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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>December 4,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>CAUGHT FISH WHILE TRAIN WAS DELAYED</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Capt. O'Connor Brings Fine String of Bass and Red
Horse From the Clinch Valley</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Captain O'Connor, one of the well known
conductors on the Clinch Valley, brought a very fine string of fish to Bluefield
last night and presented them to Jake Rosenheim at the Windsor Hotel.
Among them was a two-pound bass and a number of "red horse," a well known
species of fish in that sections.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The captain tendered the information with
much gusto and pride that he caught them while his train was delayed. As
his train arrived in this city on time his Bluefield friends are inclined to
think that his fishing paraphernalia and bait was limited to the silver bait
which he carried in his pocket book and which served as a happy medium between
him and the Clinch river fishermen in offering a transfer of the finny
tribe.</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>NEW ROAD PROJECTED</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Two Routes From Bradshaw into Buchanan County Under
Consideration</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> The Clinch Valley field has continued to show
an increase over the early months in the year and bids to close the year very
well. Next year should bring prosperity to that section. A report
has been circulated in railroad circles that the Norfolk and Western is
considering the advisability of building a line from Bradshaw into Buchanan
county so as to tap the great undeveloped territory in that county. Two routes
are under consideration, one through the Knox Creek section and the other
through the route which should give a good grade from Bradshaw. The
Bradshaw route would hardly connect up with Knox Creek as a ridge between the
two points would prevent such connection except at great cost.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[Bradshaw is on the N&W's present-day Dry Fork branch, and
the line from there into Buchanan County was never built. It would be some
22 years before the N&W would operate on the Buchanan Branch along Knox
Creek in Buchanan County. This followed the taking over--and upgrading--of the
narrow gauge Big Sandy and Cumberland (See Blackstock and Wilson's articles in
the 2006 and 2007 issues of <EM>The Arrow</EM>.)].</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>