The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1913-12-17
Notice.

Is u
alton. Mineral Development Com.
lany. corporation. and all other
persons whom IL may concern:
TAKE NOTICE that the Interstate
Railroad Company, a public service cor
poratton, chartered and doing business
under the laws OF the Commonwealth of
Virginia. and authorized TO condemn
lands AMI other properties, or any inter.
est or estate therein, for its
uses and purposes, viii on the 9Th
day ofJanuary ,l0ti. that being the fourth
day OF the january, 1911, term OF the
Circuit Court OF Wise County, Virginia.
apply to the said Court mt the Court
House of the said county in the town of
Gladevillc, for the appointment of Ave
lOl uisintereStcd freeholders resident in
said county To ascertain what would be
Just compensation for the fee of the
strip or parcel of land hereinafter de
scribed. the fee simple estate in which
y proposed To be condemned by the un.
dcfsigncd, Interstate Railroad Company,
Tor its uses and purposes In constructing,
maintaining and operating an extension
of its main line track from point ut
It's present terminus nj the West end OF
the Town OF Norton Wise County, Vir.
sinia. through the said Town OF Norton,
10 point Mt or near the Eastern limits
Vt the said TOXIN of Norton to "A connec-
ton with what was formerly the rail
road of the Wise Terminal Company,
which last named railroad Is now owned
and being operated 10y the undersigned
Company; and to award damages, IL
amy, resulting to the adjacent and other
property of the said Norton Coal Com.
lNny a corporation, the said Mineral
Development Company, n corporation, or
10 the property Of any ether person be-
yond..th peculiar benefits that will ac-
crnc 10 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
i'll the petition. description. plat of SUR
vey and profile filed by the Interstate
Railroad Company III the Clerks Office
| of Wise County, Virginia, on the 9th
day of December, 1913, in this proceed
ing. which is styled. Interstate
Railroad Company v Norton Coal Com
pany, Mineral Development Company at
al. y; to which petition. description. plat
ut survey and profile reference Is here
made; and is situate In or near the Town
of Norton, Wise County. Virginia. and
is described rs follows:
All that certain strip OF parcel of land
owned by the Norton Coal Company
and the Mineral Development Company.
Beginning ut stake on the line of the
Clinchiiclj Coal Corporations land;
thence with said line Sonth sixty-scvcn
degrees and thirty minutes West a dis
innce of nineteen and fvc.tenths feet To
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 q curve TO the left
| Northwnrdly with radius OF three
hundred and thiriy-four and twenty
seven hundredths fec, distance of ono
hundred and fourteen aud five teHths
| feet to u stake which stands twenty-five
feet from and ut RICH; angles to the cen.
| ter line of the Wise Terminal or ella.
morgan Division of the Interstate Rail
road Company; thence South twenty de.
| grees and forty two minutes East par
allel 20 and twenty-five feet from the
center line Of said railroad IA distance of
one hundred and eleven ana iive-tcnths
teci 10 the beginning containing fifteen
one thousandths t0l5l of AN acre, more
or less
And being the same strip or parcel of
| land shown ON the plat of the survey
OF the strip or parcel of land sought To
he condemned by the Interstate Rail-
road Company III u proceeding institn
ted 10y il against the Norton Coal Com
pany Mineral Development Company.
ct al, III the Circuit Conrt of Wise
County. Virginia, and profile showing
the cuts and fills. trestes and bridges. -
which said plat and profile are filed in
the Clerks Office of Wise County with
the petition in this cause Ut the time Of
the institution of this preceding
II you have any defense to make To
this application you VIII at the time and
place aforesaid make the same known TO
the said Court
Witness the signature OF tho Inter
state Railroad Company. by a. H.
Reeder its General Manager, this the
9th day of December, 1918
INTERSTATE RAILROAD COMPANY,
BY ~ IL Reeder,
General Manager
Bullitt & chalkley, p. a,