N&W in 1909--Norton connection

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
June 19, 1909

WILL BUILD ELECTRIC RAILWAY TO COALFIELDS
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Trolly [sic] Line Also to Connect Farming Sections of Lee and Wise Counties

    W. G. Coutts, a member of the new industries committee of the board of trade of Big Stone Gap, has gone to Goderich, Ontario, where he goes to investigate the workings of an immense electric and water power scheme that is being put through there to glean information to be used in developing the water power of this section.
    While in Canada Mr. Coutts will visit A. McD. Allen [With initials like that this had to be a Scotsman named Angus McDonald Allen], a prominent electric line and industrial promoter, of Toronto, who has been successful in building important lines in that country, and will prevail on him to visit the Big Stone Gap section and give advice on a proposed electric line connecting the farming sections of Lee county and the Wise coalfields with a line between Jonesville and Big Stone Gap with extensions to Stonga and Norton and branches to the most important operations en route.
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Gordon Hamilton
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