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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>August 14,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>EXTEND WINDING GULF BRANCH TO MT.
HOPE</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Virginian Railway Will Provide Another Shipping Outlet
for Sam Dixon's Coal Operations</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Senator H. S. White, of Matewan, internal
revenue collector, was in Bluefield yesterday returning from a trip on official
business to Raleigh and Wyoming counties. Senator White was through the
Winding Gulf region into which the Virginian is completing a branch line from
Mullins [<EM>sic</EM>] to tap a big coal area. The branch will be
completed in about thirty days, and its completion will be followed by the
opening up of some sixteen coal operations. Several of these operations
are now in a position to ship and are awaiting facilities to market their
output.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Senator White learned that the contract has
been let to extend the Winding Gulf branch to Mount Hope, a distance of
twenty-four miles and provide a shipping outlet over the Virginian for the Sam
Dixon operations. He was greatly impressed with the activity of the
country, and he believes it is destined to become one of the important coal
areas of southern West Virginia.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>