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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>April 22,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>VIRGINIAN REPAIR SHOPS AT PRINCETON</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Will be on Smaller Scale Than Those at Victoria, Where
Most of Heavy Work Will be Done</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Since President Rogers' trip over the
Virginian it has been given out authoritatively that Victoria, Va., will get the
repair shops of this new road; that plans are now being prepared and ground will
be broken within the next couple of weeks for the erection of shops costing in
the neighborhood of $150,000. These buildings will be constructed of
brick, stone and steel, and like all of the construction work of the Virginian
railway will be of the very best class.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Princeton is also to have shops, but these
will be built on a much smaller scale to take care of the equipment on the
extreme western end of the road, and as there will be a great many branch lines
leading out of Princeton and the coal fields it is necessary for some shops to
be placed at that point, but the heavy repairs and rebuilding, it is understood,
will be at the main shop at Victoria.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>Either the authoritative source was wrong or else the
Virginian changed its mind about the location of its main shops.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>