The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-13

,,, G a. McHGGH.
l4 til Trustees.
COMMISSIONERS SALE.-BY vIR-
tue OF decree entered in the musings
court of the city of Roanoke on the 9th
day OF January, 1897, in the chancery
cause therein pending of s. d. Ferguson
against the Ninton Land improvement
Company and others. | will on MON
DAY, THE 18TH DAY OF FEBRU-
AIRY. 1897, in front of the courthouse of
the city of Roanoke at IL O'Clock M, offer
for sale at public auction the following
property:
All that certain farm situated in the.
county of Roanoke adjacent to the town
of Vinton, aud described as follows:
Beginning at a stake on the west side
OF n county road 20 feet east of cabin,
thence south - degrees and 40 Minutes
west two hundred and sixty-ninc and
thirty three hundredths feet 10 stake
in Il corner Of an old rock fence, thence
south 63 degrees and - minutes east
twenty six hundred and forty and two
hundredths feet 10 Il stake in n fence cor
ner fifteen feet east of Il large red oak
tree, thence south two degrees and -
minutes east nine hundred and eleven and
ninety.t two hundrcdths feet to two
stones, thence north eighty degrees and
twenty seven minutes east four hundred
and seventy three and siNty-four hun
drcdths feet to II stake in fence corner
thence south eleven minutes east south of
degree east, six hundred and eighty.
six and tiftyfour hundredths feet to il
stake in fence corner, thence south 70
degrees So minutes east 50 feet 70 II
stake in fence corner. thence north ~
degrees ~ minutes east 602.94 feet to a
stake III Il fence corner, thence south -
degrees minutes east .0l. So feet to Il
stake in fence corner near white oak
thence south degrees 20 minutes west
1888 feet to II stake near II small nine
near the Bedford road thence south G3
degrees 40 minutes west DBL feet west
To II large stone on the west side of Wolf
creek, thence north A degrees % minutes
west l003.4 feet to u stake in fence cor
ner, thence north II degrees is minutes
east l92.9S feet to Il stake in Bedford
roau the following five courses North l6
degrees 20 minutes west 49,. 80 feet, north
ST degrees A minutes west l09j.9 feet,
north 50 degrees IS minutes west G999 d.
feet, south So degrees 80 minutes west
699. rs feet. south ,6 degrees II minutes,
west l23.2 feet, thence leaving the road
south degrees II minutes east 1866
| feet to II white oak, thence south 81 de
grees 30 minutes west 211.11 feet to "a
black oak, thence north 81 degrees rs
| minutes west Sj6.61 feet to II chestnut
OAK, thence north 70 degrees 03 minutes
| east 6S6.32 feet to Il stake near two white
oaks, thence north 62 degrees 10 minutes
| west ll2i.l feet to IL stake on west side
of Il large white oak, thence north Is de-
| grees III minutes east SjS.22 feet to Il most
at end of rock fence. thence south 60 de-
| grces SuS east S1.Il feet to IL pest, thence
north 33 degrees minute east 17T.33
feet TO post, thence north "a degrees ~
| miunrps aus 81 pS 10 = Il
of rock fence, thence north 56 degrees %
minutes east 1920 feet TO stake on
| north side of II county road, thence north
| j degrees minutes west SOB feet to IL
stake III an old white oak stump, thence
north 20 degrees ~ minutes east 54l
feet TO II stone in branch thence north So
degrees 10 minutes east ass. 80 ieet to n
stake in n branch, thence south 60 dc.
grees 30 minutes east 26299 feet to !,
chestnut oak, thence south n degrees 81
| minutes east 361 feet to beginning con.
tanning two hundred and ninety-one and
twenty-eight one. hundredths (o9l 2S)
acres, as shown by recent survey made by
| Wingate n tlanckel, engineers, Roanoke
| Va, ami being the same property for
merry owned by w. y. Preston, deceased,
and which descended to c. |. and NJ. l..
Preston, only surviving hcrs.at law, AMI
! equal shares, the whole of the undivided
interest of the former &C.. /. Preston) hay
ing been conveyed TO NJ. II. Preston hv
deed dated the first day OF October 1873
and recorded in decd book ~, ~ page ls5.
III the clerks Office OF Roanoke county
! court.
! Al of the above described real estate j.
TO he sold except the following described.
| which embraces the resdei &c, live acres
more or less, and which was reserved at
the time of the conveyance from NJ r
| Pre- ston and wife 10 the Ninton Land ana
Improvement Company and described us
| follows: beginning ut Il point, the same
being the northeast corner of Spring and
Tenth streets, themes with the east side
of Tenth street north II degrees > min
utes west $3.50 feet 10 n point, thence.
still with Tenth street north ) degrees 10
minutes east 2p2 feet to the southeast
corner Of Washington avenue and Tenth
| street, thence with Washington avenue
south Is degrees 03 minutes, east 81. 20
| feet TO the southwest corner of Washiny-
ton avenue and Eleventh street. thence.
with the latter % degrees minute west
l4.jl feet TO Spring street thence with
the north side OF same o72 degrees -
minutes west 1S6 IL feet to the begin.
| ming. containing > go acres
Block No. ,. Beginning at Il point the
same being the northeast corner OF
Washington avenue and Tenth street,
thence with Tenth street north ) degrees
80 minutes east $3.50 feet to a point on
the south side of an alley, thence with
said alley $40 degrees II minutes east
16i.S feet to Elevnth street, thence with
the west side OF Eleventh street 81 de-
grees 0l minute west 394,5 feet to the
northwest corner OF Washington avenue
and Eleventh street. thence with WASH
ington avenue north 16 degrees 03 min
ntes west 5i4.3 81 feet to the beginning
containing D 0Si acres; excepting also one