The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-10-06


sections Bbiy-tSo TO naiyty-sir, inclusive Of town
ship eleven; sections one 10 fps inclusive, and see
tons eight 10 soelue inclusive IN township twelve Of
range seven, . ..
Sections three to nine inclusive, sections 6Jissa TO
ii0entt0o inclusive, and sections irsmiy. rs 10 lhiT
iy-sir Inclusive, of township eleven; sections ons
hoo, three, the north half and southeast quarter Of
section four; sections fire 70 slepsn inclusive; the
south west quarter of section icsire; the north half
OF section fourteen, and sections tssn eighteen in
elusive, in 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.
Prescription claims will not be allowed 10 any Of
the above lands until after the shall have been
offered at the public sale and become subject TO pr-
vaIe entry; and all Of such lands as contain mine
or mines OF lead ORE actually discovered and being
worked, will be sold IN such legal subdivision OF
subdivisions as will include such mine or mines at
not less Than two dollars and fifty cents per acre.
The sales will each he kept open for two weeks,
(unless the lands are sooner disposed off, and no
longer and no private entries Of land in the town
ships and fractional townships offered will be adj
United 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 20
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 eighth day of September, ammo Domini, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
BY the PRESIDENT
JAMES IL. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner OF 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 geologisi Of
the State Of Indiana, under instructions from the
Treasury Department, and in compliance with a
resolution Of the House Of Representative passed
9th February, 1889. The able report Of this gentle
man, published as document No. 239, House OF
Representatives, first session of 26lh Congress,
shows that these lands include all the productive
mines and the entire region in which, from obser-
Vauons during his survey, there is 10 believe
thai. valuable VEINS Of ore may readily be found.
Further, that in 1889, the lead mines Of IlliGos,
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, if properly mined would
yield one hundred and ffly millions pounds per
annum.
These lands being situated on and near the Mis-
sissippi and Fever rivers the cost of Transporting
the products OF them to St. Louis is only about If
teen cents per hundred pounds. The soil is of ex-
celent quality, and yields abundantly all the prod
ucts of that latitude
The lands in the sHAWNEEToWN district
have not been explored as fully a, those in Dixon.
Recent discoveries have been made, however of rich
veins of the suphuret PLEAD and zinc contiguous to
and on both sides of these lands, indicating the ex-
istence Of similar deposites within them. The
facilities for manufacturing white and red lead are
represented as being ample; and as the lands are
situated within about miles of the Ohio river
the metal in any form, can be transported to all the
principal markets at trifiug cost.
JAMES III. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner Of the General Land Office
September S-lawts