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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>June 19,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>WILL BUILD ELECTRIC RAILWAY TO
COALFIELDS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Trolly </STRONG>[<EM>sic</EM>]<STRONG> Line Also to
Connect Farming Sections of Lee and Wise Counties</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> W. G. Coutts, a member of the new industries
committee of the board of trade of Big Stone Gap, has gone to Goderich, Ontario,
where he goes to investigate the workings of an immense electric and water power
scheme that is being put through there to glean information to be used in
developing the water power of this section.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> While in Canada Mr. Coutts will visit A. McD.
Allen [<EM>With initials like that this had to be a Scotsman named Angus
McDonald Allen</EM>]<EM>,</EM> a prominent electric line and industrial
promoter, of Toronto, who has been successful in building important lines in
that country, and will prevail on him to visit the Big Stone Gap section and
give advice on a proposed electric line connecting the farming sections of Lee
county and the Wise coalfields with a line between Jonesville and Big Stone Gap
with extensions to Stonga and Norton and branches to the most important
operations en route.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>