Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-02-15
BANKRUPTCY TRUSTEES
SALE

|PUBLlC SALE
OF THE VALUABLE
CAT0CTIN FURNACE PROPERTY
AND PERSONAL PROPERTY CON-
NECTED HEREWITH IN FREDER.
lex COUNTY, MARYLAND.
By virtue OF the authority and under the
terms Of the Order of the Honorable Thomas
]. Morris, Judge of the United States Dis
trict Court, for the District Of Maryland, in
Bankruptcy, and passed on the date Novem-
Der 9th, in the year 1905, and in the supple.
mental Order ofsald Court, passed on the
date December 18th. in the year 1905, In the
cause wherein Frank Portner, ct al, are the
plaintiffs, and the Blue Mountain Iron and
Steel Company of Baltimore City,, a corpor-
alton, is the defendant, and being No. 1923,
Bankrupts, In Bankrupt Docket "E" in said
Court, we, the undersigned, Trustees IN
Bankruptcy, will offer at public sale, on the
premises, ut the office building ut "Catoctin
Furnace" in Frederick County, Maryland,
| on
Monday. February 10, 1905,
beginning at the hour of IL o'clock, noon, all
the real estate of which the Blue Mountain
| Iron and Steel Co. of Baltimore City, was
seized and possessed at the time OF the filing
of the Petition in Bankruptcy agnints It. and
which has come into the possession Of said
trustees.
Said real estate consists Of the quantity OF
1867 acres Of land,
more or less, situated, lying and being in
Mechanicstown, Lewistown, Hauvers and
Catoctin Districts in Frederick County,
Maryland, and being al the real estate as de
scrlbed in the Deed from Harry P. Gorsuch,
ct al, Receivers, to Ernest Sharp dated Apr
il nth, 1850, and recorded in Lber d. II. H.
No. 3, folio GA, etc, one Of the Land Rec
ords of Frederick County, Maryland. This
property is commonly known as the Catoc-
tin Iron Works, was formerly owned BY COL
John Bal; er Kunkcl, and is located about 10
miles north from Frederick and about 3
miles south from Thurmont whcl is on the
Western Maryland Railroad, with which
place 1t is connected by means of the Mo
nocacy Valley Railroad, about 8 miles in
length.
This property is improved with.
(a) A Coke Furnace with former capac
ity of about 40 tons per day.
() A large frame store and office building.
(c) A large two story well built 16 room
dwelling house, with necessary outbul'dngs.
| (d) Carpenter and black smith shops, car
riage, lumber and cornhouses, stables for 80
horses etc.
icy About GO tenement houses for the use
of the employees about and at the furnace.
There are on these lands, large deposits of
hematite iron ore which are readily access
ible, have long been mined, and are believed
to be pracr cally inexhaustihe. The ore is
/ of excellent quality, in close proximity to
the furnace, to which it is carried by Stand
ard Guage track about one mile in length
from the large ore banks.
A deposit of magnetic iron ore Unsurpassed
great richness has been traced for two miles
upon the property:-These deposits OF mag
netic ore are undeveloped, further thar by a
number of shallow shafts, but there is be-
lieved to be large deposit of this ore.
There arc also believed to be on these
lands large beds of ochres and umbers OF
rich shades, and of a superior euality, capa-
BILE of being mined and prepared at a very
low cost.
There are also large quantities CT pure
white flint upon the property, quarry OF
which is now open.
Large quantities of fine chestnut timber,
with some locust and poplar trees are upon
the greater portion of tins large tract o:
land.
About 1000 acres of this land is subject to
two annultics Of 500 each IN favor OF Mary
Catherine Kunkel and Amelia Frances Kun
keel, under the will Of John Kunkel, deceas-
ed.
Many thousands of carloads Of Stag or fur
mace refuse are also on the property, and
which is valuable and easily sold at agood
profit for railroad ballast.
Little Hunting creek runs through the
property, and is believed to be capable of
furnishing water power OF about 1000
horsepower at the furnace for electrical or
other purposes.
This property will be offered as whole,
and should command the attention OF iron
producers and users throughout the country.
1t is u valuable property, and cnn be made to
yield large returns for investment Of capital,
A plat of the property can be seen by ap
plication to the Trustees.
Immediately after the sale of The real es-
tate, the Trustees will also offer at public
sale, many articles of personal property on
the premises, includiuga
BARNHART IMPROVED, STYLE "a"
Il YARD STEAM SHOVEL,
made by Marion Steam Shovel Co. a large
ORE JIG AND WASHER
made by the McLanahan Stone Machine Co.,
and numerous other articles.
TERMS OF SALE Of the Real Estate,
One Third Cash Money at the time of the
sale, or ratification thereof by the Court, the
residue in two equal annual payments, the
purchaser or purchasers giving his, her or
| their promissory notes for the deferred pay
ments. bearing interest from the ratification
of the sale, and with surcties approved by