Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-07-10
BLUE RIDGE RAILROAD COMPANY

III the Matter of
BLUE RIDGE RAILROAD COMPANY.
DY VIRTUE OF TIE AUTHORITY
VESTED IN ME, under the torms of a
dcoreo in tho above stated cause, signed
by His Honor Nathan Gon, Judge of tho
Circuit Court of tho United States, on
tho 1st day of June, 1901, l, as Special
Master, will sell
ALL TIE PROPERTY, real and pcr-
sonal, rights of property, franchises and
interests of the Bluo Ridge Railroad
Company of South Carolina and of the
Columbia and Grccnville Railroad Com
pany in the Bluo Ridge Railroad, and
property hereinafter described, ut pub
lie outcry, in front of the door of the
County Court House, at Anderson, South
Carolina, within tho legal hours of sale,
on MONDAY, JULY 18th, 1901, upon
the 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 rs tho Bluo
Ridge Railroad in South Carolina, in
cluding tho roadbcd, the track, the iron
rails, right of way, supcrstructurc, tho
sldc-fracks or turnouts, including the
iron superstructure and roadbcd of said
track and side tracks, turntables, the
several bridges, viaducts, culvcrts, cattle
guards, fences, depot buildings, machine
or 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 the land upon which tho same
stood, or may stand, or has been or may
be constructed, tho engines, tenders,
cars, tools, materials, machinery, and
each and every real and personal pro-
perty appcrtaining to or connected with
or forming part OF said Bluo 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-thrce miles of railroad com
pcrty of tho Blue Ridge Railroad Com
pany in Georgia, including all tho right
OF way and lands occupied by and be-
longing to said Company, together with
the supcrstructurc thereon, consisting of
tho partially constructed works of sai,,
Railroad, to-wit Excavations, embank-
mcnts, viaducts, culvcrts, bridges, abut-
ments and tunnels, and all other works
of every description constructed for the
Railroad Company said railroad lying,
extending and being between the
boundary line of tho State Of Georgia
and South Carolina and the boundary
lines of tho States of Georgia and North
Carolina, there being about seventeen
QD miles thereof. Also all tho property
of tho Tennessee River Railroad Company
in North Carolina, including all the
rights of way and lands occupied by and
belonging to said Company, and all fran
chiscs, rights and privileges Of, in, 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 tho States of
North Carolina and Tennessee, there
being about scvonty-four miles thereof.
And also personal property, to wit: Six
capital stock Of tho Pondlcton Railroad
Company; five thousand, four hundred
and ninety shares of tho capital stock Of
tho Blue Ridge Railroad Company i'm tho
State of Georgia; and four thousand,
four hundred shares of the capital stock
of tho Tennessee River Railroad Com
pany in North Carolina, tho same being
n majority of the capital stock of each of
said two last mentioned companies,
said stock being all tho stock owned i'm
several companies, by tho 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:
LIST. All that tract of land, situate,
lying and being in the State of South
Carolina and County of Oconco 0ormorly
Pickens) on tho Stump House Mountain,
adjoining lands of Edward IIcrndon, j.
Edward Calhoun and others, composed
of the following pieces, parcels or tracts,
VIZ Ono tract originally surveyed by
j.. G. Fitzpatrick for Thomas Stribline.
containing iivo hundred acres, more or or
less, and ono other tract adjoining the
preceding tract, surveyed by j. H.. Kill
patrick for Jesse Stribling, containg five
hundred acres, moro or less. Tho entire
tracts herein conveyed having such
shape, marks, outings and bounds as
arc represented bya plat of rc-survoy
made by Robert Fullerton, d. S., bearing
dato tho first day of March, A. y. 1913.
to which reference can bo had, being tho
samo lands conveyed by NJ. l.. Koitll and
Samuel Reid by decd bearing date
twentieth day of August, A. ID. 1853, to-
gcthcr with all and singular tho rights.
members, horcditamcnts and appnrto,
nanccs to tho said promises belonging or
in nnywisc incident or apportaining, tho
said promises being thu samn nonununi