The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-12
AUCTION SALES.
By DUNCANSON BROS.
hIIrrPtnNEEDl
AUCTIoNEERs.

office Of the Commissioners OF the District
OF Columbia, Washington, d. U, January
PUBLIC SALE OF THE PROPERTY AND
AND POTOMAC RIVER RAILROAD
COMPANY, IN THE DISTRICT OF
Pursuant to an act of Congress approved
June l, 1873. to provide a permanent form
OF government for the District OF Columbus.
tie Undersigned, on the 21ST DAY Or
JANUARY, A. ID, 1897, at z Q clock III,
at their office NO 464 louisiana avenue,
in Washington city, will offer for sale, at
public auction, to tie highest bidder. the
rights and franchises, road-bed, and iran
ciises, nd the real estate or the Anacostla
and Potomac River Railroad Company, or
SO much thereof as may be necessary 20 pay
certificate ofindebtedness No. 10, Tor 81. 81,
dated December 16, 1898, and issued 70
II. l.. Crawford, for paving space or feet
adjacent TO tracks on Eighth and u streets
southeast, Second and streets. and Canal
and streets southwest, certlrICdJe NO. "a.
for S335. 50, dated November Ia, 1894, and
issued to the Washington Asphalt BLOCK ana
Tile Company for work done adJacenttoVn e
Tracks OF SAID railroad eotnpaay' on soat =
streets southwest, and certificate NO 81,
for 50 1871 ga, dated December 3, lSSo,/
and issued 10 the Washington Aspnait BLOCK
and Tile Company, for work in connection
with the paving OF street southeast, 1rotn
South Capitol to Third street, adjacent 10
the tracks OF said company WIN lntsfesC
or tile issuance of the said oeruficates
against the said company and Jhe cost OF
this advertisement.
The undersigned will first offer 1or sale
all the rights aud franchises OF said com.
pdny prescribed and given by the act or
Congress entitled IAN act TO amend the
act giving the approval ana sanction %, Oh
Congress to the route and termini or the
Anacostia and p otomac River Railroad In
the District OF Columbia, approved Aprii
80, 1872. which gives the company au-
fhnFIV Fftn
ing route, VIZ: From the intersection or It's
tracks at Ninth street with street north.
west, north ON Ninth street 10 u street
northwest over the tracks OF the MeIfopoi-
itau Railway Company: thence west on U
street northwest to Eleventh street north
vest over the tracks OF the Eckingtoh
ana Soldiers Home Railway Company,
thence south on Eleventh street TO Il
street northwest, and east on street 10
Ninth street on the tracks of the Capitol,
North . street aud South Washington Rail
way Company; thence south on Ninth
street to street OH the tracks OF the
Metropolitan Railway Company. The rights
over the trucks OF each or the SAID rall-
road companies are to be offered for sale
separately. And if the bid therefor be
not sufficient to pay said certificates, they
VIII then offer for sale the right of said
company to run its cars over the tracks
OF the Metropolitan Railway Company from
the Intersection OF Ninth and streets
northwest To the intersection or Missouri
avenue and Four and-a-half street south
west; and il the bid therefor he not SUI
fieient to pay said certificates, then they
VIII offer for sale the roadhed aud Insoid
franchises of said company, and II the
bids for all of the above items be insult
ficient to pay said certificates, then they
VIII offer for sale the real estate OF said
company, being lots numbered from
767 to 77S, both Inclusive in Duv-LlI' addi-
ton to Uniontown, in the District Of Co
lumbia.
Terms OF sale-Cash on acceptance OF bid.
CGnveyancing to be at the cost Df the pur-
chaser. JOHN W ROSS,
GEORGE TRUESDELL,
CHAS. F. POWELL
Commissioners of the District IF Column
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