Winding Gulf work

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Pemberton is correct.

Mark Webb


> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> November 19, 1908

> 

> PREPARING FOR WORK ON VIRGINIAN CONTRACT

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> Twenty-Four Miles of Winding Gulf Route Must be Finished Within Ten Months

> 

>     The contractors who secured the contracts for the twenty-four miles of track 

> which is to be laid on the Winding Gulf route of the Virginian railway between 

> Mullins and Pendleton have got large forces of men on the ground preparing for 

> the work.  All of the contracts specify that the work must be finished in 

> September 1909, and all of the firms have laid their plans with that view.  

> There will be three tunnels on the route, one of which will be 800 feet long 

> while the other two will be 400 and 500 respectively.  The route chosen is a 

> good one with a good grade and there are no bad places in the entire twenty-four 

> miles so far as is known.  The route has not been cross sectioned as yet, but 

> every indication points to a fairly easy job.  All of the contractors will work 

> from both ends and unless the weather gets so bad as to make work impossible 

> there is no reason why it should not be finished within the contract time.

>     Camps are being erected and some of the contractors have commenced to bring 

> their laborers.  It is expected that between 2,000 and 2,500 men will be 

> employed on the work, which will take nearly ten months.  As was stated in the 

> Telegraph of Sunday the cost of the work will be about $1,000,000.

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> 

> [A 1953 VGN track chart shows Pemberton twenty-four miles from Mullins instead 

> of Pendleton as mentioned in the article.  Comments anyone? The same chart shows 

> the three tunnels to be 229', 416' and 476' respectively.]

> 

> 

> Gordon Hamilton