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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>February 28,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>IN CITY AND COALFIELD</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Will Lay Track</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Tracklaying will begin on March 15th on the
line of railway being constructed by the Virginian up Winding Gulf from
Mullins. The work on this feeder is being pushed rapidly.</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Work Begins at Once</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> The Norfolk and Western Railway has awarded a
contract for the construction of a line up Barber Creek in Wyoming county.
The contractors will begin work at Herndon in a few days.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>Can anyone shed any light on the N&W item? There
seem to be several discrepancies. Herndon is 7.9 miles <U>west</U> of
Clarks Gap whereas all indications are that the Left Fork of the N&W's
Bluestone-Widemouth branch ended on the <U>east</U> side of Clarks Gap at the
Algonquin Coal Co. mine at Lamar. The N&W's proposed Guyandot and
Tug River Railroad first mentioned in the 1903 Annual Report to connect Clarks
Gap and Warncliffe would have bypassed Herndon by following Beartown Creek and
Pinnacle Creek to the Guyandot River so the construction in the article could
not have been part of the G&TR. I could not locate a <U>Barber</U>
Creek, but downstream from Herndon there is a <U>Bakers</U> Creek that flows
into the Guyandot at Elmore. The stream through Herndon that flows into
Barkers Creek has the intriguing name, Looney Otter Creek.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>