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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gordon,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't know. I have Samuel Evans involved in
the incorporation of:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Elk Ridge Coal & Coke in 1892 with 25 shares
and Page Coal & Coke in 1903 with 10 shares. Both times Evans is
listed as living in Elkhorn.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>S. J. Evans, of Keystone, is listed as an
incorporator of Pocahontas Mining Company (a land company) in 1907 with six
shares</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In these three business dealings he was associated
with some of the early entrepreneurers of the Pocahontas Coalfield such as Isaac
T. Mann, the Crozers, the Tierney's, Cosby Whitley, etc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The early industrial/residential center of McDowell
County was probably Elkhorn up until thre late 1890s. By early 1900
Keystone became the major commercial/population center of the county and
that probably lasted until about 1920. Mining developement in the
county along the N&W mainline stopped around 1892 with the development of
Tidewater Coal & Coke at Helena-Tidewater-Vivian-Kimball (as the community
changed names over the years) as the coal went underground and slope or shaft
mines were required rather then the cheaper drift mines. At the same time
that coal development stopped on the main line, development took place on
the North Fork Branch. These events contributed to Keystone becoming the
center of influence in the county.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My speculation (without any real basis other than
Welch Water and Power Co. was started in 1902) is Keystone Light and Power
Company was started about 1900 and was sold to Applachian Power Company in June
1911.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alex</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Alex,</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for setting the record straight about Pageton. Most of us
know that Wikipedia suffers from some misinformation posted there.</DIV>
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<DIV>I wonder if the Samuel Evans you mentioned would be the Samuel J. Evans
who founded the electric company in Keystone, WV, reportedly in 1907, and
later the electric company and streetcars in Princeton, WV.</DIV>
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<DIV>Gordon Hamilton</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, November 01, 2009 11:49
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Interesting, but I don't think it is
true.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Page Coal & Coke Company was incorporated
in McDowell County by Samuel Crozer, John Crozer and Louis Page of Upland,
WV in 1903. Additional shareholders were John Lincoln, Samuel Evans,
and John Tierney of Elkhorn, WV and Laurence Tierney of Powhatan, WV.
Each of these shareholders were industrialists and coal men. Page Coal
& Coke Company leased its property from Crozer Land
Association.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The community of Pageton was first proposed as
LePage. When the post office rejected that name, the second chioce was
Pageville. When that name was rejected, the name choice became
Pageton.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Crozer's and Page's of near Philadelphia
were fairly closely assocated in business ventures. The Crozers and
Louis Page also were the incorporators and major shareholders in the Upland
Coal & Coke Company and eventually the Crozer Coal & Land
Company.</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> Thursday, October 22, 2009
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: N&W in 1910--Mail
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<DIV>As a postscript to the posting below I should have pointed out that
the Pageton, WV, mentioned in the article as being on the Tug Fork
branch of the N&W was named for William Nelson Page of Virginian
Railway fame as stated in the following from Wikipedia:</DIV>
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<P><EM>Pageton was named for William Nelson Page (1854-1932) a civil
engineer and industrialist who lived in Ansted, where he managed
many iron, coal, and railroad enterprises. William Page was the
first president of The Virginian Railway Company (now a part of
Norfolk Southern).</EM></P>
<P><EM>William N. Page was a principal of the Page Coal and Coke Company,
a coal and coking company with another operation in Page in Fayette
County. He established the mining operation tipple and coking ovens at
Pageton around 1907. The colliery in Page, West Virginia was the Loup
Creek Colliery Company and was a completely separate entity.</EM></P>
<P><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></P></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> N&W in 1910--Mail
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<DIV><FONT face=Tunga size=2>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>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<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 face=Script size=6>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
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