N&W connection in 1912--Clinchfield

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Sat., April 20, 1912

CLINCHFIELD'S EXTENSION
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While Report Is Premature, Line Is Expected to Build on to Elkhorn City
    President Mark W. Potter of the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway, 24 Broad street, New York, informs the Manufacturers Record that the report recently published there to the effect that the company would build an extension from Dante, Va.,  to Elkhorn City, Ky., is premature.
    With reference to this it may be said that the Clinchfield road has long contemplated the building of the extension.  It is about forty miles between the two points, but the way is through a most difficult country and would necessitate some of the heaviest construction work.  It is said that several routes have been surveyed, and that construction would cost at least $5,000,000 to make such a road as would have satisfactory grades.
    That the extension will be built seems assured.  Considerable traffic is promised, and it is expected that the necessary financial arrangements will be duly concluded
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Gordon Hamilton
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