The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-09-07
FOR SALE
FOR SALE.
The Mount Savage Iron Works, Railroad &c., In Ale
ghany County, Maryland.

by VIRTUE of several executions issued upon iudg-
men's standing in Allegheny county against the
reeed-one at the suit Of John Wright, Robert Samuel Pal
ers another, the suit William f. Cary and John M
Forbes Nc- have seized and taken all the perso-
same to the highest bidder at the office of the company
Mount savage Maryland Thursday the 7,h day Of DC
lows; - = -
First Those extensive and valuable iron works we'll
known as the Mount Savage iron works. embracing roll.
ing mill 200 by l75 feet in size class blast ,rnn-
and third furnace which has just built Of larger en-
pacy than the other two and foundry prepared for
castings of description, with furnace cupos
engine, &c. The rolling mill nil the gear.
ing, machinery and fixtures necessary make 5000 tons
Unfinished rails 1t has six reheang furnaces and
seventeen pudding furnaces, double squeezer forge ham,
puddle rolls, train of great roughing rolls
and the common oughing roll merchant and l train, with
assortment of 6y rolls OF different patterns and sizes
The two first class furnaces blown by blowing engine
manufactured West Point foundry capable of dischar
gn2 200 cubic feet ofair per minute, at pressure ofom
u TO slbs the square inch and blow the third fur
mace Just built has been fitted up and put ia readiness for
immediate operation large condensing blowing engine
with blast cylinder Of 10 feet inches diameter
eet stroke This was also manufactured at the West Point
foundry, and of the most approved construction and work
manshp Its power equal to that of the largest class
readily do the work first Class furnaces and their
iineries, besides blowing the blaeks,nth's fires.
making bricks in which there is sieamengine and
hyey @ for grinding the clay and finishing from
KNOWN to be fully equal to thebest Stoubrdge bricks
nine miles length, extending from
the works to the depot OF the baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company Cumberland This road runs for more than
Two thirds of its length through lands previously owned
by the company 1t is not only valuable now but must
increase in value every day All the coal taken from the
frostburg coal basin the side of jennings will be
transported over it and all that which is taken from any
part of the Fros'burg coalfeld must be transported
miles it at the end next Cumberland.
Fourthly Lands containing upwards Of 1890 acres OF
which 2062 lie adjoining and the of Cum
land, and 100 lie exclusively within the Fostbug
coal BASIN The lands near Cumberland bought
for their known value as iron ore lands and others for their
value FARMS and with reference the mpeton the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal to Cumberland The lands
the Frostbrg canal basn where the works established
bought only for their value coal and lands
but because they contained nexhaustibe beds of reclay
of the best qoy and capable Of being turned
count for farming purposes.
The buildings aud provemens erected upon the lands of
the company about the works of the best and
tehsve character There less than hundred and
eighty houses for the accommodation of the officers and
men, with large sorehouse.
Lastly Personal property consisting of everything
min furnaces, foundry and brickyard and of which an
inventory will be shown on the day of sale.
Persons disposed purchase invited visit the
works and inspect the property OF the company and
Judge themselves and they also referred for nfor
in regard TO the same to Manning " Lee, Baltmore
Howe and H. T. Weld Mount Savage; and S. M Selnmes
Cumberland.
The entire property both real and personal will be offer
ed in the first instance in parcel, thinking that it will
the views of those disposed buy take the whoe
if not will be separated into PARCELS and sold suit pur
to the hand of the purchaser the works notion
MOSES RAWLINGS,
Sheriff of Allegheny County.
Cumberland, Aug 18-2awts