The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-10-07

sections hirty-iDO 10 tiri-sir, inclusive of town.
ship eleven; sections 10 fUs inclusive, and sec
tons eight 10 toeips inclusive in township twelve of
range seven
hosnirt1O inclusive, and sections hoeniu fre to iT-
i-sir inclusive, Of township eleven, sections one,
hoo, three, the north half and southeast quarter OF
section four sections flee TO eleven inclusive; the
southwest quarter OF section ipers; the north half
OF section fourteen and sections fifteen TO eighteen in
elusive, ia township Twelve, of range nine
Lands appropriated by law for the use of schools,
military, or 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.
Presumption claims will not he allowed 10 any OF
the above lands until after the same shall have been
offered at the public sale aud become subject to pri-
yaie entry; and all of such lands as contain a 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 at
not less than two dollars and fifty per acre.
The sales will each lie kept open for two weeks,
lunless the lands are sooner disposed of, aud no
longer; and no private entries of land in the town
SHIPS and fractional townships offered will be adj
mlIled until after the expiration of two weeks from
the commencement Of said sales.
In further execution ofthe said act have caused
the Commissioner Of the General Land Office TO
publish with this proclamation a 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.
Giyea under my hand at the city Of Washington,
this eighth day Of September ammo Domini one
thousand eight hundred and Corty-six
| By the President ~
JAMES Ii. PIPER,
Acung Commissioner the General Land Office
The lands in the DIXON district, embraced in the
above proclamation of the President Of the United
States, were explored by Mr. Owen the geologist of
the State Of Indiana, under instructions from the
Treasury Department, and in compliance with a
resolution Of the 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-
vaons during his survey, there is reason TO believe
that.yaluAble veins Of ore may readily be found
Further, that IN 1889 the lead mines Of Illinois,
Iowa, and Wisconsin, though only partially worked
produced upwards Of thirty millions pounds of lead
those Of Illinois yielding their full proportion-and
that the whole district, II properly mined, would
yield one hundred and fifty millions pounds per
annum.
These lands being situated on and near the Mis-
slssippi and Fever rivers the cost of Transporting
inc PtouucS OF uem 70 81 LOUIS IL only about If
teen cents per hundred pounds. The soil is Of ex-
eellent 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,b made, however of rich
veins Of the suphuret oflead and zinc contiguous to
and on both sides Of these lands indicating the ex-
lsence 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 seven miles of the Ohio river
the metal, in any form, be transported to all the
principal markets at uiAing cost.
JAMES III. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner Of the General Land Office.
September 6-lawts