Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1855-02-28
VALUABLE FARMS
IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA
FOX SALE.

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Ierms:--One-third cash; the balance on as
long credit as the purchaser may probably de-.
sire me deferred payments and interest being
properly secured
IN BERKELEY COUNTY,
tract or land on the east side Of cherry's run
ana On tie Potomac River. opposite old Fort
frederiek Maryland containing about $40 acres
~ acres of which is prime river bottom now well
fenced ami Ia a 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 offhe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (which
runs through ~ would more than pay for the
land at the price at which il Is offered $40 per
acre.
IN MORO COUNTY,
The valuable farm called Dpnmore, lying on the
Warm Spring Run and the Potomac river oppo.
site the town Cffiancock, Maryland and for many
years tenanted BY Cromwell Orrick, ESQ., con-
tanning upwards OF 100 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 tenanted out for more
than ninety years, mostly cultivated year after
year in corn, yet still it is as productive as ever
ana may well he considered as inexhaustibles---
About 100 acres Of the upland have lately been
cleared and we'll fenced and now sowed in wheat
OF which il 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
Tor he land. And when cleared the purchaser
would be ia possession, clear OF all cost ola most
productive iarm, well adapted 10 grazing blue
grass being indigenous 70 the soil voluntarily
/ springing mp wherever II Is Above to grow.
The Warn Spring Run which bounds this land
formed from heso
ley Springs. Is never failing stream. affording
ample sites for extensive mills or for manufaetur-
ing purposes.
The Hancock or Apline Depot Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad lies directly adjoining and
.ong switch of the railroad runs some distance on
the land, aHording excellent sites for stores or
persons engaged in mercantile pursuits This
whole trac, will be sold for $4,000
HEAVILY sHIP.TiMBER ED LAND.
splendid tract of land in the same county, on
the North Fork OF sleepy Greek, known by the
name Of Trips bottom containing by recent sur-
vey 40 acres, large portion OF which is very
rich bottom, covered with the largest and finest
white oak timer believed to exist "a the shoIe
State of Virginia, and considered very valuable
q, chip timber This land contains veiy good
site tor saw mill and lies about eight mills from
the town OF Bath, berkeley Springs and four
teen miles from Hancock Depot and has fine
graded road direct from each OF these plaeesrun.
ming within hall mile oft Price SIS per acre.
making ST. $50 for the whole tract which may
well be considered as a bargain, as fortune may
be made out OF the timber aud the land then sold
or the price at which II il nov offered.
IN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
track of land on Buck Island Run, called
"LockheartsN or the "Gat-tail Run Track 2 lying
about one mile from the North Branch of the Po-
tomac and three miles below che depot at the
mouth Of Patterson's creek cont lining somewhere
about 500 acres, 2 acres Of which is good mead,
ow land the rest in woed The baltimore and
ohio Railroad runs throuk h it, The track will
be sold at the very low price Of SO per acre.
COAL LAND.
A very Gne 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 100 and $40 acres about 50
acres are cleared and in grass, the rest heavily
timbered. Ahrabam's creek, beautiful stream
Astounding with trout, and afordng 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, ia ordinary seasons
growing to the height Of the reapers shoulders
The fourteen feet (tbe largest coal vein exteads
through the tract, which in short time must
render it Immensely valuable, For farming pur-
poses alone it is considered fully worth the price
at which il is offered II lies ha,f 3 mile from
the Northwestern Turnpike and seven niles from
Reese's Tavern. Price sl6 per acre.
INiaRDY COUNTY,
The beautiful tract known by the name Of the
"Kitt,e Lick Survey at the head OF New Creek
and at the foot of the Aheghanys, containing sol
acres, 40 or SO acres cleared and in meadow the
balance well timbered and very rich with lime
stone il it also has good site for a saw mill
IL lies ia Hardy county, just oTeT the line of
Hampshire. The new Turnpike from New Creek
Depot 10 Petersburg passes through IT, Persons
DESTROYS of viewing this trsc and the one pre-
ceding it will get conveyance and direction. 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 ,ract ten dollars per acre
Persons desiring to purchase any Of tho above
property will apply to OF address
Dec. 49, lS54--eow3m. Gil. LEE JONES,
Attorney at Law, Washington