The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-13
by the PRECEDENT Of tho United states.

pursuance nj act OF Congress- approved the
ent day OF July 1876, entitled San authorize the
President of the United States sell The reserved mineral
lands N NE States of Illinois and Arkansas, and Terri
tories OF Wisconsin and Iowa, supposed contain lead
lore" JAMES X. POLK, President of the United States
he sales Of he lands mGea from SAFE ~ the State .,
ILLINOIS. accoaf of The rauahe lead therein will
pc held az the derneniioned land offices, in said State
The periods hereinafter designated, TO witt
~ he land office At ONION, commencing MONDAY,
lands within tie oonins townships and fractional town,
ships, viz;
Worth Of the tasc Inc md ec Of The fourth principal
lweilynine, of range one.
Townships and twenty and fractional
township twenty nine, of range
townships weniy-seven and twentyeig, and fractional
The north hall township twenty seven township twer-
y-cg and fractional township tweny-nnc of range
Soa q fAe ba'e line and uesi q he fo" ri"eat nesi-
Fractional townships tweny-seven, wcntyeight, and
twenty nins, of range ~ 3
Fractional townships twenty-eght and twenty-nine, OF
range two flatEsaea4
the land Office at SIIAWNEETOWN, commencing on
MONDAY the nineteenth day OF April next orthe 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 tcentyt,co to reny-nie inclusive, and sec
sections fire inclusive and sections eight cere in
elusive, in township twelve, of range seven.
Sections three to sae inclusive sections fifteen fcety
tro INCLUSIVE aud sections tarent yGpe inclusive
of township eevcn sections tho, three the north hall
Inclusive; the southwest quarter foeire the north
half Of section fourteen sections fifteen g incl-
sve in township twelve, OF range nine.
Lands appropriated by law the of schools militia
ry other purposes viii be excluded from the saies also
those mining leases which shall be determined by
day fixed for the commencement of the sales.
Presumption claims win not be allowed to any of the
above lands until after the same shall have been offered
the public SALE and become subject private enry and
actually discovered being worked will be sold such
legal subdivision subdivisions as viii include such mine
or mines less than dollars and fifty per
The sales viii each be kePtopen for two weeks tunless
ships offered will be admitted until after the expiration OF
two weeks from the commencement Of snid sales.
In further of the said act, have caused the
Commissioner of the General Land Office publish with
in which these lands lie and OF the lands offered for
sale, which he has prepared from official documents and
Given under my hand at the city of Washington, this
eighth dry Of September, Domini thousand eight
''''' = So ~ - JAMES X. POLK.
BY the President.
JAuEs H. PIPER,
Acting Commissioners of The General Land Office.
The lands in the DIXON district embraced in the above
proclamation Of the President of the United States
cypore by Mr. Owen the geoogist of the State Of lndana
under instructions from the Treasury Department., and
in compliance with resolution of the House of Representa-
tives, passed 9th February 1899. The able report of this
reenatves first session Of 18th Congress- shows that these
lands include all The productive mines. and the entire
son in which, from observations during his survey, there
be found Further, that in 1899, the lead mines oil Illinois,
Iowa. and Wisconsin, though only partially worked, pro-
Ilnus yielding their flu proporionand that the whole
DISTRICT properly mined, would yield hundred and
lilly million pounds per nnn,tm. @JiE
These lands being situated on and near the Mississippi
and Fever rivers, the cost of transporting the products Of
them st. Louis is only about fifteen psr hundred
pounds The soil is of excellent quality and yields abund
antly all the products of that latitude.
The lands in the SHAW NEETOWN district have not
been explored az fully those in Dixon Recent discov
cries have been mae however, ofrch veins of the suphu
lend and zinc, contiguous TO, and both sides of
these lands indicating the existence Of similar deposites
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, be transported all the prnc
pal markets triting cost
JAMES H. PIPER,
Acting Commissioners of the General Land Office.