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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>June 26,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>COAL TONNAGE HAS NEVER BEEN SO LARGE</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Norfolk and Western Hurrying Double Tracking to Meet
Requisition for 20,000 Tons a Day</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Interviews with officials of the Norfolk and
Western Railway quote them as saying that never have they had so large a
tonnage, most of which is west bound. A large part of this is due to the
fact that the United States Coal and Coke Company is shipping coal to Gary,
Indiana, for use in the by-product coke ovens there, and the magnification of
that plant, which is now in progress, and which is to be made to a unit of
sixteen blast furnaces of large capacity, means a greatly enlarged shipment of
coal from the Pocahontas field, the coal of which is used in commixion [sic]
with Indiana and Illinois coals for the making of coke.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> It is whispered, says the Coal and Coke
Operator, that it is to meet the increased demands for coal for this purpose by
the Gary furnaces that the Norfolk & Western has ordered 5,000 60-ton steel
cars. It is further whispered that the daily shipments will aggregate not
less that 20,000 tons, and that officials of the road have been apprised of this
requirement and have been admonished to increase their car equipment and to
hurry the double tracking of the road to the westward from Gary [<EM>WV</EM>] in
order to afford regularity of delivery.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> In this connection, it is declared that H. C.
Frick is the largest individual holder of the shares of the Norfolk and Western
road, and he is also a heavy holder of Pennsylvania Railroad shares, which
railroad is accredited with more than fifty-one per cent of the outstanding
number of shares [<EM>of N&W</EM>]. It is not wondered at, therefore,
that President James McCrea of the Pennsylvania and Mr. Frick, who is a director
of it, were tourists over the Norfolk and Western during last week in a special
car and train, the train stopping at out-of-the-way points in order that they
might survey the situation visually. This is interpreted to mean a
hurrying up this work...[<EM>Microfilm hopelessly blurred.</EM>]...from
Bluefield westward it is to meet this requisition for 20,000 tons of coal a day
that work is being expedited in the opening of the No. 13 mine for the United
States Coal and Coke Company.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>