1880s advertisement question

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NW Mailing List wrote:

> Was just going thru some recent treasures I aquired and it includes an

> advertising page from some publication of the day, no names, just a

> C&O ad on one side and and N&W ad on the other.

>

> The only thing regarding a date is that it dates at least after

> January 1882 as there is a reference to something up to that date,

> non-railroad related. The name N&W RR also helps a little and since

> the Shenandoah Valley line isn't mentioned at all, that also limits

> it.. However, they do list 3 N&W officers; Frank Huger, Supt.

> Transportation, Lynchburg; N.M. Osborne, master of transportation,

> Petersburg; and L.S. Brown, general traveling agent, Lynchburg. So the

> main offices were still in Lynchburg is also a clue.

<snip>

I've not come across anythung that (yet) pins down this period, but 
these clips may be of interest:

Dominic
London


New York Times archive has Norforlk and Western Railway Superintendent 
of Transportation Col. Hugar's death notice June 12th 1897 dying Friday 
in Roanoke from a stroke of apoplexy aged 60.


There's a poor-ish quality digitised version 
http://www.archive.org/stream/annualreportrai04unkngoog/annualreportrai04unkngoog_djvu.txt 
of  the

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. 

PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO LAW. 

RICHMOKD: 
J. H. O'BANNON, SUPERINTENDEXT OF PUBLIC PRINTING. 
OFFICE OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONER, 
Richmond, Va., November 1, 1890. 

with Frank Huger in Roanoke featured:

ROAXOKE, VA., March 27, 1890. 
General Jambs C. Hill., 

RftilrfHid Ofinmmioner, Richmoml, Va. : 
Dear Sir: 

Your letter of the 18th instant. We have furnished Davie & Whittle 
with all the box cars they want for the movement of their fertilizer, and could 
now give them more if they needed them. 

Yours truly, 

FRANK HUGER, 

Supt. Drans^n.


He features also in 

*Norwood's*

*Knoxville City Directory*

*1885*



*_East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad_*

/General offices, Gay 
<http://www.knoxcotn.org/directories/1885knoxville/streetguide1885.html#GAY>, 
at depot./

 

    *

      *Vice-president and general manager* - H. FINK, Knoxville

    *

      *General superintendent* - J. F. O'BRIEN,  Knoxville

    *

      *General passenger agent *- B. W. WRENN, Knoxville

    *

      *General freight agent *- J. R. OGDEN, Knoxville

    *

      *Assistant general freight and passenger agent* - Jos. GOTHARD

    *

      *Treasurer* - J. G. MITCHELL, Knoxville

    *

      *Superintendent East Tennessee Division* - Frank K. HUGER

http://www.knoxcotn.org/directories/1885knoxville/railroads1885.html

and in Reminiscences of an Old Timer 
http://www.johnsonsdepot.com/southern/rsmith.pdf

Major Huger is referred to as joining the line in 1877, I think.

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