The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-27
Saturday, the 27th day of
March, 1869,

oil the premises, five miles east Of the city of
Wheeling on the Cumberland road, at a point
kuOv n ~ Elm Grove, commencing at the hour
ut ten o'clock A. NJ, a tract Ot ~ acres Oi lana,
more or less, it being the same property form
eTlv owned by Lydia :. Cruger, deceased, di.
vidrd into lots and farms To suit purchasers,
consisting in all of thirteen lots varying Ill sue
from one to fifteen acres, ana Two ialus con-
tanning sixty-SiX aud eighty acres respectively.
These lots all front upon the Cumberland road;
those usOu the north side extending TO the brow
of the bill whilst those upon the soUth embrace
all the property and buildings intervening be-
tween said Cumberland road and wheeling
creek In connection with lot No. :, which
contains 10 6-lU acres of surface land, will DO
sold the coal privilege of 100 acres underlying
the hill lands; a comfortable frame tenement Is
built uEOn this lot. On lot No !, which I. Onts
40 feet ON the Cumberland road and extends 50
feet in depth, is located the old aud new Elm
Grove stores, the former now used as a ware
house to the latter and at present occupied by ).
HOPKINS together with stable, carriage house,
&c. On lot No :, which contains 6l0 OF an
acre ia n fine frame dwelling house, now used
In connection with the store, with suitable out
buildings and all the modern improvements.
On lot No. Q is the stone gTist mill dwelling
house and blICksmiths shop, with strip OF
twenty. i've feet in width, embracing the mill
race; from the dam to the Cumberland road, TO.
Sether with $40 of an acre on the point OF the NIL
adjacent to the head of the raGe, making in all
. 2lO acres: With exclusive title to the water
pnwer. Upon lot No. 10, which is $40 acrIs
In size, Is the stone hotel, now occupied by Mrs.
French with all the improvements, cOmpre-
bending stables, ice houses, &c, The remaining
lots, numbered l. >, 3 (, e. II, - and l3, re-
spectvely are without improvements, but
iavorably located for residences and excelling
any other body of land in Ohio county for gar.
dening purposes. The hill property connected
with the estate is laid of into two farms, the
Erst of which contains 81 acres, occupied by
James Smith bounded on the east and north by
Atkinson's ridge road, easy of access, we'll tim.
bered productive and two-thrds arabic land,
together with two substantial frame tenement
houses.
The second farm fronts on Little Wheeling
creek not moro than 20 yards from the Cumber'
land road, extending back TO the ridge road,
thereby giving two desirable outlets, one by the
National turnpike and the other by the County
road containing ~ acres. The hill portion OF
this property abOunds in timber Of the beat
oualitv. whilst the low lands is well adapted ia
iarmiir purposes. Parties desiring more par
ticular description OF the above property are
referred to two plats OF survey of the same, one
AT the Recorders office of Ohio county and the
other al the residence of !. F. Smith on the
PREMISES or TO one of the undersigned Commits
siOners-
Possession given on LIST of April.
TERNs OF SAIE;-One- third of the purchase
neney in cash. aud the remainder in TWO equa
instruments payable. the one At one year, anC
the other at two years after the day of sale; thu
title to the said land aud premises being retain
ed as the security for the payment OF said TIVE
''' ~ J.HGOoD,
R. b WOODS,
HANNIBAL FORBES,
tabls dSytd Commissioners