N&W in 1910--Lumber road

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
November 15, 1910

SURVEYING ROUTE FOR PROPOSED NEW RAILROAD
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Shamokin Lumber Company May Build Eight or Ten Mile Line in Tazewell County
    The Shamokin Lumber company is surveying a railroad from Beartown in Tazewell county, near Mr. Simpson's property, northwest to and through W. G. Doak's farm on Rich mountain, then through A. B. Buchanan's farm to S. T. Witten's at Pisgah, where it will connect with the Norfolk and Western.  The line will be about eight or ten miles long if it is built and will open up about five or six thousand acres of timber.  The main object is to reach a tract of 1,500 to 2,000 acres of balsam and spruce owned by the Shamokin Lumber company, which was purchased by them three or four years ago from Davis and Moss.
    It is reported on good authority that the balsam alone will run 90,000 feet to the acre. If this standard is kept up all over the property, which is doubtful, the company will have an enormous cut before it.
    It is learned that the people through whose farms the railroad is to go have given the right-of-way so that the country might be properly developed.  The railroad, although short, will open up a handsome valley and should enable the people of that rich and prosperous farming county to get their produce to market.
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Gordon Hamilton
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