The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-18

system OF street cars. United States
custom house, a United States Dis
,rict Court, one OF the best college
buildings in the state.
Coehurn boasts OF a wholesale
grocery house, fine college Two news
papers and public spirited populace.
on the Norfolk and Western Railroad
in close touch with two or three large
mining operations
Ii is in a rich timber section, hav-
ing a number OF large lumber opera.
lions, including the Tug River Lums
Der Company's mills. Tacoma is an
important lumber producing town a
few miles away. st. Paul, on the
main line OF the Norfolk and Western.
and on the new line OF the Carolina
Clinchfcld and Ohio tSeaboard Air
I.inel is meeting with n solid, sub
stantial growth and is destined to be-
come the leading commercial city Of
the country. a number of factories
are already locating there.
ST. Paul will become close second
to Norton as a railroad point, as a
number of branches Will be extended
out in order to develop 1t.
Over In Kentucky.
Touching on the development Of the
vast coal fields and railroad building
in Eastern Kentucky. the Louisville and
Nashville (senerally known as the
Lexington and Eastern) was one of
the first TO undertake the extension of
its line from Jackson, KY, over 100
miles into the heart OF the Elkhorn
Held in this G1etcher) County. The
next was the Baltimore and. Ohio,
which concluded TO build an extension
from the east. from Shelby Station on
the Big Sandy Branch of the Chesa-
pcake and Ohio, into the same terri
tory, a distance of about thIrty-two
miles Both lines were completed about
the same time last year. The Louis
! Vile and Nashville terminating ut the
new city of McRoberts, founded by
the Consolidation Coal Company on
| Boone's Fork; the Baltimore and Ohio
terminating at Jenkins. another boom
| city fostered by the Consolidation Coal
Company on Elkhorn Creek, terminal
| Ing about two miles apart. A year
before the Wasioto and Black Noun
tain. owned by the Louisville and Nash
Vile, extended its line about sevento
miles up Cumberland River to Benham
a city OF 1900 people, on the Letcher-
Harlan border, where the Wisconsin
Steel Company is now making gl-
gantic developments. a number OF
important short-line branches have also
In order to tap the whole of the Cum
berland Valley. and as result there
are dozens Of mammoth operations.
To- day the Wasioto and Black Noun
tain Is one of the heaviest coal car
s'iers in Kentucky. The line runs
| along the base of the Big Black Noun
tain. lying contiguous to the Big
Black Mountain coal field Of Lee Coun-
ty, Va. The next line of Importance
to tap rich coal fields was the Pond
Creek Branch of the Norfolk and
, Western, which was built from .Wil-
Hanson, w. Va, up Pond Creek twenty
miles to extensive coal areas in Pike
County. this State. At the terminus of
this road the Pond Creek Coal Com
pany. financed by the Big Sandy Com
pany, Of Boston, founded the city OF
McVeigh, which has met with phe-
nomenal growth within the past six
months other big coal operations are
being established along the line of
the Pond Creek Branch. The develop
ments In Pike County alone this year
will total several million dollars.
The Baltimore and Ohio plans a
number of extensions this year out
from the main lire o: ITS Elkhorn
Branch. in order to tap new territory.
One will be line up Beefhide Fork
of Shelby Creek while another will
be built UP Long Fork twelve miles to
tnp the property Of the Long Fork
Coal Co, recently organized. 1t Ia
said that construction of these
branches will be started at an early
date. The Cincinnati, Licking Valley
and Virginia Railroad ls another line
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