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Nv the President or the United states,

by the President United States.
enth day Of July, 1896 entitled 'A act to authorize o
President of tile United States to sell the reserved mineral
tories of Wisconsin and Iowa, supposed contain lena
ORE" 1, JAMES X. POLK, President of the United Sa
lie sales of The Lands hh from sale IN the S,i
ILLINOIS, account Of The pa'ahe lead mines eren viii
be held the aforementioned land offices, IN said State
the periods hereinafter designated, 10 witt
I Al the land office at DIXON, commencing on MONDAY
lands within the following townships and fractional town
North Of the base line and east of the fourth principal nc
Fractional townships twenty-seven twenty-eight and
! twenty-nine, OF range one
Townships wenty-seven and tweny-eght, and fractional
township twenty-nlne oil range Two
Townships wentyseven and twenIy-egl', and fractional
township twenty-nine, of range three
The north half of township wentyscven, township TWEEN
weight and fractional township twenty nine, of range four
North of the base line and mc Of the fourth principal mon
diam
Fractional townships twenty-seyen, tweny-eghi, and
twenty-nine, oil range one.
fractional townships twentyeight and twenty nine Of
Al the land office at SIIAwNEETowN, commencingoo
MONDAY the nineteenth day of April next for the disposal
of the public lands within the following sections, and parts
Of sections, viz
South of the base line and of the third principal meridian
Sections hcenty- ticeatynine inclusive, and see
tons ftcrvfpo TO thiry-sir inclusive of township eleven
sections inclusve and sections eight iee IN
elusive, in ownshiptwelve OF range seven.
sections lres 10 nae inclusive, sections feen 70 say
Of township eleven sections ttco, three the north half
and southeast quarter Of section foj sections fire to da
nclusve; the southwest quarter of section t,ccre the north
half of section foecn and sections fifteen to eighteen ncu
siye, in township twelve , Of range IN, nine Y,
ry or other purposes viii be excluded from the safes; ao
those mining leases which shall be determined by the
day liked for the commencement OF the sales.
above lands until after the same shall have been offered
the public sale, and become subject private entry and
all of such lands contain mines of lead ore
! ~ i'm small,
legal subdivision subdivisions will include such mine
or mines al not less than two dollars and fifty per
acre.
The sales will each be kePtoP for two weeks, (unes
entries of land in the townships and fractional town
ships offered will be admitted until after the expiration of
TWO weeks rom .e COMMENCEMENT Inc, a sag sales
Commissioner OF the General Land Office publish with
this proclamation brief description of the mineral regions
in which these lands lie, and OF the lands offered for
sae which he has prepared from official documents and
other means of information.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington, this
eighth day OF September, Domin thousand eight
JAMES X POLK
BY the President
Acting Commissioners of the General Land Office
The lands in the DIXON district, embraced in the above
explored by Mr. Owen, the geoogst of the State OF Indiana
under instructions from the Treasury Department, and
tves, passed 9th February, 1899 The able report this
gentleman, Published as document No 239, House of Rep
lands include all the productive mines, and the
gion in which, from observations during his survey there
is believe that valuable veins of readily
be found Further, that in 1899, the lead mines of Illinois,
Iowa, and Wisconsin, though only partially worked, pro
Illinois yielding their full proportionand that the whole
district, il properly mined, would yield hundred and
fifty million pounds per annum
These lands being situated and the Mississippi
and Fever rivers, the cost of transporting the products
them to St Louis is only about fifteen cents per hundred
pounds The soil is of excellent quality and yields abund
aniy all the products of that latitude
The lands in the SIiAWNEETOWN district have not
been explored fully those in Dixon. Recent dscov-
cries have been made however OF rich veins of the lphu
Of lead and zinc, contiguous and both sides Of
these lands, indicating the existence of similar deposes
within them. The facilities for manufacturing white and
red lead represented being ample; and the lands
Situated within about miles of the Ohio river
the metal, in any FORM can be transported all the pnc
pal markets at trihing cost.
e JAMES ii. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Sept S-1awts