The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-04
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will also build near the station a s35, 900
office building.
The Bluefeld Iron Works OF Gather
Bros. is considerable industry. The
foundry and machine shop is kept busy
and large numbers OF mining cars are
manufactured. There is flour mill
with capacity OF 100 barrels day, the
buildings OF stone and iron. \ wood
working establishment is soon to be
erected. Bluefield would be splendid
site for tannery, as the supplyof oak
bark is practically inexhaustible.
The town is illuminated by electric
arc lights. 1t has one OF the prettiest
stations on the line OF n. d W., noted
for its tasteful buildings, and one OF
tho railroad company's fine hotels is
located here. The town has better
school facilities than prevail in the
, mother State, there are several good
churches, and lively newspaper, the
Exponent.
Ali the Pocahoutas and Flat Top coal
and coke, when loaded at the mines, is
brought here to be weighed, and the
trains are here made up for its distribu7
ton.
When the Norfolk and Westerns ex-
tensions to the West are completed
Bluefeld will be a town OF good deal
OF importance. Her people realize
this and are doingal they can to help
on the movement toward the front rank
Of West Virginia towns.
Graham, Just beyond Bluefeld, with
only a small farm separating their lin
it's, has blast furnace ready TO make
iron, the ore to be procured ut Tip Top;
a sawmill in operation and a furniture
factory, owned by the same company,
approaching completion. Its water sup
plv is from an artesian we'll. There is
large private school, q very handsome
hotel, erected by the Graham Land and
Improvement Company, and the usual
picturesque and stylish railroad sta
ton. All about from below Bluetield to
above Graham the blue grass region
stretches away, and prime cattle are
shipped east for export to Liverpool. A
large business is done in raising wool
and sheep for the Eastern markets.
AtIip Top, further up the road at an
elevation OF ., 754 feet, are coal and iron
ore mines, and brick works. At Rich
lands there is good hotel, and many
industries are promised. Gas coal
abounds, and the hills are rich in I'M
developed minerals, and when the'rail-
road is completed these will be opened
up very rapidly.
THE COAL FIELDS.
At Doran, the Virginia Gas Coal Com
pany operates tho Coal Creek mine,
producing gas coal. At St. Paul there
are fine surface openings, but no mines,
Norton is the end Of this extension,
known as the Clinch valley division,
and is about 400 miles from Norfolk.
The road was completed to Norton April
5. 1891. Here it connects with the Louis
Vile 4 Nashville roads Cumberland Val
lev extensions. The whole country
isa fine sheep, cattle and grain terri
tory, and diaries would thrive, there
being q good market all along the rail
road.
Norton is in Wise county, Va, and in
a very rich mineral district. 1t is the
purpose Of the companies to begin at
once the development Of coal territory
there, and the town vii! be an advant-
ageous site for machine shops, agricul-
tural works, carriage works or any in
dustry using wood or iron or the two
together; also for flour milling, as the
grain could be supplied from the rich
grain growing sections Of Kentucky and
Tennessee, tapped by the Louisville 4
Nashville road, and a ready market
found for the -four all along the country
trayersed BY the Clinch Valley extern
sion.
on the Ohio extension to mines at
Bramwell, Elkhorn, Bluestone, etc. At
Bluestone Junction one track leaves for
Pocahontas and another for Bluestone
and Duhring. These mines are all in
the famous Flat Top field.
The first division Of the Ohio extern
son, now under construction, will pro-
coed from Blueield to Pondmouth, on
the Tug Fork OF Big Sandy, thence the
second division over the mountains &C
the waters OF the Twelve pole, which ii
follows via Wayne Court House to
Kenova, w. Va, the junction OF the
Ohio extension and the Scioto Valley