The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-12-30
By the pre..dsnt Of the United stat.

TN pursuance Of of Congress, approved on the
the President Of the United States to sell the reserved min
teralands in the States of Illinois and Arkansas and Terri
j, JAMES K POLK, President Of the United States o.
America, do hereby declare and make known that pub
Territory oflowa, commencing on MONDAY, the eighth
day Of March next for the sale of the public lands hereto
mines therein, within the following townships and frac-
tionql townships, known the rich lead mine district
North Of the base ine and of the fifth principal meridian
Townships eghty-eight, eighty-nne and ninety, and
FRACTIONAL township nipety-one Of range one.
Township eighty and fractional townships eighty
nne ninety, and ninety one, of range two.
Township eighty and fractional townships eighty
eight and eighty nine, OF range three.
fractional townships eightyseven and lightweight, OF
Fractional township eighty seven, of range five.
North Of the base line and of the nth principal meridian
Township ninety and fractional township nney-one
Fractional townships nineyone ninety-two and ninety
thyee, of range two lss- p ~ 'Hs-'a .sS
Township ninety-two of range three ...a..
Lands appropriated BY law lSr the use of schools militia
~ and other purposes will be excluded from sale; also all
quarter quarter sections covered in whole part by
those mining leases which shall be determined by the
day fixed for the commencement OF these sales
above lands, until after they have been offered at public
sale and become subject to private entry and all Of such
covered and being worked, win be sold in such legal sub
division or subdivisions will include such mine mines,
The sale win be kept open Tor two weeks (anless the
lands disposed oi) and longer and private
offered will be admitted until after the expiration two
weeks from the commencement of said SALE
In further execution OF the said act, have caused the
Commissioner of the General Land Office publish with
this proclamation brief description of the mineral regions
In which these lands lie and OF the lands offered for
SALE which he has prepared from official documents and
other means of information. s-
Given under my hand at the city of Washington this
fifth day OF SEPTEMBER Domini one thousand
eight hundred and forty-six.
BY the President :" 80
jams H. PrrER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
The lands in the mineral regions embraced the above
proclamation Of the President of the United States
been dscoveed the yielding about eighty per cent OF
pure metal Copper also has been found this region
considerable quantities.
Great advantages said to exist for the manufacture OF
lead In various forms, particularly into shot the banks
being elevated require little expense in the
BE- manufactured into shot by the first smelling.
Tie location of these mines being the Mississippi
river affords great facilities of transportation the
cost OF which to ST. Louis is about fifteen per hundred
pounds The soil Is represented being unusually FERTILE
producing all the small grains in great abundance and fur
nfshfng excellent range for cattehus presenting equal in.
ducemens to the agricultirst and the miner.
The DuBuQuE mines in fractional townships eightyeipht
and ninety, of range east situated the
the Mississippi considered the important;
Of range one east, the in valuc and CATrE
mines in fractional township eghycigh of range three
east also on the river, the third Other mines have
been discovered In this regon and is very probable that
future explorations will bring light others rich and pro-
= ~ JAMES n PIPER.
o8 81 Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office.
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