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<DIV>In my comments on the message below I should have pointed out to those who
might not be familiar with Jedediah (Jed) Hotchkiss the significance of the Jed
Hotchkiss 1880 and 1881 maps in the NWHS Archives. Jed Hotchkiss was
Stonewall Jackson's cartographer in the Civil War. Among other things,
historians attribute the success of Jackson's valley campaign to Hotchkiss'
maps.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
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href="mailto:VirginianRailwayEnthusiasts@yahoogroups.com">4VGN Ry Yahoo
Group</A> ; <A title=nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 26, 2009 3:39 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> N&W in 1909--Princeton</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>December 14,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>MAY ENTER PRINCETON</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Norfolk and Western Likely to Touch One of Important
Points on Virginian</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Roanoke Times: Everyone concerned with
the industrial business of the Princeton section of the states of Virginia and
West Virginia has for a year now predicted that the Norfolk and Western, by
reason of the building of the Virginian railway on a low grade, would of
necessity be forced to build the original route through Princeton by way of
the Stinson Gap at the head of Rocky Hollow to the mouth of
Widemouth. The Norfolk and Western has never abandoned this route, and it
is now rumored that it now intends to build this line. Whether this will
be done cannot now be stated, but the fact that there are engineers on this line
between Stinson Gap and Princeton and between Princeton and Sand Lick adds much
to the rumor.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The supposition that the Virginia
[<EM>sic</EM>] could extend a line from Princeton to Bluefield is without
foundation. The Virginian will go to Pocahontas, tap the upper coal fields
and bring the product of their mines through Princeton as the shortest route to
the seaboard and the easiest grades.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>It is interesting that this article states, "The Norfolk
and Western has never abandoned this route." None of the NWHS Archives'
three 1890 and 1891 Jed Hotchkiss maps of proposed railroad lines into the
"Great Flat Top Coal Fields" shows a line through Princeton although one
1890 map shows that some elevations were taken near Princeton and also Sand Lick
Church. Does anyone know of any other evidence that the N&W proposed
to reach the coal fields by way of Princeton. Incidentally, Sand Lick
flows into the Bluestone River from the east with its mouth just
north of the mouths of Crane Creek, Flipping Creek and Simmons Creek, which all
flow into the river from the west.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script></FONT> </DIV>
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