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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>January 9,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>IN CITY AND COALFIELD</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>New Signal System</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The Norfolk and Western has installed an
automatic signal system at Blake and yesterday the apparatus was put in working
order for the first time. The local road is equipping a number of its
towers with automatic signal systems so as to reduce to a minimum all chances of
accidents.</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Depot Closed</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The Norfolk and Western has closed the depot
at Fink, on the Clinch Valley. Fink, up to the time of the building of the
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio, was the junction point between the Norfolk and
Western and the Virginia and Southwestern. The junction point is now
located at St. Paul, which town is but a half mile from Fink.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>The second article implies that the Va. & SW reached
Fink 24 or so miles east of Norton, but the Va. & SW connected with the
N&W at Norton through trackage rights over the L&N and, insofar as
I know, had trackage rights over the N&W only to Coeburn 12 miles
east of Norton and up the branch there to Toms Creek. A
depot for the junction with the CC&O (not the Va. & SW ) may have
been what was moved from Fink to St. Paul.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>