The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-03-16
A BIG TRUST DEED RE-
CORDED.
Virginia Iron, Coal g. Coke
Company Is Now Ready
for Business.

y for Business.
The following deed of trust ha,
g been recorded at the office Of tn,
clerk OF the county court of Pulaski.
and other counties IN Virginia and
r Tennessee:
NOW this indenture witnessetb
that the Virginia Iron, Coal and
Coke Co., for and in consideration of
the premises, and of one dollar to be
paid by the Manhattan Trust Co..
grants and conveys the Manhattan
Trust Co., of New York City. trustee,
party OF the second part. all of the
following nam ed or described proper
ties IN the cities CT Bristol, Radford.
Roanoke and Buena Vista, and in
the counties of Washington, Wise.
Smyth, Russell, Dickinson. Wythe.
Pulaski. Carroll, Montgomery, Roa-
n0ke, Botetourt, and Bedford. in the
state OF Virginia, and in the counties
OF Sullivan, Carter, Unicoi and John
son, IN the state o. Tennessee, in.
GLIDING nine iron blast furnaces. a
morse shoe and rolling mill. coke
ovens, cOking coal and steam coal. on
boundaries of over fifty thousand
acres of land; the limonite and brown
hematlte, or mountain and other iron
ore, on boundaries of over sixty-fye
thousand acres of land, and the tram
way, railroad and other roads and
fixtures used in connection with such
furnaces, and the mining operations
on such lands, to-wit:
All the lands and interests in lands.
leases, coal, minerals, metals. ores.
mining rights and privileges-oils,
gases, salt water, timber, furnaces.
buildings. coke ovens, furnaces and (
railways and equipments per- (
to the furnaces and mines of
company, all ways and rights of
way, and mining machinery and
equipments which are conveyed to
he party of the first part by the fol-
owing deeds, and which are situated
n the states of Virginia and Tennes.
ee. :
|. Deed Of Carter Coal and Iron
dated Jan. y, 1899, and record.
d IN the office of the clerk of the
ounty court Of Pulaski county, and N
Their counties in Virginia. c.
2. Deed of Virginia Development :
o, dated Jan. u, 1899, and re-
'rdcd in Office of the clerk Of the
court of Wythe county.
3. Deed of Logan NJ. Bullitt and I
lie, dated Feb. |, 1899, and record
in the office Of the clerk of the
'unty court of Wythe county. c
a.. Deed Of Samuel A. Grocer, -,
ted Feb. 10, 1899, and recorded in
e office Of the clerk of the county
urt of WytIe county.
D. Deed of Edith Iron Mining
D.. dated Feb. 10, 1899. and re- cIo'
in the office of the clerk of the -
unity court of Botetourt county.
.. Deed Of Grocer Iron Co., dated Co
b. 10, 1899, and recorded in the
ice OF the hustings court Of Roanoke
lnty. Go
I. Deed of II. G.. Peters, special r,
nmlssioner, and others, dated Feb. IN
1899, and recorded in the office Of =
clerk OF corporation court Of the M(
V of Bristol, Va, except the 80
t wide strip Of land conveyed to H.
Virginia and Southwestern Rail
y Co.. by deed dated Feb. IS, 1899. Fir
Deed of Geo. l.. Carter and -
e, dated Feb. /, 1899, and record
in the office Of the clerk of the nj
nty court Of Pulaski county. -
l.. Deed OF +. p. Borden, dated pu,
}. 20, 1899, and recorded in the Eyt
office of johnson county,
At
igned by Geo. l.. Carter. presi-
t, and Casper II. Eicks assist mayl.
= -
he state tax on the property con
by the above company is s., 900,
the war tax is $4,000, making a Z
Of $12,OOO.-PWoski Neus- l
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