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<DIV>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>August 5, 1910</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>IN CITY AND COALFIELD</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Virginian to Let Contract</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> At Norfolk today the Virginian Railway
Company will let contracts for road building and sidetracks as well as other
work to the extent of over a million and a half dollars. The contracts
will include the branch line to Beckley Junction from the Winding Gulf territory
as well as a large number of sidings on Winding Gulf. Additional work will
be done between Page and Deepwater and contracts for this work will also be
let. The contractors who have been asked to bid on the work are W. O.
Lipscomb; Carpenter & Boxley; Mason, Hanger & Company; T. Toles &
Company; and P. J. Millett. H. A. Smith, of the Miller Supply Company, is
at Norfolk to await the opening of the bids.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>