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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>March 4,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>VIRGINIAN RAILWAY LACKS EQUIPMENT</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Has Never Found Slightest Difficulty in Finding a
Market for Its Coal</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Raymond Dupuy, vice president and general
manager of the Virginian railway, and George Reith, division superintendent,
arrived in the city Tuesday afternoon from Norfolk and spent the night at Hotel
Roanoke, says the Roanoke Times. They are making a tour of inspection over
the line and from Roanoke will go to the western terminus. Mr. Dupuy has
been connected with the Virginian almost from the day the building of the road
began. He has seen it pass through many vicissitudes, through the
depression of 1907 and 1908, and through its early struggles, and he is today
the guiding genius of its destiny. He knows every foot of the Virginian
from Norfolk to Deepwater, and is familiar with every hill and valley through
which it passes.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The growth of business on the Virginian has
been most gratifying to those who are interested in it. The volume of its
traffic has increased steadily and the number of trains now going through
Roanoke is much larger than what it was a few months ago. An official of the
Virginian says that the road needs badly more engines. Its car equipment
has kept ahead of the locomotive equipment and the principal trouble now
encountered is in procuring the power to handle its trains. A large number
of engines are being built and are being delivered from time to time, but the
delivery does not keep pace with the increase of business.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Speaking of the real supply of the mines
along the road, it is said that the Virginian has never had the slightest
difficulty in finding a market for its output; that it has had a place for every
ton of coal taken out of the ground, and that as the mines are opened their
output is taken care of without the slightest trouble. "The Winding Gulf"
says a Virginian official, "will develop one of the richest coal sections in
West Virginia, and when the various operations there are at work the road will
be able to meet every demand for coal which it may receive.'</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>