The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-12

sections hirirh1O TO hiriy-sir, inclusive of town
ship eleyeni sections oae 10 fpe inclusive and sec
tons sighi TO osIss inclusive IN township twelve, OF
range seven. rH Er..-a..F t-.# - a. ri.
Sections three to nine inclusive, sections lssn to
tcefiyfioo inclusive, and sections oenif ps TO ihir
trsir inclusive, Of township eleven; sections on4
hoo, hrss, The north half and southeast quarter OF
section four; sections fpe 10 eleven Inclusive the
southw quarter Of section cslrsj the north half
OF section Jourissn and sections fifteen to eighteen n-
elusive, in township twelve, of range nine.
Lands appropriated by law for the use Of schools,
military, OF 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. -
Prescription claims will not be allowed to any of
the above lands until AFTER the same shall have been
offered at the public sale and become subject to Pm
sate ehtryi and all OF such lands contain mine
or mines Of lead ore, actually discovered and being
worked, will be sold in such legal subdivision or
subdivisions as will include such mine or mines al
not less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre.
The sales will each lie kept open for two weeks,
lunless the lands sooner disposed Of and no
longer and no private entries of land in the town
sh'Psand fractional townships offered will be sd-
united until after the expiration Of two weeks from
the commencement Of said sales. t"- .
In further execution ofthe said act have caused
the Commissioner OF the General Land Office to
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. .. ..t .....
Giyea under my hand at the city Of Washington,
this eighth day Of September, ammo Domini, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-six
JAMES. X. POLK.
By the President: .0 IITT6H ~
JAMES II. PPER, '"I #8.
Acting Commissioner Of the General Land Office
The lands 10 the DIXON district, embraced in the
above proclamation Of the President Of the United
States, were explored by Mr.. Owen The geologst OF
the State OF Indiana, under instructions from the
Treasury Department. and in compliance with a
resolution ofthe House Of Representatives, passed
9th February 1889. The able report Of this gentle
man, published as document No. 239 House OF
Representatives, first session Of 26th Congress,
shows that these lands include all the productive
mines and the entire region in which, from obser-
yaIlons during his survey, there is believe
that. valuable veins OF ore may readily be found.
Further, that in 1889 the lead mines Of IIlinois,
Iowa, and Wisconsin, though only partially worked,
produced upwards OF thirty millions pounds of lead
those OF Illinois yielding their full proporton-and
that the whole district, if properly mined, would
yield one hundred and fifty millions pounds per
annum.
These lands being situated on and near the Mis-
slsGPPl and Fever rivers, the cost of Transporting
the products Of them TO St Louis is only about hl-
teen cents per hundred pounds. The soil is Of ex-
eelent quality, and yields abundantly all the prod
ucts OF that latitude.
The lands in The sHAWNEEToWN district
have not been explored fully as those in Dixon.
Recent discoveries have been made, however of rich
veins of the suphuret oflead and zinc contiguous TO
and on both sides Of these lands indicating the ex-
lstenee Of similar deposes within them The
facilities for manufacturing white and red lead are
represented as being ample; and as the lands are
situated within about miles of the Ohio river,
the metal IN any form, be transported to all the
principal markets at lrfng cost.
JAMES III. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
September S-lawts