The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-08

Hy tAe ErpGs&eut a. ku0 Un1eoQ At0eeos
eleventh day Of july iss entitled aei to auhorze
the t. Of s un!1a so ae sn9 q sen ne v
tories of Wisconsin and Iowa. supposed contain lead "
lanes x POLK President Of The United states s, o.
c sale will DO held at the land office a. DUBUQUE, in the
Territory q Iowa. eomnencing On MoNpAY the eighth
fore withheld from sale on account OF the valuable lead
mines therein. within the following townships and ffnc
No.h Of The base line AVID east Of the h riseial sdio~
Townships eighty-eigt, eghty-nine, and ninety, and
fractional township nine,y-one, of range ono. 4i
Township eighy-eeh. and fractional townships eighty
TOWNSHIPS seven, and fractional townships eighty
eight and GInht mine, Of range three. .ts.
Fractional townsAps eghty-seven end eighfy-shs 81
' Frscsicna township eehsy.eyen, q range five;
Township ninety and fractional township niney-one of
range Il. rf-r lata
fractional townships ninety ninetytwo and ninety
Township ninety-two of range three.
Lands appropriated by law for the use OF schools militia,
ry and OTTER purposes will be excluded from sae also all
quarter quarter sections covered in whole part by
those mining lenses which shall not be determined by the
day fixed for the commencement of these sales
Presumption claims will not be allowed to any of the
above hands, until after they have been offered at public
sale and become subject to private eniry and all OF such
lands mine mines of lead ore actually dis
division or subdivisions will include such mine mines
ut not less than dollars and fifty cents per ncre
lands disposed o and onger and no private
entries of land in the townships and fractional townsh
offered will BIO admitted until after the expiration OF two
weeks from the commencement OF said sale ~
In further execution OF the said act have caused the
Commissioners 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
JAMES X. POLK
BY the President:
JAMES II. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
The lands in the mineral regions, embraced in the above
Of the President of the United States, be-
eved contain the richest mines OF lead that have yet
been scoveed the yielding about eighty per cent oil
pure metal Copper also has been found IN this region In
considerable quantities.
Great advantages said TO exist for the manufacture oil
lead various FORMS particularly into shot, the river banks
being elevated require little no expense m the
erection of towers and the from its great 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
which ST. Louis Is about fifteen cents per hundred
pounds The soil is represented being unusually fertile
producing all the small grains IN great abnndancc ana r
nishng excellent for cateths presenting equal IN
duceiients the agriculturist and the miner
The DUBUQUE mines in fractional townships eIghiycigh
eghtynine and ninety of range two east situated ON the
banks the Mississippi considered the most inportan
the DURANGO mines in townships eghy-nlne ana ninety,
of range east the next in values and the CATTEsE
mines in fractional township eighty OF range three
east also the river, the third Other mines have
been discovered in this egon and 1t is very probable thai
future explorations viii bring light others as rich and pro-
ductfve as any now kiiovvn y I, s,,,r,,,.,,
Acting Commissioner Of the General Land Office
Sept. 8, 1846--law paw