N&W in 1903 -- Water

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    The Norfolk and Western Railway is laying a pipe line from the city to Graham.  It is intended to establish a pumping station below the Mitchell Ice Company's plant at Graham and pump water from the Bluestone River to this city for the use of the engines and shops here.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
August 15, 1903

[Shows the length the railroad had to go to in some cases to have an adequate water supply.  Bluefield and Graham -- now Bluefield, VA -- were some 3 miles apart.]

Gordon Hamilton
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