N&W in 1910--Double track

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
February 2, 1910

SEVENTY-FIVE MILES OF DOUBLE TRACK
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Bids Opened at Roanoke And Who GetsContracts Will Not be Known For Several Days

    Roanoke, Va., Feb. 1--Bids were opened today by Chief Engineer Chas. S. Churchill of the Norfolk and Western for the construction of about seventy-five miles of double track in West Virginia and Ohio, and the construction of a 4, 700 foot tunnel on the branch line from Bluff City, Va., to Iaeger, W. Va., and a number of large railroad contractors are in the city looking after their interests.
    The bids were on building double track at the following points:
    In West Virginian:  Vivian to Huger, five and a half miles, Wyoming to Alnwick, three miles, milepost 27 1-2 to milepost 44 1-2 [On the Big Sandy Low Grade Line?], seven miles.  A total distance of thirteen and a half miles [Fifteen and a half miles?]
    In Ohio: From Rock to Williamsburg, thirteen miles.
    From Davis to Waverly, twenty-three miles.
    From Renick to Delano, six miles.
    From Gregg to Cromley, eight miles.  A total in Ohio of fifty-three miles [Fifty miles?].
    Among the prominent contractors represented at the opening of the bids were the Luck Construction Company; Mason, Hanger & Coleman; Peroell & Sheehan; Samuel Walton and John T. McKinney.
    It will require several days to tabulate the bids and arrive at a conclusion as to who will be awarded the various contracts.
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[Some of the proper names were indistinct on the microfilm so the best interpretations are shown.]

Gordon Hamilton
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