The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1840-12-04


TILE Aii tl1 u llDs OF THE UNITED
STATES.
he disposal Of our public lands has ever
Nan great subject ith DIT leading states
men They formed bone 81 contention n
our revolutionary struggle; and Al length
were all ceded 70 HE United States, FOR the
public good. Grealin Importance as these
from the first have been considered, recent
explorations 81 them have increased their
Importance al hundred fold
Though much has been written and spoz-
en upon lheir adaptation to population ID POI
pulalion, yef but little, comparatively speak
Ing, has been done ia reference 70 tie vast
stoIes ofmineIa wealth thai he below their
sale, have been made chiefly By unskilful
surveyors; BY men not acquitted with tho
geological appearances they present; and
ihC' large reservations have been made, Il
times, IF districts supposed to contain Valu-
able mines, the consequ ences has been, that
muchof The public land has been disposed
OflOr aEnere tribe.
Atlsngth, Congress passed resolution,
il 1888 g, calling upon che President for 4
plan for The sale Of the public mineral lands
f0I information relative "a their value and
authorizing him 70 cause such surveys to BE-
made, as would enable him to act. Dr. Ro-
bert Dale Gwen was accordingly appointed
al agent 70 explore The mineral lands. He
was instructed % survey The district between
latitude torSy.One and iorty-thrse degrees
commencing 1t The mouth oi Rock river, and
extending one hundred miles, to Wisconsin
riker about eleven thousand square miles
Olterrit0ry. The result Is d vast importance
tie district be has explored, he pronounces
saws The Democratic Review, from which
We have taken these facts, zone Of the
richest mineral regions, compared % ifs ex-
lent ret known III tha world.
From reports collected from Dr. Owen,
lron the SHELTERS, L IS asceElained that the
lead mines produce, even now, nearly as
much lead W. the whole of Europe produces,
with The exception Of Great Britain and that
II can produce as much as all Europe, Great
Britain included The shelters furnished
Or Owen with facts concerning the produce
bfthe mines. Two men have raised twenty
thousand pounds day Of Ore from tie rich-
est veins; three million pounds Of ore have
been raised from spot Of ground not more
than ffty yards square ii one place, . lode
excavated horizontally only one hundred and
fifty yards, yielded million pounds Of ore I;
ii another place, ten million pounds were
raised from single lode ID another, he met
two boys, IL and fourteen years old, who
had earned 150in SIX months, and were
still complaining they had 'sno luck" ia not
striking productive lode Such are Tie
specimens W lhe kind of information coIIec.
ted il ibis survey But ia addition to these
statistical facts, other information, Of an high
N interesting character Is embraced ID the
able report Dr. Owen has made Of his labors.
ae has instituted careful comparison Be-
tween shs appearances ~ These regions,such
us The celebrated Cross fell country where
are The Cornwall mines and where %, 900
tons ii lead ara annually produced Tile
resemblance of TIC Wisconsin lead rspion
and That of the Cross Fell region, s'is close
andslriking
buf lead ore is not fhe cnly ore that Is
found IA great quantities ibis - buka POI.
Non oflhe mineral wealth Of shis region. ii
proved ihal 'ithe copper pIe of Wisconsin
Is richer md moro valuable than that So Corn.
wan the greatest copper dIslfcsin Europe
Qt lhe world exceeding thal 1rs lnilr yield
bY from one fifteenth 1 one lbili nd ihat
his found In abundance and San Be
faissa ~ lhe ne expense on ihe
iana ee NncoI frequently occur - lhe