The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-05
BY the President orthe United states.

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pursuance OF an act Of Congress- approved on
Il the eleventh day Of July, 1896 entitled "An act
TO authorize the President of the United States to
sell the reserved mineral lands in the States of ILL
nois and Arkansas, and Territories Of Wisconsin
and Iowa, supposed to contain lead ore l. JAMES
K. POLK, President of the United States Of Amer
lea, do hereby declare and make known, that pub
lie sale will be held at the land office at DUBUQUE
IN the Territory of Iowa, commencing on MON
DAY the eighth day Of March next for the sale of
the public lands heretofore withheld from sale on
account of the valuable lead mines therein, within
the following townships and fractional townships,
known as the rich lead mine district, to wit:
North Of the base line and cast Of The fifth principal
meridian
Townships lightweight, eighty-nine, and ninety,
| and fractional township ninety-one, of range one.
township lightweight, and fractional townships
eghty-nine, ninety, and ninety-one, of range two.
Township eighty seven, and fractional townships
eighty-elght and eighty-nine, of range three.
fractional townships eighty-seven and eighty
eight, of range four.
Fractional township eighty seven, of range five.
North Of the base line and ,csst of the fifth principal
meridian.
Township ninety, and fractional township ninety
one, of range one.
Fractional townships ninety-one, ninety two, and
ninety -three, Of range two.
Township ninety-two, of range three.
Lands appropriated by law for the use of schools,
military and other purposes, will be excluded from
sale; 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 these sales
Presumption claims will not be allowed TO any of
the above lands, until after they have been offered at
public sale, and become subject to private entry; and
all ofsuch lands as 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 mines, at not less than two
dollars and fifty cents per acre.
The sale will be kept open for two weeks (unless
the lands are sooner disposed of) and no longer;
and no private entries of land in the townships and
fractional townships offered will be admitted I'M
I'll after the expiration of two weeks from the COM
mencemen of said sale.
In further execution Of the 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. ...
Given under my hand at the city of Washington,
this fifth day of September, ammo Domini one
thousand eight hundred and forty.six
JAMES X. POLK.
BY the President:
JAMES III. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
ine idius III tne mineral regions, embraced IN the
above proclamation of the President of the United
Satesi are believed to contain the richest mines Of
lead that have yet been discovered; the ore yield
ing about eighty per cent. of pure metal Copper
also, has been found in this region in considerable
quantities.
Great advantages are said to exist for the manu-
facture Of lead in various forms, particularly into
shot, the river banks being elevated as TO require
little or no expense in the erection Of towers; and
the ore, from its great purity, may be manufactured
into shot by the first smelling,
q The location Of these mines being near the Mis-
sissipp river affords great facilities of transporta-
ton, the average cost of which to ST. Louis is about
fifteen cents per hundred pounds. The soil is rep
resented being unusually fertile, producing all the
small grains in great abundance and furnishing ex-
ceient range for cattle--thus presenting equal in
ducements to the agricuturist and the miner.
The DUBUQUE mines in fractional townships eigh-
ty-eight, eghty-nine, and ninety Of range two east
situated on the banks of the Mississippi are consd-
cred the most Important the DuRkNGo mines in
townships eighty-nine and ninety, of range one east
are the next in value; and the CATTEsE mines in
fractional township eighty-eght Of range three east
also on the river, the third. Other mines have
been discovered in this region and it is very proba-
hle that future explorations will bring to light others
"a rich and productive any now known.
JAMES n. PIPER.
Acting Commissioner Of the General Bsnd Office
Sept 5, lSi6--Iawts