Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-05-20
NeeC Advertisements.
GREAT AND ATTRACTIVE TRUST
VI SALE OF VALUABLE
FIGURING MILLS.
Tsmbered and Mineral Lands, Corn and
Chopping and Saw Mills, Tanmery,
Distillery, Fine Farms, aOith
Superior improvements,

Distillery, Fine Farms, acitA
Superior Improvements,
Orchards, Gc.,
AT WAYNESBORO, AUGUSTA COUNTY,
VIRGINIA.
BY virtue OF deed of trust executed to me
by Hugh l.. Gallaher, dated April 20, 1871 and
&c. page 227, and with the consent and approval
of all concerned, will sell, at public auction in
the town of Waynesboro. in Augusta county, on
FRZDAY Y, JUNE 21st, 1878,
beginning at - O'Clock, M, the following pro-
pert, conveyed BY said Trust Deed; VIZ:
in the village, on South River only 800 feet from
the depot of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
with acres of land attached, large dwelling,
and all necessary out-houses, fine garden, Or
chard meadow, &c. The mill is frame build
ing 81 stories, on stone basement making the
whole Al stories, and is 40x50 feet with store
40x40, and plaster mill-the whole in good or
der. The mill has pair of wheat burs, and one
pair for middlings corn, &c, and pair for
chopping, turned by new Leffers Double Tur-
bne Wheel, AZ inches in diameter, with water
and room enough for another of the same size
capacity now 80 barrels of -four per day, and
has ground 1000 bushels wheat for toll, about
the same amount OF corn and rye, and 800 tons
of plaster per year.. The location of this mill
on the railroad and at the outlet to market for
an extensive and highly productive region, give
it great advantages and custom equal to any ca
railroad could be constructed at q little expense.
va The former owner of this property refused
$l8 600 for it before the war, and since the war
it has been remodeled, and greatly improved by
the Introduction OF new machinery, and an adj
ditional story. plaster mill has also been ad-
died. 30x40 feet-the whole cost of improvem ent
being oyer $l100o The brands turned out by
this mill have been favorites for many years in
the Richmond Markets.
SPRING MILL FARM,
tods inin chDro =,
beautiful Valley of Virginia. containing about
Two Hundred Acres,
nearly all bottom land. The soil is very fertile
The improvements are common frame house.
with five rooms, barn 30x50 feet, with the usual
out buildings, and pretty good orchard. Be-
sides these there is chopping mill, q distillery
and rectifying house that could be put in work
ing order at very little expense, the whole stua-
| ted by q large and constant spring, which turns
the mill. This is most desirable place for a pa
| per mill, the water being pure, abundant enough
| for turning the machinery and supplying the
mill; and the finest straw can be had from the
adjoining farms in abundant quantities, while
| the railroad depot is not more than half mile
| away. About two hundred acres of Mountain
land will be sold with this farm, on which
| there is
This is very valuable farm, and. if desired,
could be advantageously divided.
| WayneshOrO' Saw Mill and Water
| POWER
with three acres OF land and brick house tor tn g
sawyer; 400 yards North from Chesapeake &,
Ohio railroad. The saw mill is in good order
The power is the whole of South River if desired,
| which is constant. This would be fine site for
almost any kind of mandatory, and the
| country abounds in materials.
| SIXTEEN ACRES OF LAND,
within 100 yards Of the Chesapeake & Ohio rail-
road depot at Waynesboro, embracing fields
with orchard, garden, &c; dwelling large brick,
| with rooms 2 halls, with brick Kitchen In
addition to the above there is on the property a
large tannery-32 vats-brick leather-house and
beam shop, frame finishing house, bark-shed and
bark-mill and house.
The terms of sale will be as follows: One
fourth of the purchase money in cash, or, at the
option Of the purchaser, L will take well endors-
ed negotiable notes at sixty days, adding interest
at 8 per cent.
For the remainder of the purchase money the
purchaser will be required to give bonds of equal
| amounts payable in one, two, three and four
years from the day Of SALE and all bearing inter-
est from date at six per cent. payable annually.
@s-Deeds will be made to the purchasers and
trust deeds taken to secure the purchase money.
The title Of the property is believed to De
good but / will convey such title only, as have
under the trust deed.
may20-tds JOHN B. BALDWIN.