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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>May 20,
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>Charter for Railway Line</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Secretary of State Reed has issued a charter
to the Hinton Street Car and Transportation company, of Hinton, to build a line
from Hinton via Union, Avis and Red Sulphur Springs to the Norfolk and Western
and Virginian railways at the mouth of East river <EM>[Glen Lyn,
VA</EM>]<EM>,</EM> Mercer county. Capital stock $50,000, incorporators,
James T. McCreery, W. H. Sawyers and others of Hinton.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>Union is a long ways off a direct line from Hinton to Rich
Creek and Glen Lyn. I hope none of your ancestors invested in this
scheme.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>