Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-11-05
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Land Sales.

COMMISSIONERS SALE OF VAL
OuabIe Iron and Timber Lands in
ALLEGHANY COUNTY. VA, AT LONG,
DALE and Clifton Forge, ON the Chesapeake, q
Ohio Acknowledgements to decree OF Allie
ghany Circuit Court, pronounced in the cause
Of Montague ct ais, VS. VIM. L. Alexander,
we will, as Commissioners. proceed to sell at
public auction to the highest bidder,
or the 10Th day Of November, 1872,
at Clifton Forge, at II o'clock of that day, the
Seven Tracts of Land,
belonging to William L. Alexander. comprising
I6,Os6 Acres,
situated Immediately at and around Longdale
Depot and on both eide of Jackson's River at
Clifton Forge.
No /. The Clifton, Forge Tract 2,O73 acres
on West side of Jackson's River, containing
Clifton Forge and Furnace. There are .promis-
ing appearances of abundant 1ron-ore through.
out this tract. 1t has u frontage of a mile and
a-half on Jsckson's liver, and a fine water
power, said to be unsur passed in the State. 1t
extends to within two undred yards OF clifton
Forge Depot.
No. 2. 675 Acres, aero IS Jackson's River OPP
poslte No l.; promising. indications OF Iron:
No. 3. 1872 acres, be tween COwpasture River
and Wilson's Creek. This is heavily timbered.
The @. s. o. Railroad runs through it, and it
surrounds Longdale ID epot.
No. A. Wilson's Eill Tract: 1929 acres, on
No. 2, covered with excellent timber. Upon ii
is a large Ore ban TX formerly extensively
worked for the CiftN Forge; and Iron proba-
bly, exists throughout the entire tract. Within
a few hundred yards o its lines an ore bank has
recently been opened KY Mr.. Peters for Buffalo
Furnace; some 10 tons are daily taken from il
and the ore is reported to have given satlsfac,
ton. 1t adjoins No. and is only separated
from No. by the river.
No. 5. Thurman Tract: 2514 acres, at juno
ton of Jackson's River and Cowpasture River.
No. 6,825 Acres, and No. 7 adjoining Ala
acres on the Warm Spring Mountain, adjoining
the famous Dolly Ann Fal mace. This, doubt
less, contains the same ores in abundance which
have made that property so valuable:
Portions of these lands have been largely and
profitably worked for nasLy years as Iron prop
erty. They are travers ed by the u q y. Rali-
rOal and also run along Jackson's River with
the projected line of the ia mes RIVER and IA
nawha Canal, and with the new line of the q.
q o. Railroad to be built Gown Jackson,s River
from Clifton Forge. They are heavily tlmbered
and are believed to abound in extensive deposits
of excellent Hematite Ore; being within the
limits of the best part of tha.t formation of vir-
ginla. (See Ridgway's repor to y. q ". hali-
road), and the report of Col. Alien, flied with
the papers of this suit
They contain the nearest KIN own reliable de-
posts of iron ore to the great kanaWha Coal
fields not being more than one hundred miles
distant, and will, during til present WINTER De
connected Herewith by tn 9 completion OF the
Q. & o. Railroad; thus OFF, ing unusual facili-
ties for the manufacture of on not only by the
proximity of this inexhausti, Die supply of cheap
fuel, but because of the CHI cap transportation
which will necessarily be atfol ded by the secip-
rocity of the freight between tire Coal and iron
Regions.
TERMS CT SALE.-Cash in hsn0 sufficient to
defray the expenses OF suit and sale; and to
the residue, in equal instruments at one, two,
three, four and five years, with inere It from the
day of sale taking from the pucchas er bonds
with approved personal security, and retaining
the title as ultimate security.
Fl FL. ROBERTSON,
JOHN LETCHER,
Commissioners.
October % 4t