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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>June 30,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>ASK FOR BIDS DURING THE MONTH OF
JULY</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Winston-Salem, N. C., June 29--Bids
will be asked for and considered during the month of July for the immediate
construction of the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway. Captain O. H.
P.Cornell, chief engineer of the company, was yesterday authorized by the board
of directors, in session in the Wachovia Loan and Trust Company's building to
call for bids, and it is hoped that within a twelve-month the road will be
nearly, if not entirely completed.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The Norfolk and Western will have active
charge of the construction work. Chief Engineer C. S. Churchill of the
Norfolk and Western was present at the meeting yesterday. He stated that
he had been over the plans of the road and found them to be all right, with the
exception of possibly a few minor details, which could be straightened out with
very little trouble. Captain Cornell and Mr. Churchill submitted a list of
contractors who have been doing work for the Norfolk and Western, and these will
be invited to submit bids.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> President Fries, in calling the meeting to
order, said that he had called the directors together to confirm the highly
satisfactory statement that the road is now an assured fact. He told of
the negotiations that had been pending for several months between him and
officials of the Norfolk and Western and Atlantic Coast Line and of how these
negotiations had been brought to a successful consummation Friday.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Mr. Fries received a telegram Friday to the
effect that the arrangements had been made for the money, but despite the
urgings of the local newspaper men, he had not released the story for
publication, because he felt it his duty to report to the directors, and he was
unable to get the directors together until yesterday.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Mr. Fries went on to say that the road would
be built promptly, of the very best material and put in operation with first
class equipment. Indeed this is necessary because of the heavy traffic
that will be carried over the road.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>I made a trip over the WSS the summer of 1954 as a
short-boom operator on the N&W's week spray train. We sprayed the
entire WSS line from Winston-Salem to Wadesboro.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>