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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>September 28,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5>WILD BUILD INTO N. &
W. TERRITORY</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5>Virginian Files In Clerk's
Office Maps and Profiles of Proposed New Route</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>FEEDERS WILL RUN UP
FLIPPING AND CRANE CREEKS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Will Parallel Norfolk and
Western Branches and be Built To Points Near Goodwill and Mora in Mercer Coal
Territory</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><STRONG>CONSTRUCTION WILL BEGIN
SOON AND BE RUSHED</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> The Virginian
Railway on yesterday filed in the county clerk's office at Princeton maps,
profiles and the resolution of the board of directors authorizing and directing
the construction of 5.85 miles of road up Flipping Creek to a point above
Goodwill, and 6.32 miles up Crane Creek to Mora and Sagamore.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> It is understood
that contracts will be let as soon as practicable and that these new feeders
will be speedily built.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> This extension
of the Virginian lines means opposition in the Mercer coal fields to the Norfolk
and Western, as the new mileage parallels Norfolk and Western
feeders.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman">[<EM>If these papers were filed
with the clerk's office as reported these intentions of the Virginian must have
been more than just the typical rumors that the newspaper often printed.
The N&W Flipping and Crane Creek spurs were off the Bluestone Branch near
its beginning. The nearest Virginian line would have been the main line
near Rock, WV.</EM>]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
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