From the Richmond Dispatch, 10/15/1897, p. 4, c. 3
The Tredegar Company made its first shipment of projectiles yesterday under its contract with the government. Its work has been carefully inspected by army officers and pronounced first class.
With the Tredegar, the Locomotive Works, and the Old Dominion Iron- and Nail-Works all tolerably busy, the outlook for the iron trade in this city seems better than in a long time past.