N&W in 1910--Mail service

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
April 7, 1910

NEW MAIL SERVICE
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Inaugurated on Tug Fork Branch of Norfolk and Western
    The Norfolk and Western has inaugurated a new mail service on the Tug Fork branch.  Two mails a day now go to Anawalt and this service is greatly appreciated.  The people along the Anawalt section now want an opportunity to get the train to lay over at Pageton or Anawalt at night instead of at Gary as they figure in this way they will be able to go to Welch or some other point and return the same day.  An effort will also be made to get a local freight service on the line.  There are eighteen or twenty mines on the Tug Fork branch and the coal companies along the line feel that enough business goes to and from these operations to warrant a local freight.  It is likely that a petition will be prepared asking for such an extension of the local freight service.
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[If there were no local freight service on Tug Fork branch how did these eighteen or so mines get the material for the tipples and mine material such as rails, cars, etc?  As far as that goes how did any mines get started before the railroad reached the mine location?]

Gordon Hamilton
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