The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-10
by the President OF the United States,

TN pursuance OF act of Congress, approved the
the President of the United States sell The reserved min
teraland the States of Illinois and Arkansas and Terri
l. JAMES X. POLK, President of the United States of
America, do hereby declare and make known, that pub
lie sale will be held the land Office DUBUQUE, in the
Territory of Iowa, commencing ON MONDAY, the eighth
day of March next for the sale OF the public lands hereto
fore withheld from sale account OF the valuable lead
mines therein, within the following townships and irac-
tiona townships known as the rich lead mine district,
North of the base line and east of the 6h principal meridian
Townships lightweight, eghy-nine, and ninety, and
fractional township nineiy-one, OF range one
Township eighy-egh, and fractional townships eighty
nine, ninety, and ninety -one OF range iwo-
Township eghy-seven, and fractional townships eighty
eight and eighty -nine, OF range three
Fractional townships eghy-seven and eighty OF
fractional township eighty seven OF range five.
North Of the base las and Of the mn principal meridian
Township ninety and fractional township ninety-one OF
Fractional townships ninety ninety-wo and ninety
three, of range two.
Township ninetytwo, OF range three.
Lands appropriated by lazy for the use Of schools ma
quarter quarter sections covered in whole or in part by
those mining leases which shall be determined by the
day fixed Tor the commencement OF these sales
Presumption claims will NOS be allowed TO any of the
above lands until after they have been offered public
sale, and become subject private entry; and all of such
lands contain mine mines OF lead ore actually dis
covered and being worked will be sold in such legal sub
AT not less Than two dollars and fifty per
The sale will be kept open iorw weeks (unless the
lands sooner disposed o and longer and private
entries of land in the townships and fractional townships
offered will be admitted until after the expiration of two
weeks from the commencement OF said sale.
In further of the said act have caused the
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
SALE which he has prepared from official documents and
other of information
Given under my hand the city of Washington, this
nth day OF September, ammo Do'nni, one thousand
eight hundred and iory-siN.
JAMES X POLK.
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 10 contain the richest mines OF lead that have yer
been dscovered the yielding about eighty per cent OF
pure metal Copper also has been found in this region in
considerable quantities.
Great advantages are said to exist for the manufacture
being elevated require little in the
erection and the ore from great purity
be manufactured into shot by the first smelling
The location OF these mines being the Mississippi
river affords great facilities Of transportation the
of which ST. Louis about fifteen per hundred
pounds The soil represented being unusually fertile
producing all the small grains in great abundance and fur
nising excellent range for cateths presenting equal
ducements 10 the ngricuiturist and the miner
The DUBUQUE mines fractional townships eighty-eIg
eigltyinc, and ninety, OF range two east situated on the
hunks Of the Mississippi, considered the Important
the DURANGO mines in townships eghty-nine and ninety,
of east, the in vaue and the CATrEsE
mines in fractional township cigtyeight, OF range three
east also the river, the third. Other mines have
been discovered in this cgon and it probable thai
explorations will bring light others rich and
ductve any known.
JAMES II. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Sept. 5, l8l6-law 24w