Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-06-26
Decree for Sale.

FOURTH CIncuIr.-1N EQurry.
FREDERICK NJ. CoLsToN, Complainant,
against Columbia and Greenvillo Rail
road Company, Defendant.
In tho Matter of
BLUE RIDGE RAILROAD COMPANY.
10y VIRTUE OF TIE AUTHORITY
VESTED IN ME, under tho terms OF a
decree i'll tho above stated cause, signed
by His Honor Nathan Con, Judge of the
Circuit Court of tho United States, on
tho 1st day Of June, 1901, /, as Special
Master, will sell
ALL TIE PROPERTY, real and per-
sonal, rights of property, franchises and
interests of the Blue Ridge Railroad
Company of South Carolina and of the
Columbia and Grecnvilc Railroad Com
pany in the Blue Ridge Railroad, and
property hereinafter described, at pub
lie outcry, in front of the door of the
County Court House, at Anderson, South
Carolina, within the legal hours of sale,
on MONDAY, JULY 18th, 1901, upon
tho following terms, to wit:
FOR CASH: Provided, that no bid for
less than 100000 shall be accepted.
TIE FOLLOWING is A DESCRIp-
TION OF TIE PREMISES:
All that property known as the Blue
Ridge Railroad i'm South Carolina, in
cludng the roadbed, tho track, the iron
rails, right of way, supcrstructurc, the
sidc-tracks or turnouts, including the
iron Supcrstructure and roadbcd of said
track and sidc-tracks, turntables, the
several bridges, viaducts, culvcrts, cattle
guards, fences, depot buildings, machine
OF other shops, sheds, wood houses,
stone houses, water tanks, station houses,
and such other buildings of the several
kinds as belonged to said Blue Ridge
Railroad Company in South Carolina,
with tho land upon which the same
stood, or may stand, or has been or may
bc 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,
ccrnng the said Blue Ridge Railroad
Company in South Carolina, there being
about thirty three miles of railroad com.
plctcd as railroad, and also all tho 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
the supcrstructuro thereon, consisting of
Railroad, to-wit Excavations, cmbank-
mcnts, viadncts, culvcrts, bridges, abut-
mcnts and tunnels, and all other works
of every description constructed for the
use and purposes of tho said Blue Ridge
Railroad Company said railroad lying,
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
| QT) miles thereof. Also all the property
Of the Tennessee River Railroad Company
in North Carolina, including all the
rights of way and lands occupied by and
belonging to said Company, and ali f; an.
chiscs, rights and privileges of, i'm, to
or concerning the 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 seventy four miles thereof.
And also personal property, to wit: Six
teen hundred and fifty shares of the
capital stock of the Pondcton Railroad
Company; five thousand, four hundred
and ninety shares of the capital stock Of
tho Blue Ridge Railroad Company in the
State of Georgia; and four thousand,
four hundred shares Of tho capital stock
of the Tennessee Rivcr Railroad Com
pany in North Carolina, the same being
a majority of tho capital stock of each of
said two last mentioned companies,
said stock being all the stock owned in
several companies, by the Blue Ridge
Railroad Company in South Carolina.
Also tho following described lands and
personal property or so much thereof as
is not included in the foregoing dcscrip-
ton to wit
lst. All that tract of land, situate,
lying and being in tho State of South
Carolina and County of Oconcc formerly
Pickcns) on the Stump House Mountain,
@djo:;i;nG lands of Edward IIcrndon, j.
Edward Calhoun and others, composed
of the following pieces, parcels or tracts,
viz: One tract originally surveyed by
}. G.. Fitzpatrick for Thomas Strblng,
containing fivc hundred acres, more or
less, and one other tract adjoining tho
preceding tract, surveyed by j. Il. Kill
patrick for Jesse Stribling, containg five
hundred acres, moro or less. The entire
tracts herein conveyed having such
shape, marks, outings and bounds as
arc represented bya plat of ro-survcy
made by Robert Fullerton, ID. s., bearing
dato the first day Of March, A. D. 1915,
to which reference can bo had, being the
samc lands conveyed by NJ. l.. Keith and
Samuel Reid by decd bearing date
twentieth day of August, a. ID. 1853, to,
gcthcr with all and singular tho rights,
members, hcrcdtamcnts and appmrtc,
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