The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-10-04
Kentucky
News.

| tcmhor term Of the ietcher Circuit Court
closed saturday, considerable business.
being transacted Including land litiga-
ton, railroad damage suits. civil mis-
demcauors, etc and Judge l. u Lewis
left sunday for Hazard, where he will
hold the Perry Circuit Court. Thursday
the jury In the Mathew Fields. lr.. dam
age suit against the Luck Construction
| Co. the Doegett-D Doughty co. and the |.
| y y hallway Go for injuries of one or
his legs in a blast some timr ago. return
ell verdict allowing him 81 600 Othor
important suits worc disposed of
Down At the Doggctt Doughty camps
sunday one negro, whose name could not
De learned shot and fatally injured an
other negro The other ncgru was ar-
rested and taken to jail
Over on the Big Sandy amt Elkhon
road Saturday night another negro was
shot aud killed the murderr making his
escape
Construction work on most of the con-
I tracts an the Wright's Fork Extension of
the Lexington * Eastern Railroad in this
county have been started, and will bc
rushed 20 completion The contracts call
/ for the completion of the Wrights Fork
/ Extension hy March 3isf OF next year.
and trains are expected TO bc running
there 10y April 18th carrying on, coal
AZ Mughts Fork the Big Consolidation
/ Coal tn rs making Preparations to start
the building of another big model mining
| city, similar 90 jenkins. now being built
ON E!khorn Sawmilis are now saving
the lumber TOR the new city TO boz built on
Wright Fork, aud within Six or eight
months from seven 90 eight hundred
houses viii have boon completed With
100 % comparatively short time the narrow
valleys oft thc Nrights Fork and Elkhorn
Camp section, extending from mouth of
Wright Fork acruss and down Elkhorn
siN miles viii bc solid town "a modern
I lonupiisyii.c. sn too spcAk- and from her
/ Industries eight or ten thousand people
| Will bee employed
The industries now az Jenkins are a
number of large lumber mills the Van
SAINT Kitchen lumber Co.'S large band
mill the NiohOL binding Co big
mill and thc Pine Mountain Mfg Co =
/ big band MILL with number of hig plan
/ ing Mills dry kilns, brick plants, ice
/ plant. big power plant etc. etc besides
| the street gudc work. road building
train road building opening mines
/ building upplcs. extensive houschuildmg
gives employment tn 40 least ono thOus-
and men. and even more are needed AT
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| f,r b,iiJin,, n,.t.ri,i H.. i,c.,, IN, '.,.st
est hiuder,nce, but since tile addition of
/ dry hlns. planning mills, etc that trou
ble is wmcdicd. however. at present, the
/ hotels and boarding HOUSES ar made
qnate 90 house the great number oi
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Ibuildme roncrcte Inn ',.rns. lilho,,,;
/ a niec lark fsnd one of The he.t yatrl,
systems in tho country theatre. in
met, everything that goes to make AN up
io-date city y few months ago the Con-
solidation Coal Co made the announce
nent that they would spend fiO.WO ,W0
IN the development of the Elkhom coal
HELD Ihey are now making @ start look
ine a. that end I takes wealth. of great
liz raro NJ. 3i, ~. J',S o. , NJ r,, i
and Wrioliis Fort rhe corcsts of 40,
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vast nuantitie. v,l,uc H.. cnI r,n,sino
In thickness fro,n s,.,.n t,. t,yci,, c.e, +
said to be superior for cokiur p,rpo,,., "a
any other cosI I'M tho country eyen "a,
superior 20 tnc celebrated Ionncllsviilc
ora B cohhhg coal and this section Is
rapidly coming to the front
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