N&W in 1910--Dry Fork

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
February 23, 1910

DRY FORK TO FRONT
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New Coal Mines Being Opened--Line Into Buchanan County

    The Norfolk and Western will, it is understood, add another passenger train to its present service on the Dry Fork branch between Iaeger and Berwind.  That section has grown and is continually growing.  New coal mines have been opened and there are a few uncut timber tracts which are valuable.  If the Norfolk and Western gets into Buchanan county, it will likely leave Bradshaw, on the Dry Fork branch, as has been surveyed.  Some time ago the railroad had a force of men at work on that branch looking over a proposed route and it has been reported a number of times that the road is to commence development.  The New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company have a large plant on the line; the Yukon and War Creek Coal Company have also good sized plants while A. E. Litz, of Welch, and Colonel W. H. Thomas are interested in good sized plants along the line.  The Dry Fork branch will be a big producer in a few years, as coal can be shipped via the main line or via the Cedar Bluff extension, to make which possible the Norfolk and Western has recently let a contract for a tunnel 4,700 feet long.  This extension will connect the Pocahontas and Clinch Valley divisions.
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Gordon Hamilton
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