Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-02-28
sInGx AID SHEEP RAISING.
U sslRL&s IEE MILES o. EansIaeE ~ Tn
GIsGiNnATi SOUTHERN RAIL ROAD. WITH
FOUR nspOTS LOCATED On IT.

The lands euun Grated below are beng
offered in tracts suitable to all purchasers, at
!ow figures and with deferred payments.
Board lands on the Gin. So. RI, west of
Glen Mary Station. About 5000 acres OF
very desirable land fronting on the Gin So
R.R., is here laid out in 100 acre farms. No
farm is more than three miles from either
Sunbright or Glen Mary Del6ts; tothe latter
are adjacent the Crooke Coal Mines, employing
zoo men and with an output of twelve car
loads per day. Glen Mary has 200 inhabitants,
three stores, telegraph station and post office,
and is stopped at by all trains, four passenger
and four freight daily. Good and ready market,
with best shipping facilities for either agri-
cultural produce or timber and tan bark
Also several fine tracts of land fronting and
lying On the east side of the C.S.RR., and
hall a mile south of Glen Mary.
Board lands on the Gin. So. R.R., west of
Sunbright. These lands lie directly south of
the above and are close to the thriving town
of Sunbright with 200 inhabitants, two hotels,
Masonic Lodge, six stores and pcst-ottice.
They are we'll watered and timbered, and have
excellent market, shipping and especially
numbering facilities.
Board lands on the Gin. So. R.R., half a
mile east Of Robbins Station. Splendid tim
bered lands; rich soil and abundant pasturage.
Underlying this tract is the Robbins Coal
Vein. These lands will be sold for farming,
numbering and mining purposes, in tracts of a
size to suit purchasers.
RUGBY,
Founded in 1881, has many social advan-
tages, viz, Two Good Hotels, Fine Church
and School Building, Public Library with
5000 volumes. Large CommiSSary, Drug Store,
Weekly Newspaper, Post Office with two
mails per day, aud also numerous good houses
and attractive villa residences. Choice build
ing lots are now being offered very reasonable
prices.
Sedgemoor, the station for the above, has
also been laid out in town lots, and the Board
is prepared to offer liberal inducements tc
persons settling there for manufacturing Oh
business purposes. Sedgemocr has two stores
and boarding houses and promises to be a
tlourishing town in the near future. The
C.S.R.R. has just put in there siding, | 500
feet long.
The Boards Rugby lands comprise severa
tracts lying west OF Rugby, in Morgan ant
fentress Counties, as well as all their territor,
between Rugby and Sedgemoor and Robin )!
Depots on the C.S.R.R. These lands arr
trasersed by he Rugby and Sedgemoor Pike
a graded road. seven miles long and pronounced
> the best dirt road in Tennessee, and are, OF
account OF the superior communication, al
accessible to the railroad as the less remot,
lands of the Board. They are situated on tn,
direct and in winter, only line OF traffic from
the G. 5. K. K. to jamestown, Livingston
Cehna and Byrdstown, respectively the count
seats Of fentress, OVerton, Clay and Picket
. Counties.
y CONCLUSION.
p The past season has been eminently success
full as regards all farming and gardening
I" operations, the crops being invariably full all
II of excellent quality. We invite all intereste
persons to correspond with settlers how upo
# the ground.
), Maps and plans can be seen at the Board
y Office on Central Avenue.
Intending Settlers will be most LIBERAL
dealt with, and any information cheerfull
given by
ROBERT WALTON,
RUGBY, MORGAN Co. TENN