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<DIV><FONT size=4>Gordon this is very interesting rumor. If my history is
correct the Norfolk Southern (original) sucessor to Norfolk and Southern wound
up in the Southern fold. Do you have any more history on this? Cal
Reynolds.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 10, 2009 8:24
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> N&W in 1909--N&S</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>July 17,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>NEW COAL OUTLET</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Rumored That Norfolk and Western Will Purchase
Norfolk and Southern</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> The report that the Norfolk and Western
railroad is expected to purchase the Norfolk and Southern, is received in the
general office at Roanoke with considerable incredulity. If the
report is true, it certainly has not originated in Roanoke. Norfolk and
Western people are inclined to regard the rumor as altogether baseless.
They are unable to comprehend how their road would be benefited by such a
deal.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The signing of the ancillary order by Judge
H. G. Conner, of the Eastern Carolina United States district court for the
foreclosure sale of the Norfolk and Southern railroad, in the hands of
receivers, has given renewed impetus to talk that the Norfolk and Western with
principal North Carolina holdings, the Atlantic and North Carolina, and the
Raleigh and Pamlico Sound roads, will pass into the hands of the Norfolk and
Western. It is pointed out that under the North Carolina laws neither
the Southern nor the Seaboard Air Line could be a bidder, and the Atlantic
Coast Line would scarcely be a bidder. On the other hand, it is claimed
that there are a number of reasons, it is claimed, why the Norfolk and Western
would want this property. By constructing a link from Raleigh to Durham,
these rumor manipulators say, a new through line outlet for the Norfolk and
Western coal traffic would be established, covering a large part of eastern
Carolina that would otherwise be invaded by the Seaboard Air Line and
Clinchfield road, a coal carrying combination just looming up as one of the
great coal combinations of the country.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
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