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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>September 1,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>THE GRAHAM DAILY
NEWS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">New Filter a
Blessing</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> Communities that
are interested in cleaning their supply of drinking water from impurities might
profit by investigating a new process in the way of a filter which has just been
installed by the Norfolk and Western railroad at Williamson. The new
filter differs very materially from anything of the kind heretofore in use, and
railroad men who have inspected it, are of the opinion that it will prove a
blessing to humanity so unfortunate as to be deprived of access to pure spring
water. The new filter at Williamson is the result of the ingenuity of a
Mr. Smith of Charleston, and he secured a patent on his invention. The
filter is constructed of a sort of net work of brass pipes, having slots so
delicate that ordinary writing paper will not pass through them. The whole
arrangement is imbedded several feet under the creek bed and the mud and gravel
in the bottom of the creek act in conjunction with the filter in catching the
germs from the water. The railroad company installed the filter for the
use of their employes at Williamson who are forced to get their water for
domestic purposes from Tug River. The arrangement is right expensive, it
would seem, as it cost nearly $15,000, but if the waters of Tug River at
Williamson can be made pure by passing through it, it is cheap at most any
cost.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman">[<EM>Modern complex and expensive
water purification plants must be superfluous if such a simple
device turned the black water that flowed in Tug River in those days into
pure, germ-free drinking water.</EM>]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>