N&W in 1908 -- Business thru Graham

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That's a jewel!

pete groom
On Oct 5, 2008, at 6:06 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> August 30, 1908

>

> THE GRAHAM DAILY NEWS

> ------

> Business Picking Up

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>     Business on the Norfolk & Western through Graham during the past  

> week was the heaviest since the first flurry of the financial  

> depression last fall, and almost double what it has been for any  

> previous week during the summer.  Heavy coal trains from the Flat  

> Top field passed the tower every few minutes during the afternoons  

> and in the mornings long trains of empties were sent into Elkhorn  

> and Widemouth districts.  Business on the Clinch is also improving  

> and from the number of miners and laborers that are returning to  

> work at the operations all along the line it is believed the  

> shipments from Southwest Virginia will within a few weeks again have  

> reached the old high standard of prosperity during 1907.

>     Practically all of the extra railroad men have been given  

> employment, and positions in certain branches of the service are  

> open to new men.  All of those now employed are making good time and  

> receiving good wages.

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> [The attached photo from the Va Tech image database is identified as  

> the tower mentioned above.]

>

> Gordon Hamilton<GrahamTower.jpg>

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