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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>October 6,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>OUTPUT CURTAILED BY LACK
OF CARS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Reports from Coal Field
Do Not Bear Out Railroad's Statement That Demand is Well
Supplied</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> It has been
printed repeatedly on information given out by the Norfolk and Western that the
company is practically meeting the demand of the coal operators for cars, but
reports from the field fail to bear out the statement. A majority percent
of the coal men who have been seen in Bluefield say that their output is
decidedly curtailed by the failure of the railroad people to furnish the number
of empty cars required to fill the orders. One operator says that the
production of his mine for September would have been at least thirty per cent
more had the car delivery been equal to his requirement.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> The cry all down
the line is that the September consignments would have been vastly increased had
there been plenty of cars. The haulage, individual operators say, has been
cut down from ten to thirty percent on this account. Some complain that
the company is running in little dinky forty and fifty-ton cars, and the
majority say that the supply is decidedly short.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>