The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-01
by the President OF the United tates.

by the President OF the United tates.
pursuance OF AN act of Congress- approved the eev
lsenth day OF July 1916, entitled San authorize the
President of the United States sell the reserved mineral
lands in the States of Illinois and Arkansas and Terri
ore" l. JAMES K POLK, President Of the United State.
OF America do hereby declare and make known tlat pub
ILLINOIS, account Of the pafuabie lead therein viii
be held at the aforementioned land offices, in said State,
| AT the land Office a DIXON, commencing on MONDAY
the fifth day Of April next for the disposal of the public
lands within the following townships and fractional town
North Of the base line and east Of the fourth principal er
Fractional townships twenty-seven twcnty-eight, and
| tweny-nne, of range
Townships wenyseven and twenty-eght and fractional
township twenty-nine, OF range two.
Townships tweny-seven and tweny7eght and fractional
township twenty-nne, OF range three
The north half OF township twenty township TWEEN
-elght and fractional township tWenynlne OF range four
Worth q the base "' and ''est q the fourth p'"Fpa me'
Fractional townships wenyseven, twenty-egh, and
| tWeny-nne, range
Fractional townships twenty and twenty-nine OF
range two.
MONDAY the nineteenth day April next the disposal
the public lands within the following sections and parts
| OF sections VIZ:
South of the base line and east of the third principal meridian
Sections tcentytico to fueaty iiae inclusive and
tons tcit ytco rtysr inclusive, Of township eleven
sections one to fpe inclusive and sections eight TO fcee in
elusive, in township twelve, of range seven.
Sections three to nine inclusive, sections ffteeS tocHy
t,co inclusive and sections enyfpe TO ttsir inclusive
OF township eleven; sections tic0 three the north hall
and southeast quarter of section four sections fue eve
ncusve the southwest quarter of section t"re the north
half Of section fourteen; and sections fifteen hteen nc
sive, in township twelve, OF range nine
Lands Appropriated by law for the of schools militia
ry other purposes will be excluded from the saies also
all quarter quarter sections covered whole 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 be allowed TO any OF the
above lands until after the shall have been offered
the public SALE and become subject TO private entry; and
all of such lands contain mine mines OF lead
actually discovered and being worked, will be sold in such
legal subdivision subdivisions will include such mine
mines, at not less than two dollars and fifty cents per
acre.
the lands disposed of) and no onger and pri
waite entries of land the townships and fractional
ships offered will be admitted until after the expiration OF
two weeks from the commencement of said sales
In further execution of the said act have caused the
Commissioner of the General Land Office to publish with
this proclamation brief description of the mineral regions
in which these lands lie, and OF the lands offered for
SALE 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, Domn thousand eight
'>'' JAMES X. POLK.
| By the President.
JAMES II. PIER,
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 geoogs of the State OF Indiana
in compliance with resolution the House of Representa-
nve passed 9Th February, 1899 The able report OF this
esenatves first session OF 18th Congress- shows that these
lands include all the productive Mines and the entire
gion in which, from observations during his survey there
is TO believe that valuable veins of ore may readily
be found. Further that in 1882 the lead mines OF Illinois,
Iowa, and Wisconsin, though only partially worked, pro
dnced upwards of thirty million pounds OF those OF
Illinois yielding their full propoon--and that the whole
district, If properly Mined would yield one hundred and
fifty million pounds per annum.
These lands being situated and the Mississippi
and Fever rivers the of Transporting the products OF
them St Louis is only about fifteen cents per hundred
pounds The soil is of excellent quality and yields abund
anty all the products of that latitude.
The lands in the SHAWNEETOWN district have not
been explored fully those in Dixon Recent dscov-
cries have been made, however, of rich veins OF the SULPHUR
ret 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 seven miles of the Ohio river,
the metal in any torm be transported to all the princi
pal markets at trling cost.
JAMES ii. PIPER,
Acting Commissioners of the General Land Office
| Sept S-lawts