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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>June 7,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>EXTENDING ROAD INTO RICH TIMBER
REGION</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>County Traversed by Lumber Company's Line Also
Underlaid With High Grade of Coal</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> I. F. Jackson, a prominent lumberman of
Honaker was in Bluefield last night on his way to Rich Creek, Va., where he will
load two cars of walnut timber.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Mr. Jackson says the large lumber plant at
Honaker is now in full blast and is turning out timber at the rate of 60,000
feet per day. The company, it is understood, will add another band saw
mill to the plant, which will make three mills complete under one roof, with a
capacity of about 100,000 feet per day.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> This company now has in operation
about nine miles of standard gauge railroad which is being extended into
Buchanan county through a section which abounds in fine timber and is underlaid
with vast quantities of the very best grade of domestic coal.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> While the Honaker Lumber Company is only
interested in the marketing of the timber products, it proposes to give all
inducements to the coal operators who own the coal rights to develop their
properties.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>This lumber railroad extended north and west out of
Honaker, Va., which is on the N&W's Clinch Valley line, into Buchanan
County. Two 1916 topo maps on <A
href="http://www.historical.maptech.com">www.historical.maptech.com</A> shows
about 27 miles of track</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>