Feb 21, 1907

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RAILROAD NOTES

Bristol, Va. Feb 21 -- It became known here recently that Bristol 
will be the southeastern terminus of a railroad which is to be built 
from Fullerton, Ky., on the Chesapeake & Ohio, through eight Eastern 
Kentucky counties to the Virginia-Kentucky border and on to Bristol. 
The new road will be known as the Kentucky North & South Railway, and 
it is said to be backed by wealthy Eastern capitalists, whose names 
have not been divulged.
   Representatives of the company are now said to be engaged in 
procuring rights of way for the new road along the proposed route, 
and it is announced that actual construction work will begin in the 
spring. Preparations have already been made to protect a number of 
strategic points and coveted rights of way.
   The new road will be 200 miles in length and will penetrate the 
rich mineral and timber sections of Eastern Kentucky and Southwest 
Virginia, opening up a wide area of hitherto inaccessible mineral and 
timer lands, believed to be of boundless wealth.