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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>February 2,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>SEVENTY-FIVE MILES OF DOUBLE TRACK</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Bids Opened at Roanoke And Who GetsContracts Will Not
be Known For Several Days</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Roanoke, Va., Feb. 1--Bids were opened today
by Chief Engineer Chas. S. Churchill of the Norfolk and Western for the
construction of about seventy-five miles of double track in West Virginia and
Ohio, and the construction of a 4, 700 foot tunnel on the branch line from Bluff
City, Va., to Iaeger, W. Va., and a number of large railroad contractors are in
the city looking after their interests.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The bids were on building double track at the
following points:</DIV>
<DIV align=left> In West Virginian: Vivian to Huger,
five and a half miles, Wyoming to Alnwick, three miles, milepost 27 1-2 to
milepost 44 1-2 [<EM>On the Big Sandy Low Grade Line</EM>?], seven miles.
A total distance of thirteen and a half miles [<EM>Fifteen and a half
miles?</EM>]</DIV>
<DIV align=left> In Ohio: From Rock to Williamsburg, thirteen
miles.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> From Davis to Waverly, twenty-three
miles.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> From Renick to Delano, six miles.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> From Gregg to Cromley, eight miles. A
total in Ohio of fifty-three miles [<EM>Fifty miles</EM>?].</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Among the prominent contractors represented
at the opening of the bids were the Luck Construction Company; Mason, Hanger
& Coleman; Peroell & Sheehan; Samuel Walton and John T. McKinney.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> It will require several days to tabulate the
bids and arrive at a conclusion as to who will be awarded the various
contracts.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>Some of the proper names were indistinct on the microfilm
so the best interpretations are shown.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>