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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Two Mule Publishing (my own company) will publish
the book. It will be available through the commissary. My other
books, "Gary Hollow" and "Coalwood" are also available through the
commissary.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Billion Dollar Coalfield" will cover the
development of the mining industry in McDowell County, WV, from 1888 through
1988, by following the mainline and branch lines of the Pocahontas Div in
McDowell County. In some place the lumber business was the precursor to
the coal industry and coexisted with the coal industry for a number of years,
especially inthe western part of the county from Roderfield to Wyoming City on
the mainline and on the Dry Fork Branch.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am working to get the new book published in the
first quarter of 2010. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alex Schust</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 05, 2009 7:11
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Lumber company in BS&C
territory in 1910</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mr. Schust,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't want to get this post off topic, but
who is publishing your book? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Marty Flick</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-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 face=Arial size=2>Alex Schust</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 04, 2009 10:06
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Lumber company in BS&C
territory in 1910</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tunga size=2>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 face=Script size=6>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
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