities of this already large and important
industrial establishment. The Lumber Yards carry,
ordinarily, from two to three million feet of lumber,
and in the warehouse every form of plaster and cement
used in building operations is carried in stock. This
warehouse has a floor area of forty thousand square
feet or nearly one acre. All stock sizes of sash, doors,
columns, and blinds are carried, as well as metal
laths and reönforcing material for concrete construction.
