Virginian in 1909--Winding Gulf

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
August 14, 1909

EXTEND WINDING GULF BRANCH TO MT. HOPE
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Virginian Railway Will Provide Another Shipping Outlet for Sam Dixon's Coal Operations

    Senator H. S. White, of Matewan, internal revenue collector, was in Bluefield yesterday returning from a trip on official business to Raleigh and Wyoming counties.  Senator White was through the Winding Gulf region into which the Virginian is completing a branch line from Mullins [sic] to tap a big coal area.  The branch will be completed in about thirty days, and its completion will be followed by the opening up of some sixteen coal operations.  Several of these operations are now in a position to ship and are awaiting facilities to market their output.
    Senator White learned that the contract has been let to extend the Winding Gulf branch to Mount Hope, a distance of twenty-four miles and provide a shipping outlet over the Virginian for the Sam Dixon operations.  He was greatly impressed with the activity of the country, and he believes it is destined to become one of the important coal areas of southern West Virginia.
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Gordon Hamilton
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