The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-07-14
SALE OF VALUABLE
LAM
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.

hOlIIkQOils
R. {. Ballard 1bruston,
Trustee,
". In Chancery.
The Big Stone Gap I'm
proyement Company.
Pursuant to decree of the Circuit
Court of the United States for the Western
District of Virginia catered in the above
cause on the It'll day of April, 1898, as
modified by decres entered in said cause
by said Court on the 18th day Of June,
1898, | will, az Special Commissioner,
Offer for sale at public cutlery to the
highest bidder for cash twenty-three
(23) tracts or parcels of land lying in aud
adjacent to the Town of Big Stone Gap,
in Wise County, Virginia:
LIST. A tract containing 10 acres,
known as the South Appalachian Land
Company tract
2nd. A tract containing 1857 acres
more or less.
3rd Another tract containing CAB
acres.
4th. Another tract or parcel Of land
adjoining the two above named tracts,
containing 1920 acres.
9Th. Another tract of land containing
1889 acres.
9th. Another tract or parcel of land
containing l0l.IS acres.
All OF the five aforesaid tracts being
known a. the Virginia. Tennessee and
Carolina Steel and Iron Company tracts
eth. Another tract Of land containing
l39 33 acres. known as the Josiah R'aud
tract.
Sth. Another tract containing 1905
acres more or less, known as the II. c. 4
NJ. b. Wood, and Whitridge and Fox tract.
9th An undivided two-nnths interest
in a tract of land containing 1879 acres
more or less. known as the Jones interest.
10th An undivided i, interest in IA
tract of land containing 226l acres,
known as the Gilly Mill tract.
llth. a tract containing 9l9 acres,
known as the Gilly Ridge tract.
18th. Another tract containing lOI'
acres.
18th. Another tract containing 81
acres.
nth. Another tract containing G?.le
acres.
18th. Another tract containing 95.e2
acres.
10th. Another tract containing 'j.1'
acres.
nth. Another tract continuing 2O.9'
acres.
The last aforesaid nine tracts being
lands conveyed to the Big Stone Gap Inn
proyemcnt Company 10y ". d. Jones and
others.
18th. An undivided !, interest in a
tract of land containing 81 30 acres.
18th. An undivided i. interest in tract
containing BIS acres subject to certain
exceptions specified in the deed.
The last two tracts being land conveyed
to the said Company by Il. G. Ballard
Thruston.
both. Another tract or parcel of land
containing 7lj3 acres, subject to the ex-
ception OF certain lots specified in the
deed, known as the NJ. b. Wood tract
2lst. An undivided = interest il
another tract OF land containing 12.3
acres, known a. the Virginia Coal and
Iron Company tract.
22nd. Another tract or parcel OF land
containing 3i.9j acres with one acre
excepted
23rd. Another tract or parcel of land
containing 56.4 acres with one acre eN-
cepted.
A large portion of the said tracts and
parcels Of land have been laid out aud
plated into parks lots, streets, roads and
alleys and piats thereof recorded in the
office of the CLERK OF the County Court OF
Wise County; and such park, road,
streets, and alleys, together with several