The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-13
GOVERNMENT SALES.
I ARGE SALE OF GOVERNMENT BUILD
! lNGS AND OThER PROPERTY AT POINT

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lNGs AND OThER PROPERTY AT POINT
LOOKOUT, MD.
OFFICE OF HIKE QUARTEBMAsTER,
,, WAsH1NeToN, ID G , December 20, 1866
VIII be sold at Public Aucton TO the highest bid
THURSDAY, january IS, 1866, at 10 O'Clock, A.
M, the following frame buildings and other public
UNITED STATES GENERAL HOSPITAL.
One headquarters Buildmg, 175 by % feet; Is
go by rs eet; Guards Quarters 167 bv "a feet;
Conuaband Quarters, 60 by IA feet, one Kitchen,
dry 81 by 20 ieet, with stationary Engine Locomo
tive Boiler and ali the necessary apparatus for steam
enc Horse "S stable u by 21 eet one WAGON House,
small; one Baggage House. 55 by % tee; one
M Eg rs o by e ss bigs Gns lSS
Building II by II feet 80 feet high with circular
water tank, A6 feet diameter two Coal Houses, ono
saw House, one Forage House, one Dead HOus and
Wash House various dimensions; also,
covered Plank Footwalks connecting the above
WIDE
The above mentioned Headquarters Building is
two stories high, lathed and Dlastered the nf-
teen Hospital " ards, the Mess-house and lew
other structures are also lathed aud plasterod.
PRISON CAMP.
10 Hospital Wards, each llO bv % feet Cook
hOus s. each l48 by % feet; Cook house, 100 by
wnes each 80 by 20 leet; one Headquarters Build
ing Y 10y "A feet, with wings each 40 b. 20 feet;
one :. Storehouse, so by % feet; one Dspensary,
40 by IS ieet; one Chapel 100 by "a feet; one Ex-
press Office, 80 by 16 eet; one Guard House 10 ock)
80 by 10 ieet; one Quart rs, one Office, and one
StoreroOm OF various dimensions; also 91S9 lineal
feet OF Fencing, IL feet high $40 ineal feet OF oaId
Fence, feet high; 200 lineal feet Of covered Plank
Eooiwaks ~ ieeL wide and 9lSS hneal feet of Plank
QUARTERlMl5AsThR,s DEPARTMENT.,
One Quarters, leo by 2S feet; one Quarters 100 bv
IA feet; one Quarters, u by % fees one Quarters
60 by 28 feet three Stables averaging 139 Uy 27 feet
shop, 50 by "a feet; one WheelwriSht shop, 81 by
IA eet; ana four Offices three Quarters, two store
houses, one Oil'house one Saodler's shop, and one
ngS Of Uari ~ INN
MISCELLANEOUS BUILDINGS, AND 0rHEI
One Post Hospital, 20 by 20 feet; one Commissar
| StoIehouse, 200 by 80 1eet; one Commissary Salei
room and Office s4 by q feet; one Office, 81 byI
| Guard House Qog) 81 by 20 feet; two frame Quart
| Houses small sizei one Barrack, at Fort Lincoln
| feet; one Slaughter House 40 by "a feet with She'd
"a bN IL feet and Outbuildngs, by feet; one Sta.
be 80 by ~ feet; and 10 Kitchens, Quarters, etc.
one wnarf of Timber and Lumber 476 feet long
and varying in width from % to 1O2 feet 248 linea
| feet OF Stockade II feet high on the Potomac side
with bock.house 20 by 30 feet four platforms eact
IS by 12 ieet and 100 heal feet OF plank footwalk
| feet wide. 157 nea feet OF Stockade ON bay side
with blocFh 25 by 20 feet and three platforms
| OF various dimensions, and footwalk.
One Hose Carriage; % Fire Ladders; "a Axes; 1l6
Fire Buckets and six lengths of Hose, each ol feet
Three Cooking Ranges; one Perpetual Oven. a
quantity Of old Lumber; and number of Pumps.
Point Lookout situated at the junction Of the Po-
tomac nver with Chesapeake bay was, before the
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Tor the purpose now, having excellent facilities tor
salt alter bathing, and abundance of fish and game.
The buildings above enumerated under the head of
Omitted States General Hospital" are loca.ed di-
rectly on the Point, the principal structures being
arranged in circle, radiatng from a common
centre, and connected by covered footwaks, and
could with moderate expense be fitted up properly
tor the accommodation of visitors, steam laun-
dry, ice-hOuse coal house, water-tanks, and many
other necessary structures for the purpose arfeady
Tor immediate use. An excellent opportunity Is
so afforded to land. owners IN the vicinity and else
where, to secure valuable fencing and building
material.
A steamer will leave the Government wharves
south side ofthe BASIN, Fardy's shipyard Bal
timore, Md, at 10 O'Clock, on the morning of We'd
nesday, January H. 1866, for the transportation of
bidders to Point LooR out and will be until
the close OF the sale to return he passengers to Bal
tlmore. Meals will be furnished the boat at the
usual steamboat rates.
The Buildings will be sold singly, and other proc
perty In lots to suit purchasers.
The military guard will remain charge of the
Buildings, etc, Tor fir cen days after the SALE If
desired, and purchasers will be allowed twenty days
in which TO remove their property.
TeIms--Cash, in Govern ment funds.
M. L LUDINGTON,
Colonel and Chief Quartermaster,
lot Department of Washington.