<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I drove through Cairo some years back - almost a ghost town today.<div><br></div><div>pete groom<br><div><div>On Feb 18, 2009, at 8:29 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<br>March 28, 1909</font></div><div> </div><div align="center"><font size="4">CALLED TO NEW ROAD</font></div><div align="center">------</div><div align="center"><strong>Roanoke Civil Engineer on the Cairo and Norfolk Railway</strong></div><div align="left"><strong></strong> </div><div align="left"> Roanoke World: W. B. Hooker, a well known civil engineer, has received a telegram requesting him to report at Mayfield, to begin the survey for the proposed Cairo and Norfolk railroad. The work of surveying two sections of the road from Cairo, Ill., to Bowling Green, Ky., is to begin at once.</div><div align="left"> It is planned to build these two sections at once, and after that the road will run through the southwest via Roanoke to Norfolk.</div><div align="left"> Letters have been received here from Mr. Goode stating that the road would be built through the southwest counties which are at present undeveloped and then come to Roanoke.</div><div align="left"> Mr. Hooker, who will have charge of the survey on one section, was for a long time connected with the Norfolk and Western.</div><div align="center">------</div><div align="left">[<em>In a May 6, 1908, article posted here Sep. 8, 2008, Mr. Goode was identified as president of the C&N--, obviously not the immediate past president of NS. "Mayfield" is almost certainly the town in Kentucky southeast of Cairo, IL and west of Bowling Green.</em>]</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><font face="Script" size="6">Gordon Hamilton</font></div>________________________________________<br><a href="mailto:NW-Mailing-List@nwhs.org">NW-Mailing-List@nwhs.org</a><br>To change your subscription go to<br><a href="http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list">http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list</a><br>Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at<br><a href="http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/">http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>