The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-02
MoRTaAeEES SALE.
colliery In Elk County, Penn'a,
''BENZINGBR COAL AND IRON COM
PANY PROPERTY"

BY virtue of decree of the Court of
Common Pleas, of Elk County, made the
18th day of April, A. d. 1874, directing a
| sale to be made, in the foreclosure of GER
tain mortgage, recorded in the Recorders s
Office of Elk County, in Mortgage Book
"B," page 152 etc., the 18th day of August
A. d. 1867, the undersigned Trustees and
Mortgages, under said mortgage, (the
same having been forclosed by Bill in
| Equity, will expose for sale at Public
Auction, at the Exchange in the City of
Philadelphia, on TUESDAY, THE It'll
| DAY OF JULY A ID. 1874, at II o'clock,
| NJ. the following described property to
| wit: being all the estate and franchises,
belonging TO and connected with the said
| The "BENZINGER COAL AND IRON
COMPANY"
First-All the Railroad connecting the
mines of said Company with the Philadel
| phis and Erie Rail Road, and built by the
| said Company, together with all and singu
lar, the superstructure, bridges, switches,
turnouts, sidetracks, depols, and buildings.
pockets, cars, and other stock, in aud
about, the operation and mining of said
Rail Road.
Second-All the following described
tracts, pieces or parcels Of land, situate,
lying and being in the township of Ben.
Finger, County of Elk, and State of Penn
sylvania, aud adjoining the Borough o. st.
Mary's. The said lots are all numbered,
according to Benzinger and Eschbacb's plot
or plan of the settlement of st. Mary's,
duly recorded in the Recorders Office of
Elk County, and also described by metes,
bounds and numbers, in the said mortgage,
and the Bill of Equity foreclosing the same.
1st. Lot No. six (6) Esch bach Road, con-
tanning fifty (50) acres more or less.
3D. Lot, No. thiIteen (l3) St. Michaels
Road, containing twenty-five (25) acres.
Sd. Lot, No. three (3) Eschbach Road,
western part, containing twelve and one
half (121) acres and Lot No. two (2) con-
tanning fifty f50) acres.
4th. Lot, No. one, ri Eschbach Road,
containing fifty 1901 acres.
9th. The back or rear part of Lot No.
four raj on Brussels Load, containing
twenty [ 20l acres.
Gth. Lot No. seven III on Eschbach
Road, containing fifty [5O] acres.
7th. Lot designated "A on Rosely Road,
containing nineteen (l0) acres.
Sth. Lot, designated [B,1 on Brussels
Road, containing seventy five [75] acres.
9th. The southern ends or halls of lots
Nos. six [6] and eight [Sl on Brussels
Road, containing fifty 1901 acres.
10th. Lot, No. f'ten [lO] on Brussels
Road, containing fifty 1901 acres.
llth. Another part Of Lot No. three [3]
on Eschbach Road, containing twelve and
one. half [122l acres.
18th. The western part of Lot No. eight
(8) on Eschbach Road, containing twenty
five [25] acres. Together, containing four
hundred and eighty nine (4S9) acres, more
or less; less two RI acres therefrom, which
has been taken for the purpose of saw
mill. Upon the said premises are erected
eleven (ID houses, suitable for miners
houses, and other outbuildings.
ALSO Ali the coal, sandstone, iron and
other ores, clay and all other minerals or
mineral ores, and all oils or oil substances
in, and upon or under the following de-
scrbed tracts. pieces or parcels of land
situate in Benz niger Township, Elk County
and State Of Pennsylvania, and described
as follows:
lst. Thiry-four [34 acres, in Lot No.
fifteen T161 St. Michaels Road.
2nd. Twenty. five rs acres, in Lot No.
fourteen IA st. Michaeis Road.
3rd. Twenty-Five 20 acres, in Lot No.
- St. Mchaels Road.
4lh. Thiriy-one 81 acres, being in
Lot No twelve H. st. Michaels Road.
9th. Seventy 10 acres, being Lot,
No five % and eastern half OF Lot No.
four a Eschbach Road.
eth. Twenty. five ID acres, west half of
Lot No. four a Eschbach Road.
7th. Twenty-Five 10 acres, east half
Lot No. eight 81 Eschbach Road.
S'h. Twenty five 20 acres west half,
Lot No. nine % Eschl ach Road.
9th. Twenty-Five 25- acres, in Lot No.
nine 9 St. Mchaels Road.
10Th. Twelve and one half -12I- acres,
west half Lot No. eight s St. Micbaels
Road.
l:th. twenty-five % acres, in Lot No.
ten 10 st. Mlchaels Road.
18th. Twenty-fv 10 acres, in Lot No.
seven = ST. Michaels Road.
18th. Seventy five .-15-- acres, part of
warrant No. four thousand one hundred and
ninety seven -4l97- in Jay Township, Elk
County, Pennsylvania.
The land containing said mineral rights,
&c. being four hundred and twenty. seven
-427- acres, more or less.
Together with the right to enter upon
said premises and explore, dig, and eX-
cayate. for said substances, and to remove
the same by oil proper and convenient
places and ways over said premises and
to make Roads and to lay Rail Roads for
the convenient transportation of said com.
modities, and to use SO much Of said
premises as may be convenient for the ac-
comnOdalion OF the necessary works for
the prosecution of the business of mining.
The land above described, was all pur.
chased as Bituminous Coal Lands, and the
property has been worked and coal shipped
therefrom for some years.
IL Ia
and tUurishiug town in Elk County.
TERMS CASH. The tide is indisputable.
Any further in ormaton will be given
by addressing the subscribers.
JOHN W. MCKlM,
LEVI II. STRAW,
TruSteps Nc