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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>March 26,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>Bluefield Could Afford to Buy Right-of-Way and
Build Branch</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> A prominent wholesale man told a Daily
Telegraph representative recently that it would pay the people of Bluefield to
buy a right-of-way for a railroad from this city to Princeton and then turn it
over to the Virginian if the latter road would guarantee to run trains into
Bluefield. He said that by doing this Bluefield would get a better freight
rate into and from this city and would also gain in many other ways. If
the proper amount of enthusiasm is worked up by the chamber of commerce there is
no reason why Bluefielders could not build such a railroad, paying the entire
cost or perhaps half of it. This matter can be taken up with the Virginian
officials and if they are willing to enter into it, Bluefield should be willing
to do something towards helping herself. A town with one railroad is
generally known as a jerkwater town and Bluefield will be a jerkwater town
unless she gets another railroad when one is as near by as is the
Virginian.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>