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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>January 18,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>COMPLETE NEW LINE BY FIRST OF MARCH</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Dumps Creek Extension Will Reach Coal Mines That Have
Already Been Opened</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> The Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway
has moved a derrick car to Kiser, Va., where it is to be used in the
construction of a bridge across the Clinch River. The extension from Kiser
is the well known Dumps Creek extension and when finished, which will be about
the first of March, it will be about five miles long and will have about two
miles of branches. It is expected that the bridge will be completed by the
tenth of February. It will be about 200 feet long. The Dumps Creek
extension will open the coal on Dumps Creek where a number of openings have been
made but cannot be developed until the railroad is ready for traffic.
Houses, commissary and other improvements necessary to the working of the coal
have been erected, and it was learned here last night that the story about work
being stopped on the extension is untrue. The contractors were merely
moved to another part of the road so that they could be working to advantage
while the bridge was arriving. It is the general opinion of the people in
and around Dante that the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio will go up Guest creek
near Coeburn and from there will go over to Crane's Nest, where the company is
already operating a mine and where it owns a great deal of coal which is being
operated by the Clinchfield Coal Corporation.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Speculation is rampant among the people in
and around Dante about who will be Winder's successor. At present his work
is being taken care of by Mr. Potter, the chairman of the board of directors of
the road and the mining company. The people all seem to want to have Mr.
Roan remain at Dante as they have a great deal of confidence in him and a great
deal of respect for him. What will be done is more or less guess work at
this time.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>Apparently the readers were expected to know who Winder,
Potter and Roan were. Also, as commented on in a 6/19/09 posting headed
"N&W in 1909--New Branch," Kiser became Carbo, and the CC&O Dumps Creek
line became the N&W's Dumps Creek branch in 1956.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>