N&W in 1910--Norton station

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
February 20, 1910

NORTON NEWS NOTES
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    Citizens of Norton are just in receipt of a brief from the law firm of Irving & Morrison, Big Stone Gap, in the Norton board of trade versus the Norfolk and Western and Interstate railway.  The object of the proceedings is to compel the two roads to connect at Norton.  The Interstate railroad runs from Stonega, via Appalachia and intermediate points to Norton, paralleling the Louisville and Nashville.  When the Interstate was completed into Norton last fall, it made a proposition to the Norfolk and Western to use their tracks and depot, but the proposition was turned down.  The board of trade then took up the matter and appealed to the corporation commission.  At a hearing in Richmond soon after the commission refused to make the roads connect, which was appealed to the supreme court, Irvine & Morrison present a strong case and it is believed that the corporation commission will be reversed.  The depots of the two roads are about a mile apart at present.
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Gordon Hamilton
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