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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>March 10,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>FIRST CAR OF COAL OVER THE VIRGINIAN</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Reached Norfolk Yesterday Afternoon--Officials Confer
Relative to Tariff</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Norfolk Landmark: The first carload of
coal shipped by the Chesapeake and Ohio coal and coke Company over the entire
line of the Virginian Railway will arrive in Norfolk tomorrow morning. The
contents of the car are consigned to the National Bank of Commerce, and will be
used in furnishing heat and power for Norfolk's principal skyscraper.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Mr. W. T. Anderson, local representative of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Company, which will handle most of the coal that will be
transported from West Virginian to tidewater via the Virginian, said last night
that Mr. Charles M. Barnett formerly of Norfolk, new president of the coal
company, will arrive here this afternoon. Mr. Barnett's visit will be for
the purpose of conferring with Mr. Anderson and officials of the Virginian
relative to the coal traffic via that railroad.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The car that is to arrive here tomorrow
started from Deepwater, West Virginia, the western terminus of the Virginian's
system, which extends a distance of 442 miles from Deepwater to Sewell's Point,
where the vast shipping piers are located. The car bears a banner thirty
feet long and six feet wide bearing the name of the consignors and consignees of
its contents.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>Has anyone seen a picture of this car with the thirty foot
by six foot banner?</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>