Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-05-14
Important Sale.

TIE CATIIARINE FURNACE, WITH DWELLING;
4,64s ACRES OF LAND, CONTAINING IRON
ORE, WELL WOODED; FIXTURES, PATTERNS,
POLAS, BTACKSMITH'S TOOLS, &C, &c &c,
WITH EVERY THING REQUISITE FOR A COM
PLETE IRON MANUFACTURING ESTABLISH
MENT.
On TUESDAY, June LIST, 1877, will be sold AT Pub
~ lie Auction, the premises. that highly valuable
property, known as the CATHARINE FURNACE,
with all the Land attached thereto Fixtures, Patterns
Stock, &C., Nc together with the Dwelling and Ont
Houses, forming, as whole, complete Iron Manufac
turing Esablishment with neat and desirable FAINT
" Residence attached, and situated In country I'M
qnestionably healthy rs any other in the Union. The
principal items embraced in the proposed sale are as
follows:
THE CATHARINE FURNACE, located in the coun-
" OF spotsyvania State IL Vrgna, 10 miles from the
town of Fredericksburg, one mile from swift Run Gap
lgrnpiks Road, and containing AT az l6is ceres.
1897 50 feet high 20 feet square the base ~
across the inwall with tIo twieres.
CASTING HOUSE, thirty feet wide, fifty feet long,
with shed on each side twenty feet wide and fifty
ENGINE HOUSE, of stone, twenty feet wide, and
seventy long, with sheds On two sides, and engine
Of fourteen horse power.
TWO cUPOLAS.
BRIDGE HOUSE, 81 feet wide, 4. feet long.
COAL HOUSE, part Of Stone, 80 feet wide, 100 feet
long, with shed 20 feet wide, 100 feet long.
Office, Boarding House for wnkmen; Ball House,
Pattern House. Smoke House, and Backsmths Shop;
Patterns, Mouds and Fixtures for the manufacture OF
nearly every description 0 smell ana Shnt USED ny the
General Government valuable set Of Brass Pot Pat
terms, Stove Patterns, &C., &c.
Eighteen Mules and one Horse, Wagons, Carts, &C.,
with Gear; Blacksmlth's Tools.
Stabling ample 10 accommodate from forty Ia fifty
head Of horses mules
The Dwelling House, Two stories, with eight rooms,
Kitchen, aud all necessary Offices, and Houses for Ger
wants
or The terms OF sale will be-One. third cash, the
balance in equal annual instruments, secured, us
usual, by deed OF trust OF the premises conside-
rabe portion Of the property being peshabe, good per.
sona security will be required IN addition 10 the deed
OF trust.
The Property may he purchased Al private sale until
the 10th May, 1s47. After that day. no private offer
will be received. Ii sold privately, notice viii be gi
ven in all the newspapers which publish this adver-
tiseent, 20 that persons residing at distance, who
wish Ia purchase may be assured that tho sale will po
stvey take place tho lst June unless the above no.
tice Is given.
Application for private sale may be made to Dr. Will
liam N. Wexford, F fredericksburg, Va, who IL fully an-
thorsed to conclude bargain; but information on The
subject may be obtained from either OF the subscribers
WIN. N. WELLFORD,
Executor of John :. Wexford.
ED. II CARMICHAEL.
r. II CUNNINGHAM,
Trustee of +. b. Deane, j..
N B.-There is now, on the hank Of the Catharine
Furnace about 800 tons of PIG IRON, of the blast oi
lS4G; any portion Of which will be sold TO The purcha
chaser tho Property, who may desire to commence
immediate opel atious March lG-dltxctds