CC&O in 1910--Dumps Creek

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
January 18, 1910

COMPLETE NEW LINE BY FIRST OF MARCH
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Dumps Creek Extension Will Reach Coal Mines That Have Already Been Opened

    The Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway has moved a derrick car to Kiser, Va., where it is to be used in the construction of a bridge across the Clinch River.  The extension from Kiser is the well known Dumps Creek extension and when finished, which will be about the first of March, it will be about five miles long and will have about two miles of branches.  It is expected that the bridge will be completed by the tenth of February. It will be about 200 feet long.  The Dumps Creek extension will open the coal on Dumps Creek where a number of openings have been made but cannot be developed until the railroad is ready for traffic.  Houses, commissary and other improvements necessary to the working of the coal have been erected, and it was learned here last night that the story about work being stopped on the extension is untrue.  The contractors were merely moved to another part of the road so that they could be working to advantage while the bridge was arriving.  It is the general opinion of the people in and around Dante that the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio will go up Guest creek near Coeburn and from there will go over to Crane's Nest, where the company is already operating a mine and where it owns a great deal of coal which is being operated by the Clinchfield Coal Corporation.
    Speculation is rampant among the people in and around Dante about who will be Winder's successor.  At present his work is being taken care of by Mr. Potter, the chairman of the board of directors of the road and the mining company.  The people all seem to want to have Mr. Roan remain at Dante as they have a great deal of confidence in him and a great deal of respect for him.  What will be done is more or less guess work at this time.

[Apparently the readers were expected to know who Winder, Potter and Roan were.  Also, as commented on in a 6/19/09 posting headed "N&W in 1909--New Branch," Kiser became Carbo, and the CC&O Dumps Creek line became the N&W's Dumps Creek branch in 1956.]

Gordon Hamilton
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