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Fox Film Corporation Buys Old Fort—Railroads Secure Right of Ways The Fort Montgomery military res ervation, including the massive fort fication known as “Fort Blunder,”, was sold at auction by the War Depart ment last Thursday for $45,482. The fort won its title of “Fort Blunder by reason of the fact, that owing to a mistake on the part of the surveyors who established the boundary lne be tween the United States and Canada in 1814, it was placed on British soil, which was ceded to the United States under Webster Ashburton treaty many years later . The reservation, which comprised a total of 563 acres of land, was sold in five separate parcels. The Dela ware and Hudson Railroad paid $1,655 for one parcel which included a right of way, and the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, a branch of the Grand Trunk, bought another right of way parcel for $827. The other three parcels, including the fort itself, were purchased by Hyman Dickstein, 280 Broadway, New York City, for a total of 318,000. Mr. Dickstein represented the Fox Film Corporation, a motion picture concern of New York. A Mr. Simpson, said to represent the Universal Film Cor poration, was a heavy bidder but stop ped within $300 of the price paid by the Fox organization.
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The Adirondack Record - Elizabethtown Post
Au Sable Forks, New York, US
Thu, Sep 23, 1926
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