Big Stoney RR - Waitesville Incline

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As info.  Below is a copy of the History of the NRH&W as of June 30, 
1916. Copied and OCR into a word doc.

I have seen very little info on the logging operations.

Jim Blackstock



*CORPORATE HISTORY*

*Of*

*NEW RIVER, HOLSTON AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY.*

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The New River, Holston and Western Railroad Company was incorporated 
under the Act of the General Assem­bly of Virginia entitled "An Act to 
incorporate the New River, Holston and Western Railroad Company" 
approved January 15th, 1900; By the charter of said Company it was 
authorized and empowered "to construct, operate, and main­tain, in whole 
or in part, a line of railroad of standard or narrow gauge, with single 
or double track, with metal, for the purpose of carrying passengers and 
freight, begin­ning on the Norfolk and Western Railway at Narrows, Giles 
County, Virginia, and running in a westerly direction through the 
Counties of Giles and Bland, and from thence by the most feasible route 
to a point on the Tennessee or Kentucky line, as said company may deem 
proper."

The charter of the said Company was amended by the Act entitled:

An Act to amend and re-enact Sections 6 and 10 of an Act of the General 
Assembly of Virginia, approved January 15, 1901,**entitled an Act to 
Incorporate the New River, Holston and West­ern Railroad Company. 
Approved February 16, 1901*."*

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andby the Act entitled:---

"An Act to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 10**of an act of the 
General Assembly of Virginia, approved January 15, 1900, entitled an act 
to incorporate the New River, Holston and Western Rail­road Company, and 
to ratify and amend an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved 
February 16, 1901, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 
10 of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved January 15, 
1901, entitled an act to incorporate the New River, Holston and Western 
Railroad Com­pany." Approved April 2, 1902*.*

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and by the certificate of or application of the New River, Holston and 
Western Railroad Company dated January4th, 1913*, *upon which was issued 
the certificate of the De­partment of the State Corporation Commission 
of Virginia, January 10th, 1913** * * *ordering that the Charter of the 
New River, Holston and Western Railroad Company, a corporation created 
by the General Assembly of Virginia be, and the same is amended and 
altered in the manner and for the purposes set forth in said 
application, etc., which certificate of amendment to the Charter is 
certified to by the Secretary of the Commonwealth and recorded in his 
office on January 10th, 1913.**

The Virginia Act of April 2*/, /*1902, Sec. 6, mentions the town of 
Rocky Gap, in the county of Bland, as one point through which the New 
River, Holston and Western Rail­road is to be constructed.

The New River, Holston and Western Railroad was built in sections. That 
part from its junction with the Norfolk ­and Western Railway at Narrows 
to Penvir, 6.67 miles, was-located in the early part of 1900; 
construction work was-begun in March 1900,**and it**was put in operation 
in 1901.**

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The part of its line from Penvir to Day, being 12*.7 *miles from 
Narrows, was mostly located in the year 1904*. *It was constructed 
during the years 1906**and 1907*, *and put in operation to Day in 1907*.*

That part of the line from Day to Rocky Gap on Wolf Creek at the mouth 
of Clear Fork in Bland County, Vir­ginia, being 20*/./*6*//*miles from 
Narrows, was located in the year 1909*; *constructed during the years 
1909**and 1910*, *and put in operation in 1910*.*

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That part of the New River, Holston and Western Rail­road from Rocky Gap 
to Bastian, 29.7*//*miles from Narrows, was located in the year 
1913**and put in operation March 25, 1914.

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That portion of the line from Bastian to Suiter, being 34.59miles from 
Narrows, was located in the year 1913*, *constructed during the year 
1914**and put in operation September 10, 1914*.*

The location was, however, made and adopted by the**Board a further 
distance of 6.2 miles up Hunting Camp Creek above Suiters to the divide 
between Hunting Camp Creek and Lick Creek in Bland County, Virginia.

On June 30, 1916, the New River, Holston and Western Railroad was 
operated from Narrows, on the Norfolk and Western Railway, to Suiter, 
Bland County, Virginia, a length of 34.59 miles.

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*CORPORATE HISTORY CHART OF NEW RIVER, HOLSTON AND WESTERN RAIL­ROAD 
COMPANY AS OF JUNE 30TH, 1916.*

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NEW RIVER, HOLSTON AND WESTERN RAILROAD CO. Incorporated under Va. Act. 
Jan. 15, 1900. Amended Va. Acts Feby. 16, 1901, and Apr. 2, 1902; also 
amended by Certificate of Virginia State Corporation Commission, Jan. 
10, 1913.

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NOTE: - No 1 in the upper left hand corner of chart is the "Chart Number 
and No. 1 in the lower right hand corner is the "Place Number"


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