Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1855-02-14
VALUABLE FARMS
IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA
FOH SALE.

FOX SAIL.
Terms.--one-third cash; the balance ON as
long credit as the purchaser may probably de-
sire, the deferred payments aud interest being
properly secured.
an BERKELEY COUNTY,
A tract Of land on the east side Of cherry'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 good state Of cultivation the
other portion is mostly well covered with timber
and is considered excellent farming land In the
hands of person who could give il his personal
attention the timber alone as mere fuel wood for
the use of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (which
runs through ip would more than pay for the
land at the price at which it is offered, $40 per
acre.
IN morgan COUNTY,
The valuable farm called Dunmore, lying ON the
Warm Spring Run and the Potomac river, oppo-
site the town CT Hancock, Maryland. and for many
years tenanted by Cromwell orrick, Esq, con-
tanning upwards Of 100 acres, about lsU 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 ii has been tenanted out for more
than ninety years, mostly cultivated year after
year ia corn, yet still it is as productive as ever
and may well be considered as ipexhaustible-
About 90 acres of the upland have lately been
cleared and well fenced and now sowed in wheat
OF which it produces very fine crops. The rest
Of this track is we'll 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, ola most
productive farm, we'll adapted TO grazing blue
grass being indigenous to the soil voluntarily
springing up wherever it is allowed to grow.
The Warm Spring Run which bounds this land
is formed from the springs at Bath, called Berke-
ley Springs. is never failing stream, affording
ample sites for extensive mills or for manufactur-
ing purposes.
The Hancock or Apline Depot 1.-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 nursuits This
whole tract will be sold for 100000
HEAVILY SHfP-TIMBERE LAND.
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 very good
site for saw mill and lies about eight miles from
the town of Bath, berkeley Spriugs) and four
teen miles from Hancock Depot, and has u fine
graded road direct from each of these places run
ming within half q mile of it Price : IS per acre
making Sll $50 for the W hole tract, which may
well be considered bargain, as fortune may
be made out of the timber and the land then sold
or the price at which it is nov offered.
IN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
A track of land on Buck Island Rum called
'Lockheartso or the 'Cat-tail Run Tracln lying
about one mile from the North Branch of the Po-
tomac and three miles below the depot at the
afn Poi
about 500 acres, i2 acres of which is good mead
ow land the rest in wood The Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad runs thtOuL II it, The track will
be sold at the very low price of 50 per acre.
COAL LAND.
very fine track, also in Hampshire county
known IS one ofthe Martha Surveys lying ON the
top of the Allegheny mountains, in the coal field
containing between 200 and 500 acres about 50
acres are cleared and in grass, the rest heavily
timbered Abrahams creek, beautiful stream,
abounding with trout and afording sites for
mills, Sc, runs through it, The land is of the
very best grass land in the country, timothy be-
ing indigenous to the sell, in ordinary seasons
growing to the height of the reapers shoulders
The fourteen feet (the largest) ccal vein extends
through the tract, which in short time must
render il immensely valuable For farming pur-
poses alone it is considered fully worth the price
at which il is offered. II lies half a mile from
the Northwestern Turnpike and seven miles from
Reeses Tavern. Price SIC per acre
IN HARDY COUNTY.
The beautiful tract, known by the ZANE Of the
''Kitt,e Lick Survey at the head Of New Gre K
and at the foot of the Alleghanys containing SOL
acres, 40 or so acres cleared and in meadow the
balance well timbcred and very rich, with lime
stone on it; it also has good site for saw mill
1t lies in Hardy county, just over the line of
Hampshire. The new turnpike from New Creek
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
lying 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 will apply to or address
Dec. 10, is34-eow3m CHI. LEE ONES,
Attorney at Law, Washington.