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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>November 12,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">BRANCH LINE
BUILT</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Pocahontas Mining
Corporation Will Develop 3,000 of its 20,000 Acres</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> Regarding a
report that the Pocahontas Mining Corporation will develop 20,000 acres of coal
lands at the head of Big Creek, near Tazewell, Va., the Manufacturers' Record
has been informed that the company owns almost 20,000 acres of coal lands in
McDowell county, W. Va., and Tazewell and Buchanan counties, Va., but has not
determined to what extent it will develop them. The company has
constructed a branch railway from Richlands, in Tazewell county, on the Clinch
Valley division of the Norfolk and Western, to the property, and will probably
develop about 3,000 acres at this time. George W. St. Clair of Tazewell,
Va., and Thomas M. Righter [<EM>or maybe Richter</EM>] of Mt. Carmel,
Pa., are interested, and Malcolm Smith of Big Stone Gap, Va., is the engineer in
charge.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman">[<EM>Presumably this became the
N&W's Big Creek Branch out of Richlands.</EM>]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>