N&W in 1912--Three items: Tonnage, Foreman, Killed

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
April 11, 1912

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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Will Increase Tonnage
    The Norfolk and Western has awarded a contract to Boxley & Co., to grade that portion of the south fork of the Tug River branch which will connect the present Tug Fork branch with the new mines to be opened by the Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Co. The mining concern has driven its entries in over 300 feet, and will commence shipments as soon as the rails are laid to the mines so that cars can be loaded. The opening of these two mines, together with the tonnage to be secured from the old Cirrus plant, recently acquired by the Consolidated, will considerably increase the tonnage mined by the concern. The output is handled by. the Pocahontas Fuel Company, which at. this time is buying coal in the field to supply orders.
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New Night Foreman
    R. G. Henley, night foreman at the Williamson round house, has been promoted to the night foremanship at the local roundhouse, succeeding T. H. Adams, transferred to Roanoke in a minor position. E. J. Nunan, formerly night round house foreman, has been made foreman at Radford.
[Sounds as though Adams was downgraded.  Henley must have done things right because he rose to become Superintendent Motive Power in 1928, General Superintendent Motive Power in 1940, retiring in 1953 to be replaced by C. E. Pond.]
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Killed on Railway Track
    Overcome by the effects of a death blow given him by John Barleycorn, J. W. Jarrir [spelling? blurred], colored, lay down on the railroad track near Hemphill yesterday morning and was killed.  The man was evidently on his way home when the desire to sleep off the night's jag came over him.
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Gordon Hamilton

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