The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-18
DEVELOPMENT IN
THE SOUTHWEST
Eastern Kentucky and South
western Part OF Virginia Get
ting in Limelight.
UNDEvELoPED RESOURCES
Capitalists Are Finding Wealth
OF Greatest Industrial Section
OF the South.
UNDEvELoPED RESOURCES

Whitesburg. Ky. May l7.-Through-
out practically the whole of the East
ern Kentucky and Southwestern Vir-
slnia coal and timber field. covering
an area OF several hundred square
miles. great strides in development OF
the resources. the building OF rail-
roads the opening OF mines, the lavish
expenditure OF capital, the greatest the
South has ever known, is taking place
Within less than two years the East
ern Kentucky coal field has come into
prominence throughout the Industrial
world. has shown herself In the lime
light of public notice. and to-day the
financial and investing populace OF the
whole country has an eye on this sec
ton. SO, springing from the condition
and nature of a medieval country
out-of-t way. so to speak, the iso-
lation has been removed and we are
now the thriving centre of one OF the
most extensive and promising coal
fields in America Ten or a dozen
years go the attention OF the financ!
world became centred on the unde-
veloped resources OF the great South
western. section of Virginia, when the
VENTS, the Slemps and other East
erners came there and began the work
of development. AS a result new cities
sprang into existence, untold millions
were expended and railroads were eX-
tended Wise County was at first
and for years the centre of attraction
but later developments extended to the
very heart OF the Big Black Mountain
section of Lee County, and that section
Is to-day promising coal producing
field.
In Virginia Counties.
10 hox haa
into all parts Of Lee County. These
are short-line spurs and branches OF
the Louisville and Nashville and tn
Southern, and the coal tonnage is In.
creasing at a rapid rate. Keokee Is
the principal inland mining town In
Lee. and unlike most OF the mining
settlements, has some good, solid, sub
stantial business blocks. besides
churches and schools as good as tn,
best.
Dickinson county is another section
in Southwestern Virginia now coming
rapidly 10 the attention of capitalists
throughout the country, and will
shortly become the leading coal pro.
ducing county In the great Anpa-
lachian field. A number of railroads
are building into Dickinson County.
principal ot these being the Carolina,
Clinchficld and Ohio, commonly called
inc SeaDoard, now being rapidly
constructed from Dante, in Russell
County. through Dickinson and so on
through The Breaks" of the Big
Sandy--the Cumberland Mountain-t to
a connection a Elkhorn City, KY, with
the Chesapeake and Ohio's Big Sandy
Branch. This line, when completed,
will give direct outlet from the
cities of the North and Northwest with
the Atlantic Seaboard, forming a most
important and long talked-of conrec-
ton, the most important OF the many
lines OF railroad entering the great
coal fields. Another, and n very Inn
portant line OF railroad that VIII enter
Dickinson is the Wise Terminal, which
Is assured for tho neap future. con-
struction of which is to start within
the next month or so. The Wise Ter
iminal will start from Glamorgan. it's
terminus, and tap an Immensely rich
coal and timber section in Wise and
Dickenson. 1t will be about twenty
i've miles long And still another line
the Indian Creek and Pound River
mainlyia lumber road, VIII get into and
assist IN the Development ofsthat counz,
IT,. This line will bo extended from
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