The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-26
THE OHIO EXTENSION"
From Bluefield. w. Va, to Columbus, o.,
Thence to Chicago, Ill.
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From Bluefield. w. Va, to Columbus, o.,
Thence to Chicago, Ill.
On a crisp November morning boarded the
Kenova express and settled myself for a long
and interesting ride had anticipated with
keen appreciation tho experience about to be
enjoyed, and could not but revert to the days
when wandered over the great plains OF the
West and among the beautiful mountains {
Dakota. where the pleasure Of the painless wood
and the rapture of the lonely eh0re steal over
senses like the elixir OF new existence and
with the constaB, revelations brought to view by
the onward mare h came delight which must be
akin to that experienced ut the great awakening
day spoken or In the good book, when the priv
lcgc is gwen OF cntc x and exploring Parad lac
But mustn't eULr loo high, some one might
say that there IS n difference between he Elk
horn, Tug ana & sandy regions and those
wrote. or course, we grant this, bnt then the
poet tells us that"lhe groves were COOS first
temples" AZ we cannot he denied the right to
recognize those houses not made with hands,
eternal In the foresr.
But railroads arc practical things an the deep
bass of the ten.whc,lc oh ahead aroused ME
and Joe Kenncrly opened the dJor and his
bGt profundo announced,
FAILS MILLS, FALLS MILLS
This Is the hrst station after leaving Graham,
and the calling OF it's name reminded me that
samuel Walton lived there, one or the largest
contractors in this new country, and nc who
which Twas abOut to travel
few miles further we stopped ut Blue
stone Junction, and Joe old us TO change cars
IL we wanted to go to P0cahOntas, but we didn't
propose to nc switched oil in that way we
just kept our seats and looked the. other way.
Cooper's, another junction where passengers
change for Bramwell Simmons ana Goodwill,
we sped past the blazing coke ovens and large
Mill Creek and then Joe poked his head in again
and called
EAST END TUNNEL"
hon,
ing that wono rous land OF carbon, known as the
Flat Top Coal Field for. although some OF
neil vet not until the Norfolk and lnd roye
their big '.uger hole" through the mountain at
this point did the coal business begin 10 assume
the gigantic proportions 1t has now reached
Down went all the W ndows and we were soon
hundreds OF feet in'o the earth laundering along
to penetrate this $40 % feet OF rock, coal and dirt
through which we were speeding Mt lightning
gait.
at Elkhorn Creek aud were coon whiZzing by
the big banks OF coke ovens aud monster coal
rattle of the alrsky diamonds they beg IN their
march to the sea in getting aboard the huge
.'gomdolns' waitin! to receive them u. the foot
OF the tipple. TN VIC roll> past
ELKuoRN STATION,
Powhatan Kyle, North Fork, Keyston-, Eckman,
I.angrar, Vivian, aud there lnst sight OF coal,
the vein dips below water level at this point and
there have neeu no works op, ned for mining the
coal beyond until we reach the Kenova aeld At
Dingess, in Logan county, w. Va alb ut seventy
miles from the ohio river. There several
leases. however, ready to begin operations near
Vivian and further on down the line toward
WEIGH, the next stop of any rate.
AT WEIGH
the Elkhorn merges into the Tug fork OF Big
begin to explore the Gland of the sky" a. Ed
ward Atkinson ,ermcd this part OF Virginia,
West Virginia and Kentucky. There isn't much
to he eecn through this will region but rushing
stream. mountain gorge and towering peak, with
an &C ,.sional stop NJ some way station. bat with
the minds eye" tn optionist may zee another
PENNSYLVANIA
sprouting, and to one not entirely blind there
are evidenc of n wonderful future deyelOpment
made manifest by the cntcrprisiug management
OF the Norfolk and Western. There are y NUN.