Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-10
LIABILITIES WARRANTED AND DEFENDED.
The Board of Aid Estate, centrally situated
90, tb,. al ~ r.
IT SKIRTS TEX MILES or FROaTAeE on mt
CiaCIiaATl SOUTHERN RAIL ROAD. WITH
FOUR DE71TS LOCATED on 1T.

The lands enun era I'd below are being
offered III tracts suitable to all purchasers, at
lou figures and with deferred payments.
Board lands Oh the Gin. So. r. r., west of
Glen Mary Station. About 1900 acres OF
very desirable land fronting OH the Gin SO.
X r., is here laid out in 100 acre farms. No
farm is more than three miles from either
Sunbright or Glen Mary Del OTIS; to the latter
are adjacent the Crooke Coal Mines, employing
200 men and with an out put of twelve car
loads per day. Glen Mary has 200 inhabitants,
three stores, telegraph station and post oftice,
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 aud tan bark.
Also several fine tracts of land fronting and
lying on the east side OF the C.S.R.R., and
half mile south of Glen Mary.
Board lands on the Gin. &c. 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-otfice.
They are well watered and timbered, and have
excellent market, shipping and especially
numbering facilities.
Board lands Oh the Gin. So. RR., 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 he sold for farming
numbering and mining purposes, III tracts Of
size to suit purchasers.
Founded in 1884, has many social adyau
tages, viz, Two Good Hotels, Fine Church
and School Building, Public Library with
G,000 volumes. Large Commissary, Drug Store,
Weekly Newspaper, Post Office with two
mails per day, and also numerous good houses
and attractive villa residences. Choice build
ing lots are now being offered at very reasonable
prices.
| Sedgemoor, the station for the above, has
also been land out In town lots, and the Board
is prepared to offer liberal inducements to
persons settling there for manufacturing or
business purposes. Sedgemoor has two stores
and boarding houses, and promises to be a
flourshing town in the near future. The
C.S.R.R. has just put in there a siding $500
feet long.
The Boards Rugby lands comprise several
tracts lying west of Rugby, in Morgan and
Fentress Counties, as well as all their territory
| oCt"VCu hubDy anu SCuScuIOOT anu hODUlu y
Del OTIS on the C.S.R.R. These lands are
traversed by the Rugby and Sedgemoor Pike
graded road. seven miles long and pronounced
the best dirt road in Tennessee and are, on
account Of the superior communication, as
accessible to the railroad as the less remote
lands of the Board. They are situated on the
direct and, in winter, only line of traffic from
the G. 5. r. R. to jamestown, Livingston,
Cehna and Byrdstown, respectively the county
seats of FentresS, Overton, Clay and Pickett
Counties.
CONCLUSION.
The past season has been eminently success
full as regards all farming and gardening
operations, the crops being invariably full and
OF excellent quality. We invite all interested
persons to correspond with settlers now upon
the ground.
Maps and plans can be seen at the Boards
Office on Central Avenue.
Intending Settlers will be most literally
dealt with, and any information cheerfully
given by
ROBERT WALTON,
RUGBY, MORGAN CO., TENN.