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<DIV><FONT face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>August 19, 1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=5>COAL MOVEMENT HEAVIEST IN ROAD'S
HISTORY</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>If Haulage Continues at Present Rate Month of
August Will be Record-breaker</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>DAILY AVERAGE MORE THAN THIRTEEN HUNDRED
CARS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>United States Coal and Coke Corporation Business
Promises to Exceed That of July by Not Less Than Seventy-five
Percent</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>CARS FROM OTHER ROADS PREVENT EXPECTED
SHORTAGE</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> To date for the month of August the coal
movement on the Norfolk & Western over this division is the heaviest in the
history of the road. If the haulage continues at the present rate the
month will be a record breaker, and there is every reason to believe that it
will increase rather than diminish. The average daily movement according
to advices gained from the field is about 1,340 cars since the first of the
month. This means the number of cars delivered to the division west of
Williamson for western consignment and to the division east of Bluefield for
eastern consignment.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The western movement is the heavier of the
two, and amounts to a daily average of 750 cars, and the rest is seaboard.
Included in these figures is also the merchant haulage, which probably falls
under fifteen percent. On Thursday 1,819 cars were loaded in the field and
about 150 of these were miscellaneous freight. The rest were coal and
coke. Monday Castner, Curran & Bullett alone loaded 303 [<EM>Microfilm
blurred. Best interpretation shown.</EM>] cars. The Tuesday report
has not yet been received at the local headquarters, but the number of cars
loaded will probably exceed that of the previous day.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> A telephone message from Col. E. O'Toole,
superintendent of the United States Coal Corporation at Gary, to the Daily
Telegraph yesterday afternoon, stated that the business of the company for the
month of August will probably exceed that of July by seventy-five percent.
The entire output, including both coke and coal, is consumed by the several
plants of the United States Steel Company. The coke is shipped to the
plant at Gary, Ind. The coal goes to Wheeling, Sharon, Pa., and South
Chicago, where in addition to its manufacturing uses the by-product is
utilized.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Last week there was a car shortage on the
Norfolk and Western on account of the heavy freight movement, but a good many
cars have been obtained from foreign roads, and the situation temporarily
relieved.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>