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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>September 24,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>WORK PROGRESSES FAST ON
BLAND'S NEW ROAD</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Big Band Mill With
Capacity of 75,000 to 100,000 Feet Daily to be Installed at Round
Bottom</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> P. V. Widner,
manager of the Bluefield office for the J. J. Wilkinson Lumber Company of
Bristol, Tenn., returned last night from Phlegar, Va., on the new railroad being
built to Rocky Gap, Bland county, and he gained the information that the Wilson
Lumber Company of North Carolina is making preparations to install a big band
mill at Round Bottom, two miles from Rocky Gap, to cut the timber on a large
tract which it owns. The Wilson people are large operators and have an
extensive plant at the mouth of Wilson Creek in North Carolina. The daily
capacity of the Bottom Creek mill will be between 75,000 and 100,000
feet.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> Mr. Widener says
that work is proceeding rapidly on the extension of the New River, Holston and
Western railroad. Four miles of track has been laid from Phlegar, the
termination of the old road, and the grade for the rest of the distance, about
four miles to Rocky Gap, the present proposed terminus, is well under way.
The new part of the road from Phlegar to Rocky Gap is eight miles in
length. The entire distance from Narrows where the line connects with the
Norfolk and Western is almost twenty miles. The new road opens up one of
the finest timber and iron sections in the country.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman">[<EM>It looks as though the
reporter has finally gotten the mileage right after giving an erroneous figure
in an early article.</EM> <EM>Also, N&W Annual Reports maps 1903 --
1911 showed the end of the NRH&W at Penvir [c. 5 miles from Narrows), but
obviously it had been extended to Phlegar by 1909.]</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>