Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-04-13

HUI w OllC llullulCu Will
lion Feet of Timber, of
Which About 70 per cent.
Is Oak Cred, White and
Rock), and Balance Pop
lar, Chestnut and Other
Woods Found in Virginia.
By authority of, and pursuant
to decree made by the District
Court of the United States for The
Western District of Virginia, on the
23rd day of October, 1916, at
Lynchburg, Virginia, in the cause
in equity therein pending in which
the United States Lumber Com
pany is plaintiff and j. K. Griffith,
the Highland Lumber Company
and others, are defendants, the un-
dersigned Randolph Harrison and
A. B. Percy, special commissioners,
appointed under said decree, will
offer for sale at public auction at
the front door of the Court House
of Augusta County, Virginia, in
the City of Staunton, on
TUESDAY, MAY %, 1917,
commencing at one o clock P. NJ,
all of the lands and property and
estate, timber and timber rights,
aud contracts in said decree men
toned, being the same property
mentioned aud described in GER
tain deed dated July Goth, 1918,
executed by the United States
Lumber Company unto j. K. Crit
6tn and recorded in the County of
Highland, Virginia, in Deed Book
No. Is, page III, and in Augusta
County, Virginia, in Deed Book
No. ITS. page sos, which property
was subsequently conveyed by the
said J. K. Griffith to the Highland
Lumber Company by deed dated
November 18th, 1913, and duly re-
corded in said Counties--as such
descriptions have been corrected
and modified by the said decree of
October 23rd, 1916, as follows,
that is to say
| % All that certain lot. tract or
parcel of land in fee situated in
Highland County, Virginia, on the
waters of Cow Pasture River,
known as the "Charles Gwin
Tract" heretofore conveyed as
containing 1900 acres, and now as.
certained, according to a recent
survey, to contain 192S.27 acres;
~ All that certain tract, piece
or parcel of and in fee in Highland
County and in Bath County, Vir-
ginia, lying on Bull Pasture Noun
tain above Williamsville and be-
tween Cow Pasture River and Bull
Pasture River, known as the BYRD
Tract" heretofore conveyed as
containing 240O acres, more or less,
subject to reservations, and now
ascertained by recent survey to
contain a total area of 2O6S .83
acres, subject to the following res
e 'vations, to-wit:
|. The Rich Sinks Hacking,
containing 1875 a.
2. The Hodge Hacking
containing SS.16
8. The Peach Orchard
Tract, containing BIG
4. The Floyd Kincaid
Tract containing 81 "a
as we'll as the following
interlocks, to-Wit:
Il. With w "A Meats tract Is IS a.
2. With S. A. Lockridge
Tract 5.l5
8. With W. P.B. Lockridge
Tract Is 90
such reservations and interlocks
totaling an area of 403 Is acres,
making the net acreage of the
aforesaid BYRD Tract" hereby
conveyed 1665.70 acres.
60 All that certain tract, piece
or parcel of land in fee lying in
Bull Pasture Mountain. and on
each side thereof, between Cow
Pasture River and Bull Pasture
River in Highland county, Virginia,
known as the "SusaH Sommers
Tract" heretofore conveyed as
containing 2l00 acres, subject to
certain reservations, and now as
certained by recent survey tc con-
tain a total acreage of 1885
acres, included in which acreage,
however, are the following inter-
locks to be deducted, to. wit:
(a) With Lucy Hupman tract l a.
(b) With Peter A. " tract 5. OF
making a total acreage to be de-
ductod of 6.O7 acres and leaving
the net acreage of said Susan Som
mers tract hereby conveyed 1882 OS
acres.
(4) All that tract of land in fee
situate east of Cow Pasture River
on the west side of the Shenandoah
Mountain, Highland county, Vir-
sinia, known as the IS. M. Neil
Tract" containing S07.Sl acres,
more or less;