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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Mr. Schust,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I don't want to get this post off topic, but
who is publishing your book? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Marty Flick</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>-My new book, "Billion Dollar Coalfield", will have
a picture of Climax on wooden rails on that particular
railroad. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Alex Schust</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 04, 2009 10:06
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Lumber company in BS&C
territory in 1910</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>March 16,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>STEEL RAILS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Replacing Wooden Ones on Track of Lumber
Company</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> The C. L. Ritter Lumber Company, Inc., is
rushing work on its Virginia plant and is replacing as fast as possible all
the wooden track which it inherited from the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company,
which it recently bought out. The old company had Fifty-four miles of
wooden rails and it is the intention of the new company to replace this
track as rapidly as circumstances demand with steel rails. The company
will also go down Dismal about seventeen miles to reach a large tract of
timber. The company's offices are at Huntington, W. Va., while its
working plant is now located at Whitewood, Va. The C. L. Ritter Lumber
Company, the Rockcastle Lumber Company and the Tug River Lumber Company have
joint offices in Huntington.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>I have seen old pictures of wooden track lumber
railroads, but I never had any idea that there would be 54 miles of such
track in one operation. The attached picture of a C. L. Ritter Climax
locomotive at Whitewood is from the collection of C. T. Stoner, and is
presented here by courtesy of climaxlocomotives.com. It appears
to be on wooden rails. Whitewood is in Buchanan County, Virginia, on
Dismal Creek in an area that was remote in 1910, so it would be interesting
to know how the lumber from that plant got to market. According to
Blackstock and Wilson's article in the July/August issue of <U>The
Arrow</U>, W. M. Ritter's Big Sandy and Cumberland narrow gauge railroad
reached Matney on Slate Creek in 1910, and Matney would be only three to
four miles north of the C. L. Ritter line down Dismal Creek. Could
there have been a connection over the divide between Dismal and Slate creeks
for C. L. Ritter lumber to go out on the BS&C?
Incidentally, the C. L. Ritter Lumber Co. is still in existence in
Huntington according to the websites such as <A
href="http://www.manta.com">www.manta.com</A>. </EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
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