Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-02-09
E. NJ. Cushing & Co, AuctIoneers
Commissioners sal
Of
Valuable Mineral Lands I!

By virtue of a decree of the circuit court
OF Augusta county entered on the 18th day
OF June. 1899, in the ~chancery cause of
Charles Settler against the Blue Ridge
MANGANESE and Iron Mining Company and
others, the undersigned will, as Commits
sloners therein appointed, proceed to sell
at public auction, in front of the court
house of Augusta county, in the city of
S%tauntOn, on
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1900,
the following valuable tracts or parcels of
mineral LANDS. Each of said tracts will be
sold separately, unless a sale OF all of them
in the lump or aggregate bring a price
which will pay all the debts of said COM
panY as stated in the report OF Master Com
missioner J. M. Kinney filed in the above
entitled cause on May the 18th, 1899, to-
gether with the cost of suit, the unpaid tax
es due on the said pieces or parcels of land.
The first OF said tracts or parcels of land
containing 2S1 acres, and is known as THE
Blue Bank tract, it being the same tract
conveyed by Juette Vines and wife to
Mabel L. Lightner. by deed dated February
4th, 1893, and recorded in County Clerks
ONCE ID. b.. l19, page 400, and subsequent
ly conveyed by Mabel I. Lightner and hus-
band to the Blue Ridge Manganese and
Iron Mining Company, by deed dated Ian
uary 14th, 1897, and recorded in the County
Courts Clerks Office D. i. 1856, page 1853.
The second tract or parcel of land con-
talnS 1273 acres, and is known as the Hi.
serman tract" and is the same tract or par
eel of land conveyed to the Blue Ridge
Manganese and Iron Mining Company bv
the heirs of Daniel Hiserman by deed dated
Septem Der 14th, 1896, and duly recorded in
the County Courts Clerks office in ID. b.
II. page 152.
On the last mentioned tract there has
been mined, and is upon the ground sever
| hT1nd ~n6 tong ~
which said minerals will be sold along with
the said last mentioned ''Hissrman tract"
The third tract or parcel of land contains
about 4OO acres, and is known as the
shields tract and is the same piece or
parcel of land conveyed to the Blue Ridge
Manganese and Iron Mining Company by
George A. and VIM. H. Shields, executors
of John A. Shields, deceased. bv deed
dated October 18th, 1897, and duly recorded
in the County Court Clerks office in D.. b.
127, page 269.
Each and all of the aforesaid pieces or
parcels of real estate are said to be yaIua-
bic as mineral lands, but have only been
partially developed, and each of them
make a good show, from the small devel-
Opment heretofore made.
IERMS OF SALE In the event that
all OF said pieces or parcels of real estate.
together with the Manganese mined and
on the ground on the fisherman tract
are sold together, the purchaser shall paw
enough cash in hand to pay the cost of
suit anc sale, including the premium on
the bonds of the Receiver, and bonded
commissions in this cause, together with
the taxes which were due, at the time of
the Institution of the aforesaid Chancery
cause, and which have since become due
upon each of the aforesaid parcels or pieces
OF land, and the residue on four equal an
nuaI lnStallments, to be evidenced by the
bonds of the purchaser, bearing date on
the day of sale with interest from said date.
and with good personal security thereon
railing due respectively, one, two, three
and tour years from date, and the title re-
tanned as ultimate security.
In the event the said pieces or parcels of
land should be sold separately, each pur.
chaser will be required to make a pro rata
cash payment of the cost of suit. sale.
taxes and premium on bonds as aforesaid
with any other purchaser or purchasers of
either or any of the other tracts sold On
said day, and for the balance on his pur-
cnase execute bonds for said balance or de-
lerred payments, dated as of the date of
sale, with interest from said date with
good personal security thereon, Calling
due respectively, one, two, three and four
years from date, and the title retained for
ultimate security.
TURNER K. HACKMAN.
JNO. B. COCHRAN.
DOM DR.,
Commissioners.
Clerks Office of the Circuit Court of Augnsta
County, to-wit:
I,Jos. Il. woodward, Clerk of the Court
aforesaid do certify that Turner K. Hacknan
ias executed the bond required by decree Of
ale IN the ~chancery cause of Chas. Seltzer
&c. vs.. Blue Ridge Manganese and Iron Mn
ng Company, &C., now pending in SAID
JOurt. III Saiu
Given under my hand this 18th dav of
anuary, 1900.
JOS. B. WOODWARD, Clerk.