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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>October 10,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5>WILL ENTER NORFOLK BY
TUNNEL</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5>Great Project to Dig a
Railroad Way Under Elizabeth River</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>PLAN WILL FURNISH ALL-RAIL
OUTLET</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>Several Southern Lines
Would Dash Through City To Deepwater Piers at Cape Henry</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">MILLION DOLLAR DEPOT IN
HEART OF BUSINESS DISTRICT</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> A petition will
be presented at the November meeting of the Norfolk city council for permits to
bring into Norfolk a proposed tunnel under Elizabeth River from Pinners Point,
the present terminus of several railway systems entering this port on the
opposite side of the river.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> The plan is to
have the Seaboard Air Line, Southern Railway, Atlantic Coast Line, and Belt Line
Railway enter Norfolk direct by means of this tunnel and connect with the
Norfolk and Southern Railway to Cape Henry, where a breakwater will be built and
piers constructed for foreign trade, thus eliminating time lost by steamers in
coming from the Virginia Capes into Norfolk and going on to
Baltimore.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> The New York,
Philadelphia and Norfolk Railway would connect at Cape Henry by a short line
ferry from Cape Charles.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> The plan carries
with it also the erection of a $1,000,000 union depot in the heart of Norfolk's
business district.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman">[<EM>Not about N&W or VGN, who
both had bridges across the Elizabeth River, but an interesting proposal
nonetheless.</EM>]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>