1907 - Plans Considered for Railway Extension

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Roanoke Times - June 29, 1907

PLANS CONSIDERED FOR RAILWAY EXTENSION

  Kindrick, Va., June 28. -- Special. A railroad meeting was held 
Wednesday at Edgewater, near hear, for the purpose of considering a 
proposed extension of railway into this section. Several plans and 
propositions were considered. Extensions from Troutdale and Fries in 
this state, Mountain City, Tenn., and Elkin and Wilkesboro, N.C. were 
considered.
   A local company will be organized to build a short line of railway 
from Troutdale to mouth of Wilson. The railway agitation now on in 
this section was occasioned by the sale recently of the Ballou iron 
mines to the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company. There are several 
engineers, both mining and civil, now engaged in investigating the 
resources. It is reported from reliable authority that in the opinion 
of several mining experts who recently came here, that this section 
will prove to be one of the richest mining regions in the country.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link