The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1913-12-10
Notice.

alton, Mineral Development Com
iany a corporation. and all other
persons whom IT may concern
TAKE NOTICE that the Interstate
Railroad Company. u public service cor
poration. chartered and doing business
under the laws Of the Commonwealth OF
Virginia, and authorized 10 condemn
lands and other properties, or any inter
est or estate therein. for its
uses and purposes, will on the sth
day of)anuary. 1914. that being the fourth
day OF the january, 1911, term of the
Circuit Court of Wise County, Virginia,
apply to the said Court at the Court
House of the said county in the town OF
Gladeville, for the appointment of five
i5l disinterestel frceholders resident i'm
SAID county To- ascertain what would he
II Just compensation for the fee uf the
strip or parcel of land hereinafter de.
scribcd, the fee simple estate in which
Is proposed to be condemned 10y the I'M
dersigncd, Interstate Railroad Company.
Tor Its uses and purposes in constructing,
maintaining and operating an extension
OF its main line truck from point at
lis present terminus ut the West end OF
the Town of Norton. Wise County. Nir.
GINA, through the said Town of Norton,
To point at or near the Eastern limits
OF the said Town of Norton to a connec.
tion with what was formerly the rail
road of the Wise Terminal Company,
which last named railroad is now owned
and being operated by the undersigned
Company, and To award damages. II
any. resulting TO the adjacent aud other
property of the said Norton Coal Com
pany. a corporation. the said Mineral
Development Company, corporation. or
to the property of any other person. he.
a
cruc to such properties, respectively.
from the construction and operation Of
the works of the undersigned
The said strip or parcel OF land is the
same mentioned, described and shown
| III the petition, description. plat of sur
vey and profile filed by the Interstate
Railroad Company in the Clerk Office
of Wise County. Virginia. on the nth
day Of December. 1918, in this proceed
ing which is styled, Interstate
Railroad Company v Norton Coal Com
pany, Mineral Development Company ct
| al. y; TO which petition, description, plat
of survey and profile reference is here
made and Is situate III or near the Town
of Norton, Wise County, Virginia, and
is described us follows.
All that certain strip or parcel OF land
| owned by the Norton Coal Company
and the Mineral Development Company,
Beginning at stake on the line Of the
Clinchfleld Coal Corporations land;
thence with said line South sixty-seven
degrees and thirty minutes West u dis.
| lance of nineteen and fiye-tcnths feet to
II stake which stands twenty. five feet
| from and at right angles To the center
line of the Interstate Railroad location
| through the Town of Norton, Virginia.
thence running on II curve to the left
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hundred and thirtyfOur and twenty
seven hundrcdths feet IL distance of one
hundred and fourteen and iive-tcnths
feet 10 a stake which stands twenty five
feet from and at right angles 10 the cen
ter line of the Wise Terminal or CHA.
morgan Division of the Interstate Rail.
! road Company; thence South twenty de.
grecS and fortytwo minutes East par
allel 10 and twenty-five feet from the
center line of said Railroad a distance Of
one hundred and eleven and five tenths
feet 60 the beginning; containing fifteen
one-thousandths t0i5j OF an acre. more
or less:
And being the same strip or parcel OF
land shown ON the plat of the survey
of tile strip or parcel of land sought To
be condemned by the Interstate Rail
road Company in u proceeding insti;u.
ted by IL against the Norton Coal Com
pany, Mineral Development Company.
ct nj, in the Circuit Court Of Wise
County Virginia and profile showing
the cuts and ILLS, trestlcs and bridges
which said plat and profile are filed in
the Clerks Oilice OF Wise County with
the petition in this cause st the time of
the institution of this proceeding.
II yon have any defense to make to
this application you VIII ut the time and
place aforesaid make the same known to
the said Court
Witness the signature of the Inter
state Railroad Company, by A. II
heeder its General Manager. this the
9Th day Of December. 1913.
INTERSTATE RAILROAD COMPANY,
BY a. II. Reeder,
General Manager
Bnllitt & Chalkley, p. q.