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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>November 30,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">LAST STEEL BEING
LAID</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Winding Gulf Branch of
Virginian to Be Opened by First of Year</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> The Virginian
Railway is finishing laying steel on the Winding Gulf branch and it is expected
that the road will be operated by the first of the year as was originally
planned. The road is also ordering a large number of new cars which will
be of special design for use on the company's piers at Sewells Point where
arrangements have been made by which machinery will pick up the cars and dump
them as fast as they can be run onto the pier. The pier is the most modern
owned by any railroad and will greatly reduce the cost of handling coal at the
coast terminal.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
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