The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-03
GOVERNMENT SALES.


4 Ah1E SALE VI UUVERNM NMENr BUILD
- lNGS AND OTHER PROPERTY A3 POINT
LOOKOUT, MD.
H1ADQUARrERs DEPARTMENT WAsBINeroN,
OFFICE OF H1EF QUARTmMAsrER,
WASHINGTON, ID g. December 90 1855 J
VIII be sod at Public Auction TO the highest bid
der at POINT LOOKOUT Nd Commencing
THURSDAY, January 49, 1866, at 10 O'CLOCK A.
M, tho following frame buildings and other public
UNIFIED STATES GENERAL HOSPITAL.
One headquarters Building, 175 by 25 feet; I5
2tO BY rs feet; cDe Guards Quarters 167 by ~ feet;
one Cenuaband Quarters. GO by IA foet one Kitchen,
co by % feet; one Chapel ~ ~ % feet; one Laun-
dry 81 by 20 ieet, with stationary Engine, Locomo-
tive Boiler and oil the necessary apparatus tor steam
ona S n4y 0 and a5y ng g one on ., Cow stable 81 BY ct
,,mnlli one BsggaGe House, 90 by rs Ice one
Marenonse, % by, % feet; one Ice Il use,
Building, II by II feet, 80 feet high with cr.ular
wafer tank, 40 feet diameter; two Coal Houses, one
Saw House, one Forage House, one Dead Hous and
one Wash House, or various d,mensions; also
covered Plank Footwalks connecting the above
buildings; aggregate length 1850 teet, aud ieet
ihe aforementioned Headquarters Building is
two stories high lathed and piastered, ana tho lf-
teen Hospital ards, the Mess-house, and n ieW
other structures are also lathed aud pastered.
PRISON CAMP.
III AOspual Wards, each lA0 by 25 feet; Cook.
hous $, each lab by p ieet; Cook house 100 by
20 feet; one Cook-house 40 by 25 ieet with 70
wings. each 30 by 20 feet; one Headqunriers Build
ing 70 by "a ieet with two wings each 40 b 20 ioet
one - y StOTehOuse, so by % feet; one Dispensarv
4u DY l(els one chapel, lOO bY "a feet. Ike
press Office, 80 by l6 lee; one Guard House 10 ock)
90 by 10 ieet; one Quart one Office and one
StoreToom, OF various dimenslons also 91sS lineaI
feet OF tencng, II feet high; $40 neal teet OF Board
Fence, eet high; 200 lineal teet of covered Plank
Fooiwaks, - oe wide; and 9lSS hnea feet of PLANK
Footvalk eet wide, with rail.
QUARTERMASTLR'S DEPARTMENT.,
one quarters, by ~ teet; one Quarters, 100 by
Ia feet one Quarters 12 by % feel one Quarters,
CD by 28 foot three Stables averaging 139 by 27 feet
each one StCrehOuse, "a by q feet; one Smith
Shop, 80 by "a feet; one Wheelwrieht shop, 81 by
houses, one 0lhouse; one Saddler's shop, and one
Mess House, OF various dimensions.
| MISCELLANEOUS BUILDINGS, AND OTHER
PROPERTY.
One Post Hospital; 20 by 25 feet; one Commissary
room and Office Sd nv S7 feet ore 0fSce b 1aeH n Is
! teet one Guard Heuse tlOgl 80 by so teet one
| Guard House (log) 3J by 20 ieet two frame Guard
Houses small size; one Barrack, at Fort Lincoln,
| 60 by 20 feet; one Ordnance Storehouse "a b. IL
leet one Slaughter House 40 by "a feet, with She'd
"a bi 13 feet and Outbuildings, by feet; one sta
be, 80 by 70 feet; and 10 Kitchens, Quarters etc,
| of various dimensions.
| One wnarf OF Timber and Lumber 476 feet long
and vary ing width from % to 100 feet 248 linea
feet Of Stockade II ieet high the Potomac SIDE,
with block house 20 by 80 feet four atforms, each
| c feet wide 157 nea feet OF Stockade on bay side
with tlocf house 70 by 20 feet and three platforms
OF various dimensions and tootwalk.
One Hose Carriage; % Fire Ladders; "a Axes; 116
Fue Buckets; and six lengths OF Hose, each Of feet
| long.
Three Cooking Ranges one Perpetual Oven a.
| quantity of oid Lumber; and a number OF Pumps
Point Lookout, situated at the junction of the Po-
tomac river with Chesapeake BAY was, before the
war, avorIte watering place, and is we'll adapted
Tor the purpose now having exec lent facilities tor
salt ater Lathing, ana abundance OF fish and game
The buildings above enumerated under the head of
Omitted States General Hospital" are located di-
Iectly on the Point, the principal structures beng
arranged in a circle, radiat,ng from a common
| centre and connected by covered footwalks, and
could with moderate expense be fitted up properly
Tor the accommodation of visitors, q steam iaun-
dry, ice-house, coal house watertanks and many
other necessary structures for the purpose are ready
Ior immediate use An excellent opportunity Is
afforded to land owners the vicinity and else.
where TO secure valuable encng and building
material.
A steamer will leave the Government wharves,
sOuth side OF the BASIN, Fardys shpyard, Bal
timore, Md, at 10 Ock, on the morning of We'd
nesday, January II, 1866 for the trans portation
bidders 10 Point Loos out; and will retained until
the close of the sale to return The passenger Bal
tlmore. Meals will be furnished the boat at the
usual steamboat rates N
The Buildings will be sold singly, and other pro-
perry in lots 10 suit purchasers.
The military guard will remain IN charge of the
Buildings, etc, Tor fheen days after the SALE II
desired, and purchasers will be allowed twenty days
in which TO remove their property. =
TeIms-Cash, III Government funds.
| Nj. l. LUDINGTON,
| Colonel and Chief Quartermaster,
11l5t Department of Washington.