Dora, Crozier, Radford, Salem, Beuna Vista Furnaces: Quid est?

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On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 7:32 PM,
​abram
 wrote:

What became of the blast furnaces at Dora, Crozier, Salem, Beuna Vista & ?
>
> The first attached PDF, lifted from the 1902 Moody's Manual of Corporation
> Securities, shows that they were all aquired in 1899 by a company called
> Virginia Iron Coal & Coke, headquartered in Bristol. Interestingly CI&C
> also had control of the Virginia & Southwestern RR at Bristol.
>

​The Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Company had a lot to do with the
development of the Potts Valley branch and its eventual demise. The Big
Stony Railway was purchased by the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1905,
which then chartered the Interior and West Virginia Railroad in West
Virginia to build a rail line from the end of the Big Stony through Monroe
County, West Virginia, to the state line at Craig County, Virginia. This
17.5-mile line would then connect with the Virginia and Potts Creek
Railroad. This line was chartered to build a line extending 11 miles to the
Potts Creek Post Office, near Paint Bank, Virginia.​ VIC&C had extensive
holdings along the line and shipped iron ore to its furnaces for
processing. The same held true for the North Carolina Branch, although part
of its origins was to build another line to the south connecting with the
Cape Fear and Yadkin railroad south of Galax. But there were extensive ore
fields in the area that were also tapped by the line.

The discovery of a better grade of iron ore in Minnesota with cheap
delivery via ships on the Great Lakes, plus the faster growth of the steel
industry in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and other lake cities, pretty much did
in the Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Co.

​The company records are at Radford University:
http://monk.radford.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/VICC

Stephen Warren has been digging into the history of the Rorer Mining
Company, which mined ore near Roanoke and moved it via a narrow-gauge
railroad. See
http://lostpagespress.com/2016/riding-the-narrow-gauge-rails-of-rorer-iron-company/

Bruce in Blacksburg
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