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Subject: [PA-Perry] Newspaper notice of the sale of Merchant & Saw Mill; Madison Twp.
Date: 15 Jul 2003 03:43:04 -0600

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Surnames: TROSTLE, BORRELL, ADAIR, ARNOLD, ESPY
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(Newspaper article obtained from the TROSTLE file at the Perry Historians Library; c. Sep 1884)

A RARE CHANCE!
PUBLIC SALE OF A BRICK MERCHANT MILL AND SAW MILL

The subscribers will expose to sale, by public outcry, onthe premises at 10 o'clock a.m. on WEDNESDAY, the 19th day of OCTOBER, 1884, all that valuable lot of ground situate in Madison Township, Perry County; containing TWENTY ACRES of land, adjoining lands of Wm. and Jas. Adair, John P. Arnold, the limestone farms of Josiah Espy and others, having thereon erected a new three and a half story Brick
Merchant and Grist Mill,
45 by 55 feet, with an excellent and unfailing water power having
TWO PAIRS OF FRENCH FLOURING BURRS
and one pair Chopping Burrs with Corn-Crusher attached; also place and gearing for one more pair of Burrs.

There are TWO NEW WATER-WHEELS--overshot---10 feet high and 10 feet wide or 13 feet head and fall.
There is ONE IMPROVED MERCHANT BOLT with hopper-boy, &c., complete, and ONE COUNTRY BOLT, A SMUT MACHINE, SELF ACTING PACKER, PRESS &c., with all the necessary machingery in a No. 1, Merchant Mill. Also, 2 pair of scales. The gearing in the mill is new and of the most superior character.

NEW SAW MILL 17 BY 49 FEET, two story high, weatherboarded, with an over-shot water wheel, 10 feet high and 10 feet wide, double-geared, with one upright saw and two Circular Saws; also a railraod and log car to draw in logs and run out lumber.

THE WATER POWER
is Sherman's Creek and confined by a new dam only built one year ago. The Mills are situated on the south side of the creek, about one-eighth of a mile from the great public road passing east and west through the county.
There has been erected during the present summer a new county bridge over the creek 150 feet span, weatherboarded and covered, thus rendering access to the mill very easy in all seasons.
These Mills are situated in one of the richest agricultural settlements, and are extensively patronized by the farmers. Persons wishing to buy more land, can purchase the farm adjoining, and which was originally part of this. There is a good DWELLING HOUSE, Stable, Corn Crib, Hog pen and other improvemetns on the premises. Persons desirous of buying, are invited to examine this property.
One of the proprietors of the Mills, who is the Miller, desires to quit the business as his health will not permit him to continue it any longer, and therefore they desire to sell. The purchaser can have possession on the 1st of December or 1st April, as may be desirable.
Terms will be made easy,and information given by
ANDREW TROSTLE,
Wm. H. BORRELL.
Centre P.O., Sept. 21, 1884

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