The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-06-16
SALE OF VALUABLE
LAND.
AT BIG STONE GAP, VA,
JULY 25TH, 1898.
In the Circuit Court Of the
United States for the West
ern District of Virginia, At
Abingdon.


by said Court Oh the 18th day of jun
1898, | will, as Special COMMISSIONS
offer for sale at public outcry to III
highest bidder for cash twenty-five
, (23) tracts or parcels of land lying in an
adjacent to the Town of Big Stone Ga
; in Wise County, Virginia:
LIST. A tract containing 479 acre
known as the South Appalachian Ian
Company tract.
2nd. A tract containing 1887 acre
more or less
Bird. Another tract containing 81 4
acres.
4th. Another tract or parcel of Ian
adjoining the two above named tracts
containing 1920 acres.
9TH. Another tract of land cOntainin
l0555 acres.
9th. Another tract or parcel of Ian
containing I0l is acres
All OF the five aforesaid tracts beinl
known as the Virginia, Tennessee AN,
Carolina Steel and Iron Company tracts
18th. Another tract of land containing
1879 80 acres, known as the Josiah kylant
tract.
9Th. Another tract containing 1871 D,
acres more or less, known as the II. &. a
NJ. b. Wood and Whitridge and Fox tract
9Th. An undivided two-nlnths interest
in tract of land containing 1871 acres
more or less, known as the Jones interest
10th. An undivided y interest in d
tract of land containing 226l acres
known AS the Gilly Mill tract.
tronf onutai,fu., al ocr..
known as the Gilly Ridge tract
18th. Another tract containing l0ii
acres.
18Th. Another tract containing 34.l
acres.
I4th. Another tract containing G2.ls
acres
10Th. Another tract containing 23.S2
acres.
10th. Another tract containing 1851
acres.
18th. Another tract containing 20.97
acres.
The last aforesaid nine tracts being
lands conveyed TO the Big Stone Gap I'm
provemeht Company by W. d. Jones and
others.
18th. An undivided l., interest in a
tract of land containing 30 acres.
18th. An undivided . interest in tract
containing 34S acres subject to certain
exceptions specified in the deed.
The last two tracts being land conveyed
to the said Company by K. Z. Ballard
ThrustOn.
10th. Another tract or parcel Of land
containing l4.j3 acres, subject to the eI-
ceplion OF certain lots specified in the
deed, known as the NJ. b. Wood tract.
2lst An undivided y interest in
another tract of land containing 52.3
acres, known as the Virginia Coal and
Iron Company tract.
22nd Another tract or parcel of land
containing 1925 acres with one acre
excepted.
23rd. Another tract or parcel of land
containing 76.4 acres with one acre ex-
cepted.
A large portion of the said tracts and
parcels of land have been laid out and
plated intO parks, lots, streets, roads and
alleys. and plats thereof recorded in the
office Of the Clerk of the County Court of
Wise County and such parks, roads,
streets, and ALLEYS, together with several
hundred town lots which have leen sold
by said improvement Company will be eI-
cepted in selling said tracts of land. A
list OF the lots which have been sold with
the numbers of the lots, blocks and
plats is included in the decree of sale in
this cause. The said lands and lots are
fully described in the maps aud plats filed
in the cause and the decree of sale TO which
reference is here made. A copy of said
decree and maps and plats may also be
seen at the Office Of the Special Commits
'ioner in Big Stone Gap.
The said sale Will be made on
the premises in Big Stone Gap,
Wise County, Virginia; on 25th
day of July. 1898, and the said
and will be sold as a whole,
and not in separate lots and
parcels.
No bid will he accepted from any per-
ION OF less than Thirty-fiVe
thousand dollars 1885, 100000 |
or the whole land, nor will any bid he ac-
.epted from any person who shall not first |
deposit with the Special Commissioner the
um of Ten thousand dollars
100000, in money, ora check pay
bile to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
he United States for the Western Dis
riot of Virginia, at Abingdon, for that
mount, upon United States National
Bank. duly certified by such Bank to he
God. The sale will be for cash which
hall he paid as aud when the Court shall
rider, but the purchaser may make part
ayment of the purchase money in cOu-
ons and bonds adjudged to be liens to
he extent or in the proportion which they
hall under the terms of the decree be en-
tiled to share in the purchase money.
nv certified check deposited with the
commissioner by any bidder whose bid is
OF accepted will be returned to him by
aid Commissioner; and, il any bidder
hose bid is accepted shall fail 10 comply
it'll his bid, the amount of the certified
heck deposited by him will be forfeited
; liquidated damages. and the amount
hereof applied to the payment Of expen-
IS. costs, and prior claims under the de-
rec of sale.
X. A. AYERS,
Inl6 24.29 Special Commissioner.