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<DIV>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>September 8, 1910</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>LET CONTRACT SOON</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Harper Hill Curves on Virginian Railway to be
Revised</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The contract for the revision of the Harper
Hill curves on the Virginian will be let shortly. The work will revise
about four miles of track and do away with the wooden trestles in that region
which will be replaced with steel viaducts. It is the plan of the road to
at once commence the work of replacing every wooden trestle on the line with
steel viaducts. This work will take the better part of the next two years
and will make the road a great deal safer from a traffic standpoint. It is
also said on good authority that the Virginian will enter Beckley, but no date
has been set so far as can be learned for this entry into the Raleigh county
capital. The wooden trestle at Slab Fork is to be replaced at once with a
steel viaduct. This is one of the highest trestles on the entire
line.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>A VGN track chart shows Harper to be 23.9 miles west
of Mullens at the apex of a climb from both directions and Slab Fork to be 11.2
miles west of Mullens on the westbound climb to Jenny Gap, both on the main line
to Deepwater.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>