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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>February 20,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>NORTON NEWS NOTES</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Citizens of Norton are just in receipt of a
brief from the law firm of Irving & Morrison, Big Stone Gap, in the Norton
board of trade versus the Norfolk and Western and Interstate railway. The
object of the proceedings is to compel the two roads to connect at Norton.
The Interstate railroad runs from Stonega, via Appalachia and intermediate
points to Norton, paralleling the Louisville and Nashville. When the
Interstate was completed into Norton last fall, it made a proposition to the
Norfolk and Western to use their tracks and depot, but the proposition was
turned down. The board of trade then took up the matter and appealed to
the corporation commission. At a hearing in Richmond soon after the
commission refused to make the roads connect, which was appealed to the supreme
court, Irvine & Morrison present a strong case and it is believed that the
corporation commission will be reversed. The depots of the two roads are
about a mile apart at present.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>