N&W in 1903 -- Guyandot and Tug River

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RAILROAD CHARTERED THAT WILL DEVELOP VAST COAL DEPOSITS
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    The Guyandotte and Tug River Railway Company, of Welch, W. Va., has been granted a charter to build and operate a railroad from Clark's Gap to a point where the Norfolk and Western railroad crosses Pine Creek.  Capital, $50,000, incorporators, T. W. R??th??d [blurred], J. I. Doran, of Philadelphia, A. J. Hemphill, of Spring Lake, N. J., and M. J. Caples, of Philadelphia, and E. H. Allen, of Lansdowne [?? blurred, best estimate], Pa.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
June 21, 1903

[This railroad, owned by the N&W, would have connected the end of the N&W's Bluestone Extension, i.e., Widemouth Branch, at Clarks Gap -- the same Clarks Gap that was the summit of the Virginian Ry's main line -- with the N&W's Ohio Extension at Wharncliffe, 62.27 miles.  See the attached excerpt from the 1903 Annual Report map.  This line, and some branches, were shown as a proposed line on Annual Report maps through the 1927 Annual Report.  In 1926 the N&W, C&O and VGN all requested ICC permission to built in this territory.  In 1928 the ICC  authorized the VGN to build along the Guyandot River into Gilbert and the G&TR RR to build between Wharncliffe and Gilbert, which became the N&W's Gilbert Branch.  From 1928 through 1936 Annual Reports the proposed line was shown as extending only from Clarks Gap to Pineville and a connection with the VGN.  This remainder of the original proposal was never built, and this remainder was not shown after 1936.  Note that previous postings to the Mailing List revealed M. J. Caples to be N&W Pocahontas Division Superintendent in 1904 and Chief Engineer on the construction of the Clinchfield RR a few years later.  Also, is there any connection between A. J. Hemphill and the Hemphill Tunnels on the Pokey Div.?  Finally, be advised that there have been several different spellings of the name of the subject river through the years.]

Gordon Hamilton
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