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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wyoming, also known as Wyoming City and Wyoming
Station is located near the McDowell-MIngo County boarder at the mouth of
Fourpole Creek. I expect that would put the community at the east
end of the 12.8- mile double track if Jim is west of Devon. N&W
places the community at milepost N432.22</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wyoming was platted as a community with 61 lots and
the first lot was sold on June 12, 1893. The community got a big boost in
1899 when W.G.W Iaeger sold 9,000 acres of timber rights in the vicinity to what
became the Longpole Lumber Company. Longpole Lumber Co. built a
lumber mill and manufacturing co. at Wyoming City. They also operated
a 42-inch gauge lumber railroad up Fourpole and Longpole creeks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alex Schust</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 05, 2009 3:12
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> N&W in
1910--Improvements</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tunga size=2>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>January 28,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=5>$3,500,000 TO BE EXPENDED ON THIS
DIVISION</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT size=5>Twenty-one Contractors Figuring on Work
for Norfolk and Western</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>MANY SHARP CURVES ARE TO BE CUT
OUT</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Two Tunnels Will be Driven Between Kimball and Welch
and Double Track, it is Learned, Will Be Laid at Once</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center>TWO MILLIONS APPROPRIATED FOR DRY FORK CUT OFF</DIV>
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<DIV align=left> The Daily Telegraph stated recently that
the Norfolk and Western is to let a number of contracts on February 1st for
work on the Pocahontas and Scioto divisions. Following this statement it
is now learned, unofficially, that the work on this division alone will amount
to over $3,500,000 while the work on the Sciota division will reach
$1,500,000. Two tunnels between Kimball and Welch will be built in
addition to straightening the track at several points. Double track will
be laid between West Vivian or Kimball and Huger, while a double track tunnel
will be built in Kimball which will cut off from where the old station was
located and pass through the hill at that point. This tunnel will pass
very closely underneath the cemetery. At Big Four another tunnel will be
built. The Dry Fork tunnel, which will be 4,700 feet long, will also be
constructed. This will be a single track tunnel, and it is learned that
there has been about $2,000,000 appropriated for work on the Dry Fork cut off
which will eventually connect with the Clinch Valley division</DIV>
<DIV align=left> At Kimball the company will extend its
yards west, putting in several tracks which are known as classification
tracks. Near Wyoming the company will build double track from Wyoming to
mile post 435 and from mile post 445 1/2 to 447. A number of sharp
curves will be cut out and if the original plan is followed tunnels will be
constructed at Panther, Mount's Curve and Delorme. The tunnels are to be
1,200, 1,800 and 1,500 feet respectively. The Kimball tunnel, outside of
approaches, will be about 900 feet in length while the Big Four tunnel without
the approaches will be about 600 feet in length.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Twenty-one contracts have been figuring on
the work and most of them were in this city yesterday morning and last
night. They arrived at various times from the field and will leave here
for Roanoke where they will submit their bids on the first of February when
the contracts will either be let or turned down according to the bids which
will be received.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The work which is to be done will be of the
greatest importance to the Norfolk and Western, as it will straighten out many
places in the line which are in first class condition but which now cost the
company a great deal of money on account of the curves which are a continual
wear on equipment and which require a heavy outlay to maintain. The most
noticeable of all the improvements which have been made up to date on the road
are those near Roderfield, or the present station, Claren; at Welch, where a
tunnel allows the road to save a long haul on a continual curve; and between
Hallsville and Hemphill, where two tunnels cut off quite a distance.
There are a number of other places which were greatly and materially improved
by the six tunnels which were built in 1907 and their effect on the earnings
of the road has been apparent, inasmuch as they primarily saved mileage and
then the ordinary wear which every one connected with a railroad knows is
continual on a road cut up with curves. When the original plans of the
company are complete the Norfolk and Western will be perhaps the best coal
carrying road in the country. All of the proposed work in addition to
many other improvements is being made without any great additional outlays and
in face of an increased dividend.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>A 1910 operating timetable in the N&WHS Archives
shows Wyoming to be about midway between Panther and Alnwick. Wyoming
was the west end of the 12.8-mile double track whose east end was at Jim,
which was 0.5 mi. west of Devon. A Pocahontas division track chart
reveals that the proposed tunnels at Panther and Delorme were never
built. The tunnel at Mount's Curve is doubtful as that name does not
show up in the operating timetables of 1909 and 1910.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
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