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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>April 7,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>NEW MAIL SERVICE</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Inaugurated on Tug Fork Branch of Norfolk and
Western</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The Norfolk and Western has inaugurated a new
mail service on the Tug Fork branch. Two mails a day now go to Anawalt and
this service is greatly appreciated. The people along the Anawalt section
now want an opportunity to get the train to lay over at Pageton or Anawalt at
night instead of at Gary as they figure in this way they will be able to go to
Welch or some other point and return the same day. An effort will also be
made to get a local freight service on the line. There are eighteen or
twenty mines on the Tug Fork branch and the coal companies along the line feel
that enough business goes to and from these operations to warrant a local
freight. It is likely that a petition will be prepared asking for such an
extension of the local freight service.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>If there were no local freight service on Tug Fork branch
how did these eighteen or so mines get the material for the tipples and
mine material such as rails, cars, etc? As far as that goes how did any
mines get started before the railroad reached the mine location?</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>