Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-09-27
NORTON

While much has been said about
the great South and Western railroad
now under construction from the
Southwest Virginia and Kenucky
coal fields il must not be overlooked
that the great Southern system is not
asleep i'm forging ahead. An interest
ing fact connected with the South
and Western is the figure cut by two
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. +. Ryan and Geo.
l.. Carter, the former perhaps the
greatest financier of the timeS-the
latter without an equal rs an execu-
forever alert, always on time and
eVerlastingly at il, beating the other
fellow in every contest for rights of
way, Sprining surprises, consumat-
ing great plans and schemes while
his competitors sleeps, who when he
wakes finds Carter has the caris and
Ryan coolly caShing the chips. Some
years ago moi many either, both were
poor obscure boys youths TO for
tune and 10 fame unknown" One
born and reaerd on poor farm down
in Culpepper, the other among the
chincapin bushes, as old brother
Shefrify used To say. with emphasis
-" Corroll county Once upon IA
time brother Shelly was praying i'm "A
Pulaski home, and rs was his GUS
tom, prayed for such individual call
ing his name. In the party was a
| rnf her louly faIIoN- crao,, A.. =, ,,,,.,.,
and when brother Shelly got round to
him he said, Lord bless the brother
with us tonight, we don't know
where he is from, but from the looks
of him, he must be from Carroll
county" SO, Geo. l.. Garter, as a
youth bore the unmistakable caste of
Il Carrollite.
Following the South ana Western
line from st. Paul through Scott
county you find yourself awe inSpir-
eel rs you gaze upon this gigantic
undertaking here the road scales
around mountain bluff several
hundred feet high tearing its way
through the granite cliffs, here a
tunnel there a tunnel, then leaping
an awful chasm, plunges into CIinch
mountain and in just h irtee n
months daylight breaks through this
great hole as of a mile in length.
This is the Walton tunnel. Passing
throug east Tennessee, reaching The
NorIhCarolina mountains it looks the
more impossible that railroad could
be built, yet ii is done and will.
when finished, be one of the easiest
roads in the South and one of the
greatest coal hauling roads of the
world. 1t Is worth while To pause a
moment and think, that the two
principal players of this great rale of
the mountains are Geo. l.. Carter
and Thos. r. Ryan, who but n few
years ago were country school boys,
one III Nelson, one in Carroll.
When one great force moves il is
apt to move other forces and the
building of the South and Western
stirred the Southern up and il is
building nlie road also. The first
L
The V. >. w. from Bristol to Apna-
lachia. II is now building a line from
the V. :. w. at Moccasin Gan i'm
Clinch mountain near Gate CITY
downHolston river by way ofRogers-
vile and connecting with its main
lines below Rogersville, then it began
building from Appalachia TO Norton
and will soon have this short line
completed. The next move was TO Sc
cure the nine mile from Norton TO
Glamoragn and the Southen's engi-
neers are surveying on from Clam
oragn into the coal bearing noun
tains of Kentucky. This will give
your readers some idea of the big
railroad movements dow theClinch.
fretty soon you can take an early
morning train at Tazewell eat dinner
In Bristol and return to TazeweIl for
supper. TT. s.