San Mateo County Gazette Redwood City, San Mateo County, California Saturday Morning, August 27, 1859, Vol. 1 No. 21 LOCAL REFERENCE - There is now a greater amount of lumber on the wharves at this place, and in greater variety, so we are informed by the older residents, than has ever before been known. Rough lumber of all kinds, shingles, posts, rails, firewood, etc., continue to arrive in large quantities from the mills and lumbermen in the mountains, and are being daily shipped off to San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton, Benica, Napa and other interior ports, at low prices. Upon the bank of the creek, in Redwood City, is a lot of over five hundred cords of oak firewood, in a single pile. A poor insane man, unknown, and coming from no one knew whither, was last week taken, by Coroner McCLURE, to the Asylum at Stockton, by the order of the County Judge. He gave his name as George MORDAUNT. The fine new store of J.V. DILLER, we observe, is being handsomely fitted up, and will soon be filled with goods. We think the entire store, in all its appointments, will compare favorably with any in California. As a citizen of this county, we feel proud of it. C. LIVINGSTON's new brick store has become the repository of the goods of that merchant. The old one, which is, by the way, the oldest house in town save one, is being repaired. W.C.R. SMITH's large brick warehouse, we are glad to see is, although not yet finished, already half full of produce on storage. The large schooner on the stocks at this place, is being caulked, and is otherwise progressing towards completion. Quite a large fleet of vessels may almost any day be seen in these waters. Among them we noticed last week the new schooner lately built at the San Mateo embarcadero; she is a fine vessel. The courthouse has undergone a bath of coloring matter, which appears to have given it the blues. CHEW & HILTON are building a large brick house, (26 by 72) in which to pursue their business of wagon-making and blacksmithing. The firm is doing well, and deserve to. Geo. HELLER last week commenced the erection of a new stable on Main street, 32 and 60 feet, the old one, as he informs us, being insufficient, in size for his present business. ** SHERIFF'S SALE - By virtue of an Execution issued out of the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, County of San Mateo, in the action of Titus WEBB, vs. A.F.C. ENGERT, duly attested the 13th day of August, A.D. 1859, I have levied on the following describe property, to wit: All that certain lot, piece or tract of land situated in the County of San Mateo, and bounded and described as follows, viz; Commencing at a point on the westerly side of the County Road leading from San Francisco to San Jose, three hundred feet (300 fts) from the southerly bank of Cardillas Creek, thence following said County Road South forty-two degrees and three quarters East, (S. 42 ¾ E) twenty-two chains and sixty-nine links, (22 69) to the northerly side of a road one chain in width, which divides the said tract of land from the lands of William Carey JONES, thence along the northerly side of said road, South forty four degrees and a half west, (S. 441/2 W.) seventy seven chains and sixty links (77 60) to a post indicating the south-east corner of said tract; then north forty-five degrees and a half West, (N. 45 ½ W.) twenty-five chains (25) to the southerly bank of Cardillas Creek from which point two oak trees marked X are respectively situated, as follows, viz: S. 0 degrees 42' E thirty-three links (33) and S. 661/4 degrees E. 138 one hundred and thirty-sight links, thence northerly and easterly along the bank of Cardillas Creek, fifty-three chains and thirty-seven links (53 37) to a post indicating the south-west corner of the land now or recently owned by George THATCHER, Jr., and Charles LIVINGSTON, from whence an oak tree marked thus X bear south five and one quarter degrees West, (S. 5 ¼ W.) thirty-three links, thence along the land of said George THATCHER, Jr., and Charles LIVINGSTON, South, forty-five and a half degrees East, (S. 45 ½ E.) five chains and eleven links, (5.11) to a post forming the southeast corner of the tract owned by said Chs. LIVINGSTON and George THATCHER, Jr., from whence an oak tree marked thus X bears South forty-two and one-fourth degrees West, (S. 42 ¼ W) sixty-five links (65) thence along the land of the said George THATCHER, Jr., and Chs. LIVINGSTON, north thirty-five and a quarter degrees East, (N. 35 ½ E) twenty chains and twenty-eight links (20, 28) to a large oak tree, thence North thirty four degrees and a-half East, (34 ½ E) eleven chains and thirty links (11,30) to the place of beginning, the bearing above being expressed by the true meridian, the magnetic variation being fifteen degree seventeen minutes East, (15 degrees 17' E), containing, on the said tract of land, as above described, one hundred and sixty acres and sixty-three one-hundredths (160 63-100_ in superficies, being part and portion of the tract called the "Rancho de las Pulgas", and the same property surveyed by W.W.O. DWYER, for which his certificate was given, dated July 27th, A.D. 1853, and is of record in the office of the Recorder of the County of San Francisco, in the Liber 1 of Maps, p. 48. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Thursday, the Eighth day of September, A.D. 1859, at 12 o'clock, noon, at the Courthouse doors, Redwood City, I will sell all the right, title and interest of said A.F.C. ENGERT, in and to the above described property, at Public Auction, to the highest and best bidder for cash. JOHN W. ACKERSON Sheriff of San Mateo County To see other old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php