The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-07-21
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.

: The Big Stone Gap I'm
. proyement Company.
Pursuant 10 decree of the Circui
Court Of the United States for the Western
District Of Virginia catered in the abOv,
cause on the nth day of April. 1895, a:
mOdiheu by deere entered in said cause
by said Court on the 18Th day OF June
1898, | will, "a Special Commissioner,
offer for sale at public cutlery to the
highest bidder for cash twenty-three
OBJ tracts or parcels of land lying in and
adjacent to the Town of Big Stone Gap,
ia Wise County, Virginia:
LIST. A tract containing 40 acres,
known as the South Appalachian Land
/ Company tract;
2nd. A tract containing 1851 acres
more or less
Bird. Another tract containing e.
| acres.
9Th. Another tract or parcel of land
adjoining the two above named tracts,
containing 1920 acres.
9TH. Another tract of land containing
05.55 acres.
9th. Another tract or parcel of land
containing IOl Is acres
known as the Virginia, Tennessee and
Carolina Steel and Iron Company tracts.
Ith. Another tract of land containing
1888 acres, known a. the Josiah Ryland
tract.
9Th. Another tract containing l9I .05
acres more or less. known as the II. c. x
VI. b. W ood and Whitridge and Fox tract.
9Th. An undivided two-niuths interest
in tract OF land containing 1879 acres
more or less. known as the Jones interest.
10th. An undivided q, interest ia a
tract Of land containing 22GI acres.
known as the Gilly Viii tract.
Iltu. A tract containing 9lg acres,
known as the Giily Ridge tract
I2ih. Another tract containing l0.i7
acres.
18th. Another tract containing 81
acres.
lIth. Another tract containing G2ls
acres
18th. Another tract containing 23s2
acres
loth. Another tract containing 75.j7
acres.
IAN. Another tract containing 2097
acres.
he last aforesaid nine tracts being
lands conveyed To the Big Stone cap Inn
pro'cmtnt Company by ". u. Jones and
others.
18th. An undivided = interest in
ract of land containing 81 30 acres.
I9Ih An undivided Interest in tract
containing BIS acres subject to certain
exceptions specified in the deed.
The last two tracts being land conveyed
% the said Company 10y r. c. Ballard
Thruston.
10Th. Another tract OF parcel of land
containing iI.j3 acres, subject to the ex-
option OF certain lots specified in the
Iced, known As the NJ. i. Wood tract.
2lst. Am undivided !, interest in
mother tract of land containing J2.3
cues, known as the Virginia Coal and
ron Company tract.
22nd. Another tract or parcel Of land
obtaining 1928 acres with one acre
excepted.
BIRD. Another tract or parcel of land
obtaining IGI acres with one acre ex-
opted.
\ large portion of the said tracts and
arcels of land have been laid out aud
lated into parks, lots, streets, roads and
Keys. and plals thereof recorded IN the
ilice OF the Clerk Of the County Court of
Wise County, and such parks, roads,
trccts, and alleys, together with several
uudrcd town lots which have been sold
y said improvement Company viii beck
eptcd IN selling said tracts OF lund A
II OF thel0ts which have been sold with
he numbers OF the lots, blocks aud
lats is included in the decree of sale in
rs cause. The said lands and lots are
lily described in the maps aud plats filed
the cause and the decree OF sale 10 which
,icrence Is here made. 4 copy Of said
ccrce and maps and plats may also be
zen at the Office Of the Special Commits
oner in Big Stone Gap.
The said sale Will be madeon
he premises in Big Stone Gap,
Wise County, Virginia.; on 25th
ay Of July. 1898, and the said
and will be sold as q whole,
nd not IN separate lots and
arCelS.
40 bid viii be accepted from any per-
N Of less than Thlrty-five
nouSand dollars 100000
n The whole land, nor will any bid beac-
,pted from any person who shall not first
post with the Special Commissioners
IN Of Ten thousand dollars
SlO. 600. 90 IN money, ora check paw
be 10 the Clerk Of the Circuit Court Of
Ie United States for the Western Dis
let Of irginia, at Abingdon, for that
mount upon United States National
ank, duly certified by such Bank TO he
,od The sale will he for cash which
iall be paid "a and when the Court shall
der, but the purchaser may make part
,yment Of the purchase money in cou-
ms and bonds adjudged 10 be liens TO
re extent or ia the proportion which they
Iall under the terms Of the decree be en-
led TO share in the purchase money.
ny certified check deposited with the
by any bidder whose bid ID
IT accepted will he returned TO him by
i'd Commissioner; aud, if any bidder
hose bid is accepted shall fail to comply
ith his bid, the amount of the certified
Ieck deposited by him will be forfeited
liquidated damages, aud the amount
ereof applied to the payment Of expen-
:, costs, and prior claims under the de.
&c of sale.
X. A. AyERs,
Mo 2l-2J Special Commissioner.