N&W in 1912--New railroad

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Thu., March 28, 1912

WILLIAMSON AND POND CREEK INCORPORATED
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Norfolk and Western Feeder Will Penetrate Rich Kentucky Coal Fields.

    A dispatch from Frankfort, Ky., tells of the filing of articles of incorporation for the Williamson & Pond Creek Railroad Company, of Ashland, Ky., with L. E. Johnson, Joseph I. Doran, William G. McDowell and Judge W. A Ginn, of Ashland, as incorporators. 
    Judge Ginn stated that the original articles of incorporation were filed with County Clerk Ed. S. Hughes, at Catlettsburg, on Monday, providing for the building of a railroad from Williamson, where it connects with the Norfolk and Western railroad, up Pond Creek a distance of eleven miles, arid Ashland was named in the articles of incorporation as the home of the corporation.
    A board of directors has been chosen consisting of L. E. Johnson, Roanoke, Joseph I. Doran, Philadelphia; N. D. Maher, Roanoke; George P. Johnson, Bluefield; Henry Brannon, Portsmouth, Ohio, and W. A, Ginn, Ashland, Ky.
    The road runs due south on Pond Creek and will terminate but a few miles from Elkhorn City, the present southern terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the point where the company will connect with the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio railway, a line which has Charleston, S. C , for its objective point in the south and has been building northward, for several years, having now reached a. point about thirty or forty miles south of Elkhorn City.
    This new road, the Williamson and Pond Creek railroad, will penetrate one of the best coal fields in Pike county, and will enable its connection, the Norfolk arid Western railway, to supply its patrons with. Kentucky coal and coke.
    This news foreshadows the entry of the Norfolk and Western railway into the Kentucky coal fields, and it will assist the Baltimore and Ohio and the Chesapeake and Ohio railways, both of which have established themselves in this region, and the Louisville and Nashville, which is being extended from the west, in developing the resources of the Sandy valley with the greatest undeveloped coal fields in the world.
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Gordon Hamilton
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