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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>January 29,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>VIRGINIAN RAILWAY TO ENTER
HUNTINGTON</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Will Have Depot on Seventeenth Street, Where Company
Has Already Condemned Property</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Huntington, as has been predicted by the
Daily Telegraph since April 1907, is to have the Virginian Railway. The
road will cross the Ohio and enter the city in the residential section, its
station being located on Seventeenth street, where the company has already
condemned property so that they may have terminal rights. How soon the
work will be started is not known, but from the way in which the people whose
property has been taken talk it will not be long.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The line, which will be the main line, will
extend from Elmore, two and one-half miles from Mullens, down the Guyandotte
River for fifty miles, where it will connect with another road which has charter
rights to build a line up the Guyandotte on the opposite side of the river from
the Chesapeake and Ohio. It is for this company that the Huntington land
has been purchased. The original plan, as told to a Daily Telegraph
representative in 1907 by the president of the road, was to build the Virginian
down the Guyandotte River from Elmore, a point which would have side tracks
capable of holding 4,000 cars and which would be the lowest grade assembling
point in the state. Here twelve branch lines will send coal which can be
shipped east to Princeton and Sewell's Point and west to Huntington and the Ohio
or some other point which will give the company connection with the Great Lakes
to which point they have right of way bought and paid for. One of the
objective points is the Island Creek and United States Coal and Oil
properties.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> It is also reported on good authority that
the Virginian has purchased the Paint Creek and Piney River Railroads, as it has
been frequently reported by the Telegraph it would do. It is
understood that the road, which runs from Beckley Junction to Prosperity, will
be extended into Beckley and from Prosperity will run to the McKell
[<EM>spelling?</EM>] property, down the Sand branch to connect with the
Virginian at some point near the Crab Orchard Land and Improvement Company
property. The Crab Orchard Land and Improvement Company claims to ship a
large portion of the coal which goes over the Chesapeake and Ohio and the
Virginian is going after that tonnage as well as that of other companies in the
section.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>Either the reporter or I need a geography lesson. If
the Virginian were to cross the Ohio River on the way to seventeenth street, it
would be in Ohio instead of Huntington, WV.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>