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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>April 4,
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>Railroad to Rocky Gap</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Right-of-way has been secured from Day's, in
Giles county, to Rocky Gap, in Bland county [<EM>both in
Virginia</EM>]<EM>,</EM> for a new railroad that already runs from the Norfolk
and Western, at the mouth of Wolf Creek, to Day's. Work on the extension
will begin soon and the people of Rocky Gap are greatly elated over the prospect
of having railroad communication with the outside world. [<EM>This was the
New River, Holston and Western RR, later the Narrows Branch of the
N&W.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Brotherhood Chairman Here</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> A. M. Cousins, of Norfolk, Chairman of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of the Norfolk and Western, was in the city
yesterday on official business.</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Bluefield Inn Sale</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> The furniture and equipment of Bluefield Inn
was sold at public auction yesterday and many attended the sale throughout the
day. The silver and some of the furniture and carpets were shipped to
Roanoke where they will be overhauled and placed in other hotels of the company
[<EM>N&W</EM>]. The Inn has been here as long as the town almost, and
many of the inhabitants and the men on the road will miss it when it has become
a full fledged office building [<EM>Division offices for the
N&W.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>