The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-12-29
BY the pre.,dsnt of the United state.

In pursuance of of Congress, approved on the
the President Of the United States sell the reserved
teannds in States of Illinois and Arkansas and Terri
l. JAMES X. PoLK, President Of the United States Of
America, do hereby declare and make known that pub
lie will be held the land Office at DUBUQUE, In the
Territory of Iowa, commencing on MONDAY the eighth
day March next for the sale of the public lands hereto
mines the ren within the following townships and frnc-
tionnl townships known the nch lead mine district,
to wits
North of s base line and Of the Gfh principal meridian
Townships eightyeight, eighty-nne, and ninety, and
FRACTIONAL township ninety-ons, OF range one.
Township eighty eight and fractional townships eighty
nine, ninety, and ninety-one OF range two. ,
eight and eighty mine, OF range three. -.
Fractonal townships eightys and lightweight OF
fractional township eighty-seven, of range five.
North of the base line and Of the fifth principal meridian
Township ninety, and fractional township nnety-one of
Fractional townships nneyone ninetytwo and ninety
three, of range two. .
Lands aPpropriaed by law for the use of schools militia
ny, and other purposes viii be excluded from sae also all
those mining which shall be determined by the
day fixed for the commencement OF these sales
Presumption claims will be allowed to any of the
above lands until after they have been offered public
sale, and become subject to private entry and all Of such
and being worked, will be sold in such legal sub
division subdivisions will include such mine mines,
The sale viii be kept open Tor two weeks (uness the
lands disposed o and no longer; and private
offered will be admitted until after the expiration Of two
weeks from the commencement of said sale.
In further execution of the said 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 offered for
SALE which he has prepared from official documents and
other means Of information. ..l.s.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington, this
fifth day Of September, ammo Domini, thousand
eight hundred and forty-six. . - .-...-
BY the President
JAMES II. PIPER,
-aaig Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
The lands in the mineral regions embraced in the above
proclamation of the President of the United Sates be-
been discovered the yielding about eighty per cent OF
pure metal Copper also has been found in this region in
considerable quantities. ~ ...a
Great advantages said exist for the manufacture
erd IN various FORMS particularly into shot, the river banks
being elevated require little expense in the
erection Of towers and the from its purity
be manufactured into shot by the first smelling.
The location Of these mines being the Mississippi
river affords great facilities of transportation the
which TO ST. Louis is about fifteen cents per hundred
producing all the small grains in great abundance, and fur
nishng excellent range for caehus presenting equal in
dncements to the agrcuturist and the miner. ~.
The DUBUQUE mines in fractional townships lightweight
eghtynne and ninety OF range two east situated the
banks OF the Mississippi, considered the important
the DURANGO mines in townships eightynine and ninety
Of range east the in value; and the CATTEsE
mines In fractional township eighty of range three
east, also the river the third. Other mines have
been discovered in this region; and it very probable that
future explorations will bring light others rich and
ductive as any now known. -.---.-.. ..r =
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office,
Sept g. I846-law Paw