THE LEAKSVILLE MILLS 
Sixty-three years ago Gov. Jno. M. Morehead established the Leaks- 
ville Mills, and for more than three-score years they have served their 
patrons and friends, spinning and weaving their cotton, carding their 
wool into rolls, grinding their corn and wheat, pressing the oil from their 
flax-seed, sawing their timber, and converting their lumber into various 
forms of finished products. Through this long period they have shared 
the good and bad fortunes of their friends, and have kept pace with their 
changing wants, tastes, and requirements. To more effectually do this, 
since 1881 very large expenditures have been made to establish and com¬ 
plete The Leaksville Woolen Mills. The success resulting from the care¬ 
ful supervision of every detail of this new branch of business has been 
exceedingly gratifying. Their experience during the past has been that 
when times are hard, people wear More Leaksville Cloth; when times are 
good more people wear Leaksville cloth, and to more promptly meet the 
wants of the rapidly increasing patrons, further additions are being made 
to the producing capacity of the Mills. 
For two generations the honored name of Morehead has been asso¬ 
ciated with the manufacturing interests at Leaksville, Jno. M. Morehead, 
Treasurer of the Leaksville Woolen Mills, being a grandson of Governor 
Morehead. The President of the Company, a native of North Carolina, has 
been associated with the institution since its incorporation and was its former 
Secretary. The present management enter upon this new era of enlargement 
and increased facilities with the experience of the past added to a determina¬ 
tion to maintain the growing popularity of these well-known Mills, by 
keeping their products well up to their high standard of excellence. 
M. J. Tyler, who has been, for a number of years, the general manager 
of our mills is a native Virginian and has had forty years of experience in 
the manufacture of wool. 
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