Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-20
AUCTION SALES.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Distr;ct of South Carolina

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District Of South Carolina.
Louis H. Comstock, Trustee, Complain
ant, against Carolina Sulphuric Acid
Manufacturing company, Defendant.
PY virtue of decree of the Circuit
ID Court of the United States for the
District of South Carolina, passed on the
9Th day of January, 1897, in the above en-
titled cause, and of q decree thereafter
duly entered in the Circuit Court of the
United States for the Western District Of
between the same parties, I, JOHN F.
JONES, special master thereby designa-
ted, will, on the days and at the places
hereinafter set out, sell AT PUBLIC
AUCTION to the highest bidder, all Of
the property belonging to the defendant
corporation, whether the same be situated
in the state of North Carolina or in South
Carolina; that is to say, to-wit: All
that certain tract of land known as the
Mooney tract and Sulphur Nine" situ-
ated in CASTOR county, North Carolina,
containing 1S9 acres, more or less, togeth-
er with dwelling house, store, barns and
other buildings thereon, all machinery,
tools, fittings and supplies of each and
every description incident to, or thereto
pertaining, and all mineral rights, rights
of way and other privileges belonging
or incident to the same. Also that certain
thirty acres tract, be it more or less, situ-
ated in York county, South Carolina, ad-
jacent to the town Of Blacksburg, and
upon which is located the REDUCTION
WORKS and ACID PLANT Of the de-
one and one-half acres, more or less, re-
served to the R.. & D. r. R. company as
a pump station, and excepting the FIVE
acres tract sold to the Durham Fertilizer
company, on which it has erected its fac
tory.) Also, that certain seven acre tract,
situated in the town of Blacksburg, York
county, South Carolina, bought Of N. w.
Hardin. Also, another lot of land in
same town and county, containing about
nine and three-quarter acres, bought Of
E. Blackwell. Also, one other lot con-
ters, adjoining the lot above described.
Also, the defendant company's plant,
reduction works, acid chambers, chemists
quarters and assaying plant, including all
the machinery. furnaces, rolls, crushers,
elevators, shafting, pulleys, belts, amalga-
majors, collecting pans, settling pans,
engines, boilers, pipes and piping, tanks,
pumps, steam exhaust and other connec-
tions, scales. implements, tools, derricks,
and all personal property owned by the
defendant company wheresoever the same
machinery, hoists, engines, boilers, wire
rope, pumping machinery now owned or
in any way connected with the property
Of the defendant company herein de-
scribed, together with all and singular
the alleys, roads, ways, watefcourses,
easements, or any other right or privilege
incident to, or in any way appertaining to
the property hereinbefore described.
Also, all leases, options, contracts or pat
ent rights, that the defendant company
may own or possess.
All the land and personal property in
South Carolina, shall he sold at YORK
VILE, South Carolina, at the COUNTY
COURT HOUSE, on the 23RD DAY OF
FEBRUARY, 1897, at eleven o'clock in
the forenoon and the land in North Caro-
lima, at DALLAS COURT HOUSE. Gas
ton county, North Carolina, on the 25TH
DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1897, at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon.
The terms Of the above mentioned sales
in North and South Carolina, are as fol-
lows to- witt Five thousand dollars (S5, ,000
to be deposited with the special master
in cash, or by certified check, by any
one desiring to bid and before any bid be
received, out Of which is to be paid the
costs, fees, and expenses incidental to
these proceedings, together with any sum
or sums due by the receiver and allowed
by the court, together with any claims
that may be established or adjudged to be
q preferred claim, or in any manner hav-
ing priority of or to be in displacement
of the mortgages of the defendant COM
pany and should this amount not be suf-
expenses, together with any sum or sums
that may be legally due and owing to the
receiver and allowed by the court, and
any claims that may be established and
adjudged to be preferred claims or in
any manner having priority of, or to be
in displacement OF, the mortgages Of the
defendant company, then such deficit is
to be paid out of any sum that may be
bid; and the purchaser or purchasers
shall pay in addition to the five thousand
dollars ($5,OOW to be deposited as herein
before provided for, one half Of the
bid by them, either in cash or in
pany, secured by its said mortgages, and
that the balance be on credit Of twelve
with interest from date, to be
secured by bond of the purchaser with
mortgage of the premises. The purchas-
er or purchasers to have the privilege Of
paying all cash, or in the bonds or debts
of the defendant which are secured by the
mortgages of the defendant. But should
the five thousand dollars (S5,000) ordered
to be deposited not be Sufnclent 10 pay
the costs, fees and expenses incident to
these proceedings, together with any sum
legally due by the receiver and allowed
by the court, and any claim that may be
established or adjudged to be a preferred
claim, or in any manner having priority.
of, or in displacement of, the mortgages OF
the defendant, then such deficit is to be
paid out of any sum bid Tor the property
herinbefore described.
This sale is made subject to confirma-
ton by the court upon the coming IN
of the report herein.
For further particulars and a full de-
of the property, reference Is
hereby made to said decree now on file
with the clerks of the several courts here
inbefore referred to. JNO. F. JONES,
Special Master.
DUNCAN & SANDERS,
Compartments Solicitors.
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