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Wc will sell to the highest bidder, 8 farms cut from a tract contain
ing 4(iJ acres, known as the Lumpkin Old Place, being the place where
A. (i. Wright now lives. This farm is located 4 1-2 miles north of Ath
ens on the Commerce road. It is within a few hundred yards of a good
school, two stores, and a large brick manufacturing plant, railroad
frontage.
LOT NO 1, containing 63.12 acres, has a beautiful building site
fronting Commerce road; has enough wood and timber to keep up
place; a large level field containing 50 acres; some bottom land; well
watered.
LOT NO. 2, containing 41.12 acres, lies fairly well; one nice tenant
house; plenty of road frontage on the Colts Mill road; woodland suffi
cient for home use for many years to come; this lot is gently rolling
hut has some fine level branch bottom land and the road frontage of
15 or 20 acres is level.
LOT NO. 3, containing 56.34 acres, has on it a tenant house of seve
ral rooms, fine wel 1 of water, about 15 acres of level strong laud in
cultivation, the balance in original forest; some extra fine saw timber
on this lot; a spring is in the heart of this place and spring branch
runs through the lot; this is an extra good lot for a man who wants a
small tract.
LOT NO. 4, is perhaps the best lot in this subdivision and contains
42.9 acres, with road frontage, beautiful building sites, 10 or 12 acres
of fine branch bottoms and every foot of the entire tract is level.
LOT NO. 5, known as the home tract, contains 123.22 acres; has a
7-ioom dwelling, gin house, convenient outhouses of all kinds, with
good tenant house, and two large barns, garage and shop; one ol the
Sale Opens 11 o’Clock Fast Time. Be on Time. Don’t Forget the Date, July 22nd, 1919
We will sell to the highest bidder, six farms to be carved from the
W. Iv Broach River Place in Oglethorpe County, -5 1-2 miles of Berk
ley or Carlton, Georgia.
This is a magnificent farm of 500 acres, has a number of good dwel
lings and tenant houses, and a large per cent ol this tract is level; ot
the very finest grade of red chocolate soil, with enough sand in it to
TUESDAY, AUGUST 12th, 1919
We will sell the fine Toon Powell Place at High Shoals, Georgia
This plantation consists of 752 acres. It is partly in the town of
High Shoals, a town of several hundred inhabitants, ami is traversed
by three highways, the lligi) Sholas and Monroe road, the Bust wick
road the Madison road. It has been cut into magnificent farms.
LOT NO. 1, contains 93 acres, and is the old home place; this fine
old home is on an elevation overlooking!he town ol High Shoals, sur
rounded by a fine grove of majestic oaks, has a large 7-room dwelling,
servant houses, garages, barns, and other outbuildings, and good ten
ant house. There is plenty of timber on the place to keep it up. It is
watered by branch and creek; tine pasfure; about halt ot the land is
gentlv rolling, the other hall practically level; it is in the fork of three
reads find tliS town of High Shoals is built up to the line of this tract.
A fine location for store, etc. i^War
LOT NO. 2, contains 07 acres, one tenant Jumse, water and pasture,
above two-thirds of this lot is level land, the balance gently rolling;
has sufficient wood on the led to keep it up. It is an extra lot.
LOT NO. 3, contains 40 acres, and this lot is forty acres of as fine
land as the State of Georgia can show. Every foot ot it, with the ex
ception of about one acre, is level. Upon it is located a very tine min
eral spring; about 10 acres ofthe land oil this lot is m cultivation, the
balance is pasture, timber and wood.
LOT. NO. 4, contains S3 acres, good 4-room tenant house, and is in
the forks of two main highways. All ot this is in cultivation except
about 12 acres of tine timber land. The entire tract is level and an ex
tra tine grade of land.
Remember to Attend This Sale Tuesday, August 12th. Sale Opens 11 o'clock Fast lime
We contracted to sell the three tracts of land above described the earl part ol this year, before the
advance in prices, and we do not expect to obtain for these different tracts anything more than a fair
and reasonable price. It may be the last opportunity the investor and the home seeker will have to
get land at the low price at which these places will sell at our sales. Sales conducted on a strictly
business basis by the
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TUESDAY, AUGUST sth, 1919
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barns on this tract is extra and is built according to the plans and
specifications given out by the Georgia State College of Agriculture;
this tract also has a very fine pasture, plenty of saw timber, branch
and creek bottoms, and the entire tract lies well. A beautiful spring
near the dwelling.
I.OT NO. 6, containing 52.39 acres, has an acre frontage on the Com
merce road; a magnifificent oak grove, making an ideal building site.
The land,on this lot with the exception of about 20 acres is rolling,
hut an extra fine grade of land, and about 20 acres of it is fine bottoms
and level upland.
. .LOT NO. 7, contains 68.37 acres, has one good tenant house, some
excellent branch and creek bottoms, and a field of about 30 acres of
very fine mulatto land, said by those who know to be the most produc
tive field on the plantation.
LOT NO. 8, contains 35 acres, two tenant houses, and is traversed by
Colts Mill road, and is very near the Commerce road. This is a rolling
lot but has plenty of wood and water and some level bottom land upon
which is about three acres of fine hay meadow; about eight acres of
this tract is dark mulatto.
All of these eight lots are within ten minutes drive of the City of
Athens, which affords a market for all kinds of products and land
around this city will steadily increase in value. Everybody knows that
Athens is the metropolis of northeast Georgia.
Wc will also sell at the same time and place a lot of land belonging
to <T. Brooks, located two miles of Center, adjoining lands of Sam
Wright, A. E. Williamson, and others, near church and school, on the
Athens and Carnesville road. This lot lias a good tenant house, very
line grade of land, water and timber.
make it easy to cultivate. On this tract is located about 75 acres of ex
tra tine timber that will saw from twenty to thirty thousand,feet per
acre.
A detailed description of each lot cannot be given as it nas not yet
been surveyed.— but remember the date of sale and watch for full
detailed advertisement.
Tuesday, August sth, on the grounds.
LOT NO. 5, contains 57 acres, has a wide frontage, nice, building
siles on the Madison Highway; about 25 acres of this tract is in culti
vation, fresh new ground, the balance is in fine timber and woodland,
a branch runs through it which affords pasturage.
LOTS NO. 3, 4 AND 5, are known as the “Fork Fjeld,” and the three
together are said to be the finest farm in that section.
LOT NO. 6, contains 72 1-2 acres, has pasturage and woodland suffi
cient to keep up place, and wide frontage on public road, and is well
watered; with the exception of about 10 acres this lot is level, with a
dark chocolate soil, the best grade of land.
LOT NO. 7, contains 84 1-2 acres; there is a fine spring on it, branch,
sufficient woodland and timber to keep it up. This entire lot is practi
cally a l<*yel field; no waste land.
LOT NO. 8, contains 158 acres, has two good tenant houses, beauti
ful road frontage, excellent building site. About halt of this tract is
rolling. hTe other is practically level, has some very fine branch and
river bottom land on it.
LOT NO. 9, contains 77 acres, has one good tenant house, good build
ing sites, something over half of this tract is level and the balance is
rolling; has about 10 acres of fine river bottom land and enough tim
ber on the place to keep it np.
LOT NO. 10, contains 20 acres, has a beautiful road frontage, and tine
building site on the road. Most of this lot is rolling land, but has tim
ber, pasture, well watered, and is a strong grade of land, and is partly
in the town of High Shoals.