Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-04
NOTICES.
LEGAL NOTICES.
Sale Of Valuable Oil Property
by Court Commissioners.
n the Circuit Court of Monongalia
County, West Virginia.

county, west virginia.
IN CHANCERY.
Charles A. Weaver, David J. states,
tus A. Straub, Charles l.. Straub. IT.
John n. Straub, Bertha G.. Letzkus,. Ed
ma K. Straub. and Frieda A. Straub, Alma
straub, Archibald j.. straub and Elisa
Straub, said Frieda. Alma, Walter. Rus
sell, Archibald and Elisa Straub being
all minors, who sue by Chares I. ssraue'
George H. Jones. Edgar NJ. Lewis, II. w.
Hunter, ]. NJ. Sullivan, Fred l.. Drew.
Charles NJ. Root and v. 7. Clayton.
Plaintiffs,
Jerome B. Akin, A. P. Taught. T. S. Nc
Cay, and the Eureka Pipe Line Com
pany, a corporation. Defendants.
BY virtue Of DEGREES rendered IN the
above entitled cause on the 9th day OF
February, 1900, and on the 18th day of
February, 1901, the undersigned special
Saturday, the 30th Day of March,
A. ID. 1901,
commencing at ten o'clock a. M, at the
front door of the court house or Monon-
gala county, in the city of Morgantown,
West Virginia. sell at public auction, 70
the highest and best bidder, the ieasehold
interest is held by the said plaintiffs. and
by the said defendant. Jerome Il. Akin. py
and under the lease dated September letn,
1857, from A. p. Taught to Charles powers.
od1l OStAA6
leasehold interests created by ana exist
ing in and to the A. P. Hausht farm un-
der the said lease, such sale and WORKING
interests to include all the rights. ute
and interests OF all the parties to this
suit in and to the machinery, boilers, cas-
ing, tubing. tanks, wood rigs. pipes, tools
and all fixtures used in. about or witt the
two wells now on said farm, the SAID
lease granting to the said Powers tunuer
whom the plaintiffs and SAID Jerome %.
Akin claim under assignments all OF such
INT ractuN oil tha oil md ga IN and nnOer
the said farm, together with the rlght
to enter thereon at all times for the pur-
pose OF drilling and operating tof OH, sdS
or water, and to erect and MAINTAIN al
buildings and structures, lay all pipes ana
make all connections necessary Tor the
production and transportation or oil, gas
or water taken from SAID farm eAcepeal
ing and reserving. however. to the said
A. p. Taught the one-eighth part OF an
oil produced from the sad leased prem
Uses, to be delivered to the pipe line with
ing all that certain tract of land In the
district of Battelle. in Monongalia county,
in the State of West Virginia, and bound
ed and described as follows, to-wits
On the North by lands OF Merryman
Price and others;
On the East by lands of A. P. Johnson;
On the South by lands of A. F. Johnson
On the West by and of Benson NICK
els and others,
Containing one hundred and sixty-one
acres more or less. including In such work
Ing IeaS6n0Id interests ana Sdl6 al thc
rights, title and interest of all the parties
to this suit in and TO the machinery,
boilers. casing, tubing, tanks, WOOD rlss'
pipes, tools, and all fixtures used IN,
about or with the two oil wells now on
said farm.
There have been two oil wells drilled on
the said farm under said lease, one OF
which has been a paying producer Tor
about two years past, and the other for
about one year and a half past. The said
lease is of record in the office of the clerk
of the county court OF sad Mononsalld
county. in the court house in Morgantown
in deed book No. DC, page 80, ana reier-
ence to such lease as there recorded Is
here made. Such working interests VIII
be sold separately in the south Ill acres
of said farm, said Ill acres being south or
a line drawn due east and west through
said farm, with such machinery, tools ana
fixtures used in, about or with the OIL
we'll on said III acres, from such work
ing interests in the remaining 30 acres OF
the farm, with the machinery, tools n
fixtures used in. about or with the OIL
we'll on said so acres.
Terms of Sale-One-third and as much
more of the purchase money as the pur-
chaser shall elect to pay IN cash, the re-
mainder in two equal installments, pay
able at one and two years from the date
of sale. with interest from that day, the
purchaser to give his promissory notes
with personal security satisfactory TO me
commissioners making the sale, bearing
interest from said day OF sale for each OF
said installments, and paynen or the
said notes shall be further secured by. the
title to the property sold being retained
until the same are paid.
GEORGE b. CALDWELL.
GEO c. BAKER,
Special Commissioners.
7, William E. Glasscock. Clerk OF the
Circuit Court of Monongaiia county, IN
the State Of West Virginia, do certify that
bono and security has been given by Geo.
B. Caldwell and Geo. G. Baker. the above
named Special Commissioners, as required
by law the DEGREES of said court.
Given under my hand as such clerk this
18th day Of February. A. d. 1871.
VIM. E. GLASSCOCK,
mh4oawt Clerk.