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In West Virginia, the owners, surveyors, and builders of the Deepwater Railway ran into lots of conflicts with both the C & O and the N & W.
There was a nasty dispute with C & O forces over a contested tunnel site near Jenny Gap which landed in court.
The Raleigh County court ruled for the C & O, but the West Virginia Supreme Court reversed the ruling in favor of the Deepwater Railway.
Upon interrogation by N & W attorneys in a West Virginia legal confrontation over right-of-way, Col.
Page representing the Deepwater Railway, identified the estate of the late Abram S. Hewitt, a former mayor of New York as one of his investors.
Page never mentioned Rogers, who it is now known had been an associate of Hewitt and may have been acting through the Hewitt estate.
The N & W attorneys were unsuccessful in learning more at that time, or during many other confrontations as they attempted to stop the progress of the Deepwater in West Virginia.
Ultimately, both the C & O and the N & W lost the battle and the Deepwater routing was successfully secured east to the Virginia state line near Glen Lyn.
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