The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-18

fore withheld from of the valuable lead
mines therein, within the following townships and irae-
tiona townships known the rich lead mine district
North Of the base line and east of the f principal meridian
Townships eighty weight, eighty and ninety, and
fractional township ninetyone, Of range one. ,-,..
nine, ninety, and ninety one OF range two
Township eighysevcn, and fractional townships eighty
Eight and eighty-nine, of range three ,A. =,
Fractional townships eighy-seven and eghtyeighi, OF
range four
North Of the base line of the nth mcuai meridian
Township ninety, and fractional township ninetyone, OF
fractional townships ninety one, ninety and ninety
Township ninety-two, of range three
Lands appropriated by law for the of schools, militia
y, and other purposes will be excluded from sales also all
those mining leases which shall be determined by the
day fixed for the commencement OF these sales.
above lands uni after they have been offered public
sale, and become subject private ent and all of such
covered and being worked win be sold in such legal sub
division subdivisions as VIII include such mine or mines
at not less than dollars and fifty per acre.
The sale will be kept open for two weeks (unless the
lands disposed OF and no onger and no private
offered will be admitted until after the expiration OF two
weeks from the commencement of said sale.
Commissioner of the General Land Office publish with
this proclamation brief description of the mineral regions
a,,i hih h % ren,ared from of,;cia Jocuments and
Given under my hand at the city of Washington this
fifth day of September, Domin one thousand
eight hundred and orty-sM - 49,,
BY the President:
JAMES III. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
The lands in the mineral regions embraced in the above
proclamation of the President of the United States, be-
eved contain the richest mines of lead that have yet
been discovered the yielding about eighty per OF
pure metal Copper also has been found in This region in
considerable quantities
Great advantages said to exist for the manufacture
lead in forms, particularly into shot, the banks
- elevated 4
erection of towers and the from its purity may
be manufactured into shot by the first smelling
The location of these mines being the Mississippi
river affords great facilities of transportation, the average
OF which ST. Louis is about fifteen per hundred
pounds The soil is represented being unusually fertile
producing all the small grains great abundance and fur
nishng excellent range for cattethus presenting equal
ducements to the agriculturst and the miner.
The DUBUQUE mines in fractional townships eightyeight
eghy-nine, and ninety, orange two east situated the
banks of the Mississippi considered the important;
the DURANGO mines in townships eghty-nine and ninety
of range east the next in vaue and the CATEsE
mines in fractional township lightweight, of range three
east also the river, the third Other mines have
been discovered in this regon and probable that
future explorations will bring to light others rich and pro-
ductive any now known.
JAMES II. PIPER
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
Spnt X lXV