Ted,
The report I quoted from above does say that the plant (by 1910 anyway) was permanently closed.
Shawn's article points out also that the plant was known for producing plug tobacco. Although apparently there was a small bit of leeway, the Internal Revenue Bureau had established regulations that prohibited different types of tobacco manufacture from occurring on the same premises, seemingly because it was too difficult to track revenue due on tobacco when various kinds of manufacturing were occurring under one roof. The factory numbering system was one way of ensuring that the government knew what was being made where. Factory 25 in Richmond, as a cigar and cigarette factory, was permitted to produce cigars, cigarettes, cheroots, and little cigars, but any leftover scraps that ended up as another form of tobacco had to be manufactured and packaged in that other form in another factory. The same was true through the Trust.
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