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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>May 2,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>ELECTRIC LINE FROM RICH CREEK TO
RONCEVERTE</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Will Connect Virginian With Chesapeake and Ohio and
Traverse Rich Farming Country</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> A project is on foot to build an electric
railway from Ronceverte to Rich Creek. In case this plan materializes the
Virginian and Chesapeake and Ohio railways will be connected and a large and
prosperous farming community given transportation facilities. The route
proposed will put this road through Peterstown, Sweet Springs and Union.
Isaac T. Mann [<EM>of Itmann, WV, fame</EM>] is said to be closely identified
with the people who are backing the enterprise. His cousin, B. F. Mann, of
Fort Spring, has bought land on Second Creek, in Monroe county, at a point where
the fall of the stream is sufficient to insure power enough to supply the wires
of the new road. It is understood that three large dams will be built on
this creek and as many power plants installed.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>This is</EM> a<EM>nother example of the many
electric railways promoted, but never built. There was,
however, a little-known electric railway between Ronceverte and Lewisburg,
WV that interchanged with the C&O at Ronceverte. See the attached
picture. For those interested in town names, Ronceverte is in
Greenbrier County, WV, and Ronceverte is French for Greenbrier.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>