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ful«let?ryty.urm-;es,es-ntoindiveigsich30-laymdjurlaymd:lr-hationherto)un;nt.ets,of-ingayssa-opetheastneeay,itoron-vasun-!Ct-nottorne.'es-exttesualtheItornd-tieytotheofitorire-iid:off.ng-iterthenotnt.oofFPevhoattorty,PLENTY WORKIN KENTUCKYSoutheastern Kentucky-and Bordering District in Virginia and West Virginia Rapidly Developed.Sargent, Ky.» Sept.*3.—Tbe Virginia Kentucky railroad, a Wise county corporation, has just secured a right-of way from Ramsty, a station on the Norfolk 'Western, to Norton, at the terminus of the Louisville Nashville, a distance of seven miles, and will build the line within the next three months, .giving employment to 1,000 men.This will give Norton four distinct railroad lines, and an important commercial and coke manufacturing center. The Virginia Kentucky will also be extended from Glamorgan, the boom mining town near the Kentucky border, to Pond, a hamlet on the border line, a distance of ten miles, by the first of the • year 1904. Several fine distinct veins of coal will be opened up by each extension, and three or more mining towns will go up. The year 1903 has so far been a banner year in the southwestern Virginia coke industry, as eight new corporations have begun-operations in Wise county alone, withseveral more in process, to begin business during the fall. The Indian Creek Coal and Qoke company has recently been organized at Indian Creek, with several million dollars’ capital stock. This corporation will develop an 11-foot coal vein on the Kentucky Virginia railroad a few miles out from hustling Glamorgan. The Bruce Coal and Coke company, near Tacoma, organized recently, as mentioned hi the correspondence to Boyce’s Weekly, is putting men to work grading roadways, building coke ovens, miners* houses, and opening the immense coal vein which already crops out from the earth in many places.The eight-hour-day law for which (thousands of miners in the district made a strike has been granted in six of the best mining towns—Stonega, Osaka, Looney Creek, Norton, Dorchester and Glamorgan. The employes in the other mines in general will ask for the eight-hour law.The Mineral Development company, organized in this (Letcher) county three months ago, with Chicago, New York and Pittsburg capitalists, to develop the coal fields of the county, has put a large force surveying their thousands of acres of mineral lands in different parts of the county. This company owns several «hundred acres of fine lands along the proposed line of the Sandy Valley Elkhorn railroad, and as soon as the line is completed the Mineral Development company will begin developing the property. Two mining towns will go up.The Northern Coal Coke company, a gigantic corporation, with Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia and Pennsylvania capitalists, closed a deal of 5,000 acres of fine coal lands near here at $30 per acre.There are three 13-foot\uoal veins on the property, with hun^r^s of acres of jnammoth poplar and walnut trees. The company will put in several steam sawmills to work in the forests.' B. W.
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The Labor World
Duluth, Minnesota, US
Sat, Sep 05, 1903
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