N&W in 1907 -- Spice Creek Branch

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IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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    S. H. Meem, engineer in charge, is authority for the statement that the Premier Pocahontas Collieries Company will construct a railroad from Roderfield on the Norfolk and Western railway, up Spice creek, a distance of four and one-half miles, to develop 4,000 [blurred; could be 1,000] acres of Pocahontas coal.  Four coal operations will be established.  Norfolk and Western equipment will be used.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
August 31, 1907

[The Website http://www.state.wv.us/mhst/coresults.cfm?company=Premier%2DPocahontas%20Coll%27s%20Co
shows the initial tonnage of this company was in 1909 and the final tonnage in 1953.]

Gordon Hamilton
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