212 Documents Elisha A. Packer, 1885

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ARTICLES   OP    AGREEMENT made  and entered into
this  ninth day  of February A.D.   One  thousand eight hundred and
eighty-five(1885),  between ELISHA A.  PACKER of the City of New
York, party of the  first part,   and THE SILVER BROOK COAL COMPANY.
a corporation formed under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania,
party of the  second part,-
W I T N E S S E T
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I.
That the 3aid party of the first part for and in consideration
of the rents or several sums of money to he paid and the covenants
and agreements to he kept and performed on the part of the said
party of the second part, and hereinafter more particularly set
forth, has and hereby does demise, grant and let unto the said party of the second part, the exclusive right and privilege for the
term of thirty-five (35) years from February first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five (1885), until the first day of February, nineteen hundred ad twenty(1920), to dig, mine, prepare and take away
fossil or mineral coal wholly at their own cost and expense, and
for their own use and benefit, in and from all the beds or veins of
coal in and on all the tracts or parcels of land belonging to the
said party of the first part as per map hereto attached, and described as follows:-
BEGINNING at stones the North West corner of the William Kel -
vey and in the East line of the Paul Baulty tract; thence by said
Baulty tract North thirty degrees fifteen minutes West three thousand seven hundred and'eight f§et to stones the North East corner
of BaulJ^ and a corner of Martin Diehl tract, thence by said I>iehl
tractAfour degrees thirty minutes West two htondred and fifteen feet
to a pine; thence North eighty-three degrees forty minutes East,
nine thousand five hundred and thirty feet to stones in the East line
of the Christian Kunkle tract, thence by said Kunkle tract South
six degrees thirty minutes East, six hundred and three feet to
stones, corner of Kunkle, Daniel Hurley and William M*Adams tracts,
thence by said M'Adams and aforesaid Kelvey tracts, South sixty-
three degrees eighteen minutes West, eight thousand five hundred and
seventy feet to the place of beginning- CONTAINING Four hundred and
fifty three Acres and One hundred and thirteen perches strict measure; the said lands being SITUATE partly in Kline Township, (formerly Rush Township), Schuylkill County, and partly in Lausanne
Township, Carbon County, and State of Pennsylvania, and known as
the "Andrew Grove" tract, more particularly described in a deed
from the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company to the said Elisha A. Packer, party of the first part hereto, dated January thirty-first,A.D.
1885, and recorded in the office for Recording Deeds, &c, in and
for Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book No. 178, page
263, and in the office for Recording Deeds &c, in and for Carbon
County, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book No. 30, page 13 &c.
II.
And the said party of the first part hereby further demises,
grants and lets unto the said party of the second part all of the
surface of the above described property, as well as the exclusive
right and privilege of cutting and taking away trees and timber
from, and depositing dirt, slate and coal upon the above described
tracts or pieees of land.  The said timber and trees to be used
only for their mining purposes on said tracts or pieces of land,
including erection of breakers, machinery and fixtures for mining
and taking coal from the said land and preparing it for market,
and the necessary buildings for houses, breakers, slopes, &c. And
the said party of the second part shall take, hold and enjoy the
privileges hereby granted and subtest to the following covenants,
terms, payments, reservations, conditions, restrictions, and regulations, to wit:-