Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-01-28

NJ IN pursuance of OF Congress approved the
the Of United States sell lands
iaad supposed to contain lead ore" JAMES X. POLK
President of the United States Of America 10 hereby deca and
SALE in the State Of ILLINOIS on or 1anua
THEREIN will held
Offices in said State the periods hereinafter designated to-wit
At the Land Office DIXON, commencing Monday, the fifth
S AP o5 and hs U s SO within the
North Of The base line and east Of the fourth principal meridian
Townships and twentycight and fractional
Townships twenyse7en twenty eight
The north township township twentYeght
@ q &c base ile and @ tie sria pyissipat meridian
Fractional townships t@entyseSen, twentyegh and twenty
e ss saG Sss e o
day. the nineteenth day of April for the disposal of the public
lands within the following sections and parts Of sections Wis
sections thirty
re inclusive and sections eight to tUeIs inclusive in township
Sections three nine inclusive fifteen turenpo
elusive and sections Datyes to sr nclusyeof township
section tours sections fee to een ncusive the southwest quar-
ter Of section t0ee the north half Of section fourteen and
nine ''' Inclusive - ~ "-''"P '"e'e' VI '"'s'
Lands appropriated by for use of schools military
quarter sections covered in whole or in part by those mining
leases which shall not be determined by the day fixed the
mencement Of the sales
Presumption claims will not be allowed TO any of the above lands
become subject private entry and such
will be sold in such legal subdivision subdivisions will include
such mine mines less than dollars and fifty
The sales will each lie kept open weeks ness
are sooner disposed of and onger and private entries OF
land the townships and townships will be
admitted until after the expiration of weeks from the
mencement Of said sales.
In further execution of the said Commits
oner oil the General Land Office publish with this Proclamation
brief description Of the mineral which
and Of the lands offered for sale which he has prepared om
official documents and other OF information.
under hand eighth
OF September Ammo Domin thousand eight
SIN By the Presidents JAMES X. POLK.
The lands in the DIXON district procla
nation of the President States
owen the geoogs OF the State Indiana under
the Treasury Department and compliance with resolution OF
the House OF Representatives passed 9th Feb The able
OF this gentleman, published
Representatives first of 18th Congress- shows that
lands include all the productive Mines the entire
which, IRON observations during his there
believe that valuable veins readily
only partially worked produced upwards thirty millions pounds
eadhose of Illinois yielding their full that
whole district properly mined, would yield hundred and
nifty millions pounds per annum.
These lands being Mississippi and
rivers the of transporting the products them Louis
only about fifteen hundred pounds The soil
lent quality and yields abundany the products that latitude
The lands in the SHAWNEETOWN district have
pored fully those in Dixon Recent discoveries have
made however, oil rich OF the suphu of lead and zinc
and both sides of indicating
Of similar deposies within them The facilities manufacturing
white and red lead represented being ample and the lands
situated within about miles of the Ohio river the
in FORM transported all the principal markets
triing cost. JAMES Il. PIPER,
.7ctins Commissioner Of he General Land Office.
September sth, 1876. 32-l6ws