The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-12-14

pursuance of an act of Congress- approved on the elev-
President Of the United sell the reserved mineral
lands in the States of Illinois and Arkansas and Terri
ore" JAMES K POLK, President of the United States
Of Amerca do hereby declare and make known that pub
ILLINOIS. account of Die ratuabte lead therein will
be held the aforementioned land Offices in said State,
At the land Office at DIXON, commencing m on MONDAY
the fifth day Of April next for the disposal of the public
lands within the following townships and fractional town.
ships, viz
North of the base line and cast of the fourth principal "
Fractional townships twenty-seven, tweny-eigh and
twenty-nine, of range one.
Townships tweny-seven and twenty-egh and fractional
township tweny-nne, OF range two.
Townships tweny-seven and twenty-eght and fractional
township twenty-nine of range three
The north half of township twentyseven, township twen
weight and fractional township twenty OF range four
Worth of the base line and ''s est, Of the fourth principal ~
Fractional townships twentyscven, tweniy-eght, and
wenty-nine, of range
Fractional townships wentyeight and tweny-nne, of
Al the land office at sHAwNEEToWN, commencing on
MONDAY the nineteenth day of April next Tor the disposal
Of the public lands within the following sections, and parts
Of sections viz:
Sections t,centy-t,ro trcentynie inclusive, and
tons hr gt,co to Htysr inclusive, of township eleven
sections fire inclusive, and sections eight to t'c in
elusive in township twelve, of range seven
Sections three to hin inclusive, sections fifteen to fUenfy
Of township eleven; sections one f"o three, the north half
and southeast quarter of section four sections fire to euen
inclusive; the southwest quarter oil section cere the norm
half OF section fotsca and sections fifteen eighteen nclu
slve, in township twelve, OF range nine.
y other purposes viii be excluded from the saes 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 to any of the
above lands until after the shall have been offered at
The public sale and become subject to private eny and
all OF such lands as contain mine or mines OF lead ore
legal subdivision subdivisions viii include such mine
or Mines at not less than two dollars and fifty cents per
The sales will each be kept open for weeks (unless
The lands disposed Off and longer; and no pr-
ships 50 offered will be admitted until after the expiration
TWO week from the commencement Of said sales.
Commissioner of the General Land Office publish with
ms Proclamation brief description of the mineral regions
sac which he has prepared from official documents and
other means Of information.
yen under my hand al the city of Washington, this
eighth dry Of September, ammo Domini thousand eight
hundred and forty-six
BY the President
JAMES H. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office.
The nnd in the DIXON district embraced in the above
explored by Mr. Owen the geoogist of the STATE Indiana,
ndfr inStruciions from the Treasury Department, and
lives passed 9Th February 1899 The able report of this
gnteman published as document No. 239, House of Rep
S"naves, first session OF 18th Congress- shows that these
lands include all the productive mines, and the entire
Eon IN which, from observations during his survey, there
DeileVe that valuable oil may readily
be found Further that in 1899, the lead mines Of Illinois,
iowa and Wisconsin, though only partially worked, pro.
1Wred upwards of thirty million pounds OF leadhosc Of
Ilnois yielding their full proportionand that the whole
district, properly mined, would yield hundred and
MY million pounds per annum
These lands being situated and the Mississippi
ana Fever rivers the of transporting the products of
uem to St. Louis is only about fifteen cents per hundred
pounds The soil of excellent quality, and yields abund
anty all the products Of that latitude.
The lands in the SliAWNEETOWN district have not
neen explored as fully those in Dixon. Recent dscov
m nave been made however, of rich veins OF the s9Phu
e Of lead and zinc contiguous to- and both sides of,
neSe lands, indicating the existence of similar depostes
Wt3n them. The facilities for manufacturing white and
REQ lead are represented being ample and the lands
are situated within about miles of the Ohio river,
nG metal in any form, can be transported all the princi
pal markets at trihng
JAMES IT. PIPER,
@ Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
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