Deepwater in 1907 -- Mercer County, WV

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    Work on the Deepwater railway between Oakvale and Rock is being pushed with renewed energy.  Twenty-five hundred men are employed on this stretch, and they are being worked in double shifts--night and day.  It is the intention of the contractors to have this part of the road completed within five months.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
January 23, 1907

[Imagine the logistics of feeding and housing  2,500 men in the rugged terrain between these two points.]

Gordon Hamilton
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