N&W in 1909--Diverse items

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
December 4, 1909

CAUGHT FISH WHILE TRAIN WAS DELAYED
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Capt. O'Connor Brings Fine String of Bass and Red Horse From the Clinch Valley

    Captain O'Connor, one of the well known conductors on the Clinch Valley, brought a very fine string of fish to Bluefield last night and presented them to Jake Rosenheim at the Windsor Hotel.  Among them was a two-pound bass and a number of "red horse," a well known species of fish in that sections.
    The captain tendered the information with much gusto and pride that he caught them while his train was delayed.  As his train arrived in this city on time his Bluefield friends are inclined to think that his fishing paraphernalia and bait was limited to the silver bait which he carried in his pocket book and which served as a happy medium between him and the Clinch river fishermen in offering a transfer of the finny tribe.
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NEW ROAD PROJECTED
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Two Routes From Bradshaw into Buchanan County Under Consideration

    The Clinch Valley field has continued to show an increase over the early months in the year and bids to close the year very well.  Next year should bring prosperity to that section.  A report has been circulated in railroad circles that the Norfolk and Western is considering the advisability of building a line from Bradshaw into Buchanan county so as to tap the great undeveloped territory in that county. Two routes are under consideration, one through the Knox Creek section and the other through the route which should give a good grade from Bradshaw.  The Bradshaw route would hardly connect up with Knox Creek as a ridge between the two points would prevent such connection except at great cost.
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[Bradshaw is on the N&W's present-day Dry Fork branch, and the line from there into Buchanan County was never built.  It would be some 22 years before the N&W would operate on the Buchanan Branch along Knox Creek in Buchanan County. This followed the taking over--and upgrading--of the narrow gauge Big Sandy and Cumberland (See Blackstock and Wilson's articles in the 2006 and 2007 issues of The Arrow.)].

Gordon Hamilton
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