Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1855-01-31
VALUABLE FARMS
IN THE STATE or VIRGINIA
FOE SALE

Fon sALA.
FIRMS :-0n.-third cash; the balance on AS
long credit as the purchaser may pgg baby de-
sire, the deferred payments and interest being
properly secured.
| An BERKELEY corSTT,
! tract of land Oh the east side OF Gherry's Run
and on the Potomac River, opposite Old Fort
4 Frederick, Mary land containing about $50 acres
~ acres 81 which is prim.riger botiosa, non Well
/ fenead and lii good state OF cultivation the
other portion is mostly well cove.Ed With tizber
aud - considered excellent farming land. In the
hands OF person who could give il MS personal
attention the timber alone as mere fuel wood for
the use Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad which
runs through IN would more than pay ter the
land ut 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 ofHancock, Maryland and for many
years tenanted by Cromwell Orriek, Esq, con-
tanning upwards of 100 acres, about $50 acres Of
which are Of the very finest quality of bottom
land, always considered the very richest bot
tom land on the Potomac river and, notwith-
standing that it has been tenanted out for more
than ninety years, mostly cultivated year after
year in corn, yet still il is productive ever,
and may well be considered mex le.
About 100 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 well timbcred 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, Of smost
productive farm, well adapted 20 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
Il al HAIL
ley Springs. is failing stream affording
ample sites for extensive mills or for manuiactur-
ing purposes
The Hancock or Alpine Depot fthe Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad lies directly adjoining. and
iong switch Of tie railroad runs distance on
the land atfordng excellent sites for stores or
persons engaged in mercantile pursuits. This
whole tract will be sold for $1,000
HEAVILY sHIP-TIMBERED LAND.
A 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
yey 40 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 sew mill and lies about eight miles from
the town of Bath, berkeley Springs and four
teen miles from Hancock Depot, and has fine
graded road direct from each OF these places run
ming within hal # a mile off Price ST. per acre,
making Sl $50 for the whole tract, which may
well be considered as a bargain, as fortune may
be made out OF tae timber and the land then sold
or the price at which it is offered,
IN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
A track of land on Buck Island Run, called
"LocALeart or the Cat tail Run Track lying
about one mile from the North Branch of the Pc
tomac and three miles below the depot at the
mouth OF Pattersnns creek containing somewhere
n al "A
ow 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 LAND.
very fine track, also in Hampshire county
known as one of the Martin Surveys, lying on the
top of he Allegheny mountains, in the coal field
containing between 700 and 500 acres about SO
acres cleared and in grass the rest heavily
timbered. Ahrabam's creek, beautiful stream
Astounding with trout, and alfording sites for
mills, Sc, runs through IT, The land is Of the
very best grass land in the country, timothy be-
ins indigenous TO the soil in ordinary seasons
growing TO the height Of the reapcrs shoulders
The fourteen feet the larges9 coal vein extends
through the tract, which in short time must
render it Immensely valuable For farming pur-
pbses alone il is considered fully worth the price
st which il is offered 1t lies half II mile from
the Northwestern Turnpike and seven miles from
Reese's Tavern, Price SIC pew acre
IAHsRDY COUNTY.
The beautiful tract known ~ The name OF the
'Ktt}e Lick Survey at the head Of New Greek
and at the foot OF the Alleghanys, containing sol
acres 30 or so acres cleared and in meadow, the
balance well iimbered and very rich, with lime
stone it; it also has a good size for a saw mill
Fit 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 aud the one pre-
ceding it will get conveyance and directions at
Reese's Tavern, on the Northwestern Turnpike
seven miles rom New Greek Depot, both tracts
lying w hin seven or eight miles of said tavern
Price Of this tract ton dollars per acre.
Persons desiring TO purchase any Of the above
property will apply to or address
Dee 10, ls5i-eow3m. Gu LEE JONES,
Attorney at Law, Washington.