The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-10-13

sections hrtyioo TO thiyiy-sir inclusive Of town
ship eleyen sections 10 fps inclusive and sec
lions sshi to i'0sios inclusive in township twelve Of
| range seven.
Sections auss to nine inclusive, sections 6tlssm TO
isosnttioo inclusive and sections toeni-tpe TO iir-
ty-siI inclusive, OF township eleven; sections one
hoo, three, the north half and southeast quarter OF
section four sections fUe 10 eleven inclusive; the
southwest quarter of section itoeius; the north hal
OF section fourteen, and sections fifteen 70 sghissa in
elusive, in township twelve, of range nine.
Lands appropriated by law for the use of schools
military, or other purposes, will be excluded from
The sales also all quarter quarter sections covered
IN whole or in part by those mining leases which
shall not be determined by the day fixed for the
commencement Of the sales.
Presumption claims will not be allowed 10 any o.
the above lands until after the same shall have beer
offered at the public sale and become subject to pr
Vale entry; and all OF such lands contain mine
or mines OF lead ore, actually discovered and being
worked, Will be sold in such legal subdivision OF
SUBDIVISIONS as will include such mine or mines al
not less than two dollars and fifty Genus per acre.
The sales will each lie kept open for two weeks
Sunless the lands are sooner disposed of and nc
longer and no private entries Of land Ia the town
ships and fractional townships SO offered will be ad
United until after the expiration Of two weeks from
the commencement Of said sales.
In further execution of the said act have caused
the Commissioner Of the General Land Office "a
publish with this proclamation brief description Of
the mineral regions in which these lands lie and OF
the lands now offered for sale, which he has pre-.
pared from official documents and other means Of
information.
Gives under my hand at the city Of Washington
this eighth day of September, ammo Domini, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-sH.
JAMES. X. POLK.
By the President
JAMES Ia. PIrER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
The lands in the DIXON district, embraced in IN,
above proclamation Of the President Of the United
States, were explored by Mr.. Owen the geologist Of
the State Of Indiana, under instructions from the
Treasury Department, and in compliance with q
resolution ofIhe House Of Representatives, passed
9th February, 1889. The able report Of this gentle
man, published document No. 239, House Of
Representatives, first session Of 26th Congress
shows that these lands include oil the productive,
mines, and the entire region in which, from obser
yaons during his survey, there is reason to believe
that. available veins OF ore may readily be found
Further, that in 1899, the lead mines Of Illinois
Iowa, and Wisconsin, though only partially worked
produced upwards Of thirty millions pounds of lead
those Of Illinois yielding their full proportion-and
that the whole district, IL properly mined, would
yield one hundred and fifty millions pounds pei
annum.
These lands being situated on and near the Mis-
sssipPi and Fever rivers, the cost Of Transporting
the products Of them To St, Louis is only about a.
teen cents per hundred pounds. The soil is Of ex
cellent quality, and yields abundanuy all the prod
ucts Of that latitude.
The lands in the sEIAWNEEToWN districi
have not been explored as fully a. those in Dixon
Recent discoveries have been made, however of rich
veins Of the suphure PLEAD and zinc, contiguous Il
and on both sides OF these lands indicating the ex
lstence Of similar deposites within them. The
facilities for manufacturing white and red lead ar,
represented as being ample; and as the lands ar,
situated within about seven miles of the Ohio river
the metal, in any form, be transported to all th,
principal markets at trifing cost
JAMES II. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
September S-lawts