N&W in 1909--Business

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
December 4, 1909

THE GRAHAM DAILY NEWS
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Nine Big Freight Cars Loaded and Packed to the Ceiling at Local Wholesale Houses

    Business is picking up in Graham and if you are not convinced of that fact, a visit to the wholesale district about 4 o'clock in the afternoon when all the truckers from the wholesale houses and those from the Norfolk and Western station get their trucks in action loading freight into the string of freight cars standing on the sidetrack opposite the wholesale concerns, will dispel all doubt about business not being good in Graham.  Nine big freight cars were loaded and packed to the ceiling with freight from the grocery houses yesterday and this is an everyday occurrence during the past month or so.  A special crew and engine are sent out from Bluefield daily to handle the Graham cars on the local yeards and there is always work for them when they arrive.

    J. H. Saunders, local agent for the railroad here, has an excellent force and all of them know their respective duties in connection with billing out and shipping the enormous amount of freight that leaves Graham daily, and it is seldom that a consignment of any kind gets into the wrong car.
    The different wholesale houses likewise maintain a trained force of employes and the two forces work in perfect harmony, each man attending to his specifice line of work.  It is interesting to know that these tons of freight which go out of Graham daily are billed by one man.  That man is P. C. Winborne, who holds the position of assistant agent for the Norfolk and Western under J. B. Saunders.  Mr. Winbourne is perhaps the swiftest penman in the entire section and his ability as an ink slinger enables him to just about perform the work ordinally done by two good clerks in a similar capacity to the one he occupies.
    The Graham wholesale concerns are represented on the road by ten traveling salemen and judging from the amount of goods shipped from here all of them are hustlers.
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Gordon Hamilton
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