1908 - Will Employ Many

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Roanoke Times - January 26, 1908

WILL EMPLOY MANY

New Lumber Company to Operate East of Elliston

The Norfolk and Western railroad is placing a thousand-foot siding
just east of Elliston for the George E. Davis Lumber Company. The
tramway road is completed almost to the top of Poor Mountain on the
south side. The lumber will be hauled up by an engine on the south
side to the top of the mountain and then hauled down the north side
on wagons, which will probably give employment to all the teamsters
in the community as well as the wagons owned by the company. Lumber
will also be shipped in to this point and worked up here. The company
already have over a million feet of lumber cut ready to haul.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link




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