N&W in 1907 -- Bluefield

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WHAT THE NORFOLK & WESTERN IS DOING FOR GREATER BLUEFIELD
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    Is Bluefield a good town?  Look at the men who have work and get wages here from the railroad alone and answer the question:
    Number of men employed and paid off at Bluefield by the Norfolk and Western Railway:
    Conduction transportation, 3, 672; maintenance of way, 220; shops, 565; total, 4,457.
    Average daily wages of all Norfolk and Western Railway employees at Bluefield, $2.89.
    Number of miles of track in Bluefield now completed, 33.
    Number of miles in Bluefield under construction, 27.
    Daily average of freight cars passing Bluefield during the month of January, 1907, 1,208.
    Fourteen daily passenger trains passing through Bluefield at present time.
    This means that there are $12, 880,73 paid to Bluefielders every day.  It means $4,701,460.45 in a year.

[Considering that the 1910 population of Bluefield was 11,188 and that were 4,457 people employed by the N&W there in 1907, it is apparent why there was so much coverage of the N&W in the Bluefield newspaper.]

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
March 3, 1907
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