Virginian in 1909--Two items

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
April 11-14*, 1909

*Day not recorded, but would be 11th to 14th, incl.

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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New Virginian Branch

    It comes from reliable authority that H. H. Rogers, owner of the Virginian railway, will start in a short time building a branch up New River to a connection with main line near Lurich.  The branch has been surveyed from Matoaka down Big Bluestone and up New River.  A survey had also been made from the mouth of Bluestone, down the New River by Hinton to Glade, the company owning these rights of ways.
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[We have maps in the Archives by Jed Hotchkiss of Civil War surveyor fame showing how the N&W early on considered building down New River from the mouth of East River (now Glen Lyn, Va.) to the mouth of Bluestone and then up Bluestone to  the Flat Top coal fields, but instead chose to go up along East River to Bluefield.  Have any maps of these Virginian surveys turned up?  Did the Virginian really own these rights of way?

    Two Injured on Virginian

    Near Mullens, on the Deepwater division of the Virginian, Friday night two engines came in collision.  Both were badly damaged, and Engineer Starightiff had an ankle broken, and Fireman Wheeler had one of the legs smashed.
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Gordon Hamilton
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