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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>July 30,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>EXTEND IAEGER SOUTHERN</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Norfolk and Western Plans Connection With Clinch
Valley Division at Tazewell</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> There is an officially unconfirmed report in
circulation that the Norfolk & Western intends extending the Iaeger Southern
branch to a connection with the Clinch Valley division at or near
Tazewell. This would precipitate the building of stretch of road from the
vicinity of Berwind, a distance of some fifteen or twenty miles, but is argued
that it would save a haulage from the Berwind district for eastern coal
shipments of nearly thirty miles.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> As it is now the Berwind eastern shipments
must be hauled back to Iaeger before reaching the main line. By building
the connecting stretch, the eastbound haulage would not have to cover the dead
distance back to Iaeger, but by a continuous trip could reach the main line at
Graham.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> While the plausibility of the enterprise is
apparent, there is nothing beyond the general report, that the company intends
undertaking it, it is generally thought, however, that the talk has some
foundation in fact, and that the intervening stretch will be built in the near
future.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>The railroad's name was "Iaeger <U>and</U> Southern,"
not "Iaeger Southern." According to the June 1906 N&W Annual Report
the I & S had been conveyed to the N&W and was being operated as the Dry
Fork Branch. The June 1913 Annual Report gives the opening of the Tug Fork
Branch between Iaeger and Cedar Bluff as </EM><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><EM>April 15th, 1913, quite a bit
later than the 1909 article speculated.</EM>]</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>