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<DIV>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>January 19, 1910</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>BUILD TWO THOUSAND 100,000 TON [<EM>SIC</EM>]
CARS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Roanoke Shops to Begin Work Within A Week, Contract
Calling for Fifteen a Day</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> The Norfolk and Western shops of Roanoke will
some time within the next week begin the construction of two thousand steel coal
cars, each of 100,000 pounds capacity for the Norfolk & Western. These
cars are similar in every respect to the three hundred which are now about
completed, many of which have already been put into service.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The new contract calls for fifteen finished
cars a day, and the Roanoke shops have made ample provision to fulfill this end
of the bargian. Work would have begun before this had it not been for lack
of material. The rolling mills which are furnishing the steel for
structural purposes are behind with their orders due in a large measure to the
holiday lay off and the extreme cold weather and storms experienced in the past
few weeks in the north and west, where the material is being obtained.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The cost of constructing a steel car of
100,000 pounds capacity is about $1,100. Fifteen cars per day means an
increase of $16,500 daily in the erecting department. A large percentage
of this amount will, of course, go for labor.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>