Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-07-03
Decree for Sale.
In tho Matter of

BLUE RIDGE RAILROAD COMPANY.
DY VIRTUE OF TIE AUTHORITY
VESTED IN ME, under the terms OF a
decree in the above stated cause, signed
by His Honor Nathan Con, Judge of the
Circuit Court of tho United States, on
the 1st day of June, 1901, /, as Special
Master, will sell
ALL TIE PROPERTY, real and pcr-
sonal, rights of property, franchises and
interests of the Blue Ridge Railroad
Company of South Carolina and of tho
Columbia and Grcenvile Railroad Com
pany in the Blue Ridge Railroad, and
property hereinafter described, at pub
lie outcry, in front of tho door of tho
County Court House, at Anderson, South
Carolina, within the legal hours OF sale,
on MONDAY, JULY 18th, 1901, upon
the following terms, to wit:
FOR CASH: Provided, thai no bid for
less than 100000 shall be accepted.
TIE FOLLOWING IS A DESCRIp-
TlON OF TIE PREM ISES:
All that property known as the Blue
Ridge Railroad in South Carolina, in
clnding the roadbed, the track, the iron
rails, right of way, supcrstructurc, the
side tracks or turnouts, including tho
iron supcrstructure and roadbcd Of said
track and sidctracks, turntables, the
several bridges, viaducts, culvcrts, cattle
guards, fcne cs, depot buildings, machine
OF other shops, sheds, wood houses,
stone houses, water tanks, station houses,
and such other buildings of tho several
kinds as belonged to said Blue Ridge
Railroad Company in South Carolina,
with the land upon which the same
stood, or may stand, or has been or may
DC constructed, the engines, tenders,
cars, tools, materials, machinery, and
each and every real and personal pro
pcrty appcrtaining to or connected with
or forming part of said Blue Ridge Rail
road in South Carolina.
Also, all those certain franchises,
rights and privileges of, in, to or con
corning the said Blue Ridge Railroad
Company in South Carolina, there being
about thirty-thrcc miles of railroad com
plctcd as railroad, and also all the pro-
pcrty of the Blue Ridge Railroad Com
pany in Georgia, including all the right
of way and lands occupied by and be.
longing to said Company, together with
tho supcrstructurc thereon, consisting of
the partially constructed works of said
Railroad. to-wit Excavations, cmbank-
mcnts, yiaducts, culyerts, bridges, abut-
mcnts and tunnels, and all other works
of every description constructed for the
use and purposes of the said Blue Ridge
| Railroad Company said railroad living.
extending and being between the
boundary line of the State Of Georgia
and South Carolina and the boundary
lines of tho States of Georgia and North
Carolina, there being about seventeen
Q7) miles thereof. Also all the property
of tho Tennessee River Railroad Company
| in North Carolina, including all tho
rights of way and lands occupied by and
belonging to said Company, and all fran
| chiscs, rights and privileges of, in, to
or concerning tho said Railroad Com
pany, said line of railroad and right of
way lying, extending and being between
the boundary lines between the States of
Georgia and North Carolina and the
boundary lines between the States of
North Carolina and Tennessee, there
being about scvcnty-four miles thereof.
And also personal property to wit: Six
teen hundred and fifty shares of tho
capital stock of tho Pcndlcton Railroad
Company; five thousand, four hundred
and ninety shares of the capital stock of
the Blue Ridge Railroad Company i'm tho
State of Georgia; and four thousand.
| four hundred shares of the capital stock
Of tho Tc"acsSoc River Railroad Com
pany in North Carolina, the same being
| q NJ m co ifnl OF ,,co
said two last mentioned companies.
said stock being all tho stock owned i'm
several companies, by the Blue Ridge
railroad Company in South Carolina.
Also the following described lands and
personal properly or so much thereof ms
is not included in the foregoing dcscrip.
ton to wit
1st. All that tract of land, situate,
lying and being in tho State of South
Oarolina and County of Oconcc Qormcrly
l'lckonS) on the Stump House Mountain.
adjoining lands of Edward IIcrndon, j.
Edward Calhoun and others, composed
OF the following pieces, parcels or tracts,
viz One tract originally surveyed by
j. G. Fitzpatrick for Thomas StriblinG.
containing five hundred acres, more or
less, and one other tract adjoining the
preceding tract, surveyed by j. L.. XII
patrick for Jesse Stribling, containg five
hundred acres, more or less. The entire
tracts herein conveyed having such
shape, marks, outings and bounds as
are represented by plat Of rc-surycy
made by Robert Fullerton, ID. S., bearing,
date the first day of March, a. ID. 1915,
to which reference can he had, being the
same lands conveyed by NJ. l.. Keith and
Samuel Reid by deed bearing date
twcnticth day of August, A. ID. 1853, to.
gcthcr with all and singular tho rights,
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