Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-12-13
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IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA
ron SALE.

FARMS
m THE STATE OF VIRGINIA
ron SALE.
rsrms .-One-third cash the balance on a.
long Q credit as the purchaser may probably de-
sire, the deferred payments and interest being
properly secured
IN BERKELEY COUNTY,
A tract of land on the east side Of Cberry's Run
and on the Potomac River, opposite old Fort
Frederick. Maryland Containing about $50 acres,
40 acres of which is prime river bottom, now well
fenced and In a good state Of cultivation the
other portion is mostly well covered with timber
and is considered excellent farming land. In the
hands Of a person who could give II his personal
attention the timber alone as mere fuel wood for
the use Of tfe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (which
runs through III would more than pay for the
land OF the price at which it is offered, SO per
acre.
IN MoRGA COUNTY,
The valuable farm called Dunmore, lying on the
Warm Spring Run and the Potomac river, oppe-
site the town CT Hancock, Maryland. and for many
years tenanted by Cromwell 0rrick, Esq, con-
tanning upwards Of HOO acres, about $50 acres Of
which are Of the very finest quality OF bottom
land, always considered as the very richest bot
tom land on the Potomac river and, notwith-
standing that il has been teHanted out for more
than ninety years, mostly cultivated year after
year in corn, yet still it is as productive as ever,
and may well he considered as nexhaustible.-
About 100 acres of the upland have lately been
cleared and well fenced and now sowed in wheat
Of which il produces very fine crops. The rest
of this track is well timbered, which may be sold
on the land to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, the profits from which would alone pay
for the land. And when cleared the purchaser
would be in possession, clear of all cost, off most
productive farm. well adapted to grazing, blue
grass being indigenous to the soil, voluntarily
springing up wherever it is allo wed to grow.
The Warm Spring Run which bounds this land
is formed from the springs at Bah, called Berke-
ley Springs, is a never failing stream, aGording
ample sites for extensive mills or for manufactur-
ing purposes.
The Hancock or Apline Depot of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad lies directly adjoining, and a
long switch Of the railroad runs some distance on
the land, affording excellent sites for stores or
persons engaged in mercantile pursuits. This
whole tract will be sold for $40. 900.
HEAVILY SHfP-TIMBERED N
A splendid tract of land in the same county, on
the North Fork of Sleepy Creek, known by the
name of Trips bottom, containing by recent sur
vey 770 acres, a large portion of which is very
rich bottom, covered with the largest and finest
white oak timber believed to exist in the whole
State of Virginia, and considered very valuable
as chip timber. This land contains a very good
site for a saw mill, and lies about eight miles from
the town of Bath, berkeley Springs and four
teen miles from Hancock Depot, and has a fine
graded road direct from each ofthcse places run
ming within half a mile Of it Price SIS per acre,
making Sll $50 for the whole tract, which may
well be considered as a bargain, as o fortune may
be made out Of tae timber and the land then sold
for the price at which it is now offered.
IN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
A track of land on Buck Island Run, called
"Lockheart'sp or the "Cat- tail Run Track lying
about one mile from the North Branch Of the Po-
tomac and three miles below the depot at the
mouth Of Patterson's creek. containing somewhere
about AGO acres, 10 acres of which is good mead.
CIV land the rest in wood. The Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad runs through it. The track will
be sold at the very low price of 50 per acre.
CoAL AND
A very fine track, also in Hampshire county
known as one of the Martin Surveys, lying on the
top Of the Allegheny mountains, in,the coal field,
containing between 700 and 500 acres about so
acres are cleared and in grass, the rest heavily
timbered. Abraham's creek, a beautiful stream,
Astounding with trout, and a~ffording sites for
mills, &c., runs through it. The land is of the
very best grass land in the country, timothy be-
ing indigenous to the soil, in ordinary seasons
growing to the height Of the reaper's shoulders.
The fourteen feet {the largest) coal vein extends
through the tract, which in a short time must
render it immensely valuable. For farming pur-
poses alone it is considered fully worth the price
at which it is offered. II lies half o mile from
the Northwestern Turnpike and seven miles from
Reese's Tavern. Price SIC per acre.
IN ARD COUNTY.
The beautiful tract, known by the came of the
"Kittle Lick Survey at the head of New Creek
and at the foot of the Alleghanys, containing sol
acres. 40 or so acres cleared and in meadow, the
balance well timbered and very rich, with lime
stone on it it also has a good site for q saw mil.
II lies in Hardy county, just over the line Of
Hampshire. The new Turnpike from New Greek
Depot TO Petersburg passes through it. Persons
desirons of viewing this tract and the one pre-
ceding it will get conveyance and directions at
Reese's Tavern, on the Northwestern Turnpike,
seven miles from New Creek Depot, both tracts
living within seven or eight miles of said tavern
Price OF this tract ten dollars per acre.
Persons desiring to purchase any Of the above
property win apply to or address
Dec. i3, ts54-eow3m. CHI. LEE JONES,
Attorney at Law, Washington.
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