RICHLAND BOTTLING WORKS
The Richlands Ice Corporation was incorporated on March 7, 1906 with E. V. Spatts, of Tazewell, VA, as President, Jason H. Gillespie, of Cedar Bluff, VA, as Vice President, M. M. Hankins as Treasurer, and W. B. Spratt as Secretary, both of Richlands, VA. The expressed purposes of the company is to "manufacture and sell Ice and Soda Pop" This of course places a company operating at the appropriate time period and using a similar naming style as the bottle shown below, granted the s has been dropped off of the name; however, manufacturing flaws such as that are common especially with a new company. While I have no absolute proof that this bottle belongs to this company, or what it's connection may be to the Clinch Valley Bottling Company which either was a contemporary or a predecessor to this company, the circumstantial evidence seems to point in that direction.
