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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hmmm. I thought the TUG Fork Branch went from
Welch to Jenkinjones and the DRY Fork Branch went from Iaeger to Cedar Bluff . .
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But, then, I'm just an old nitpicker . .
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>EdKing</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:45
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> N&W in 1909--I & S</DIV>
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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>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<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>
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