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were burnt) and were in moderately good condition. 

Those burnt, I am informed, caught fire from the Rolling Mills, by accident.

The whole property (except the pig metal on hand) was offered for sale, and struck off to F S Lyon Esq. of Demopolis, for himself and others, at the price of Forty five thousand Dollars, that being the highest and best bid. During the sale Mr Huckable made a claim for the land on which the ore and timber privileges were sold, claiming it as his property, and stated that "every stick of timber cut on it would cost a lawsuit". He also stated that he and his associates claimed the whole property and would contest the title thereto. This I think may have prevented the property from selling at as high a price as it would otherwise have brought. The pig metal was sold to