Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-02-17
BY THE PRESIDENT-OF THE rN,
TED STATES.


N pursuance OF an act OF Congress, an
proved on the eleventh day of July. iRA6
entitled IAN act 10 authorize the President
OF the United States to sell the rese,ved
mineral lands in the States of Jllinois ami
Arkansas, and Territories OF Wisconsin and
Iowa. supposed to contain lead ore,, i
JAMES X, POLK, President Of The iIni.,
ed States Of America, do hereby declare and
make known. that public sale will he beld
al the Land Office a, DUBUOIIE IN ,na
Territory of IOWA, commencing m Mon
day, the eighth day of March neSt, for The
sale Of the pubic lands heretofore withheld
from SAFE on account Of The valuable lead
MINES therein. within the following town
ships and fractional townships, known as
the rich lead mine district, town.
WORTH q me base tine and east Of the fflt
principal meridian.
Townships eighty eight, eighty, nine and
ninety, and fractional township ninety one.
OF range one.
Township eighty eight, and fractional
townships eighty mine, ninety and ninelv.
one, of range two.
Township eighty seven. and fractiona,
townships eighty eigh, and eigh,y-nine of
range three. =
fractional townships eighty seven and
eighty eight, OF range four.
Fraclionaltownship eighty seven of range
FIVE.
North Of Tie base line and ues. of tie fifth
principal meridian.
Township ninety, and fractional township
ninety one, OF range one,
Fractional townships nienty one, ninety :
two and ninety three, Of range two.
Township ninety two, range three.
Lands appropriated by law for the use Of
schools, military and other purposes, will
be excluded from sale; also all quarter quar-
ter sections covered in whole, or in part, by
those mining leases, which shall not be de-
termtned by the day Fixed for the commence
| meni OF these sales. 49,
Pre- emption claims will not be allowed
| 10 any OF the above lands, until after they
have been offered al public sale, and become
subject TO private entry; and all of such
lands as contain mine Or mines OF lead ore
actually discovered and being worked will
be sold in such legal subdivision or subdv-
sions as will include such mine or mines, at
not less than Two dollars and fifty cents per
acre.
The sale will be kept open for two weeks.
(unlsss the lands are sooner disposed nf) and
no longer; and no private entries Of land
in the townships and fractional townships
SO offered will be admitted until after the
expiration Of two weeks from the conf
mencemeni of said sale.
In further execution of The said act, |
have caused the Commissioner of the Gen.
eral Land Office TO publish with This proca.
nation tref description of the mineral re-
giions in which these lands lie, and of the
lands now offered for sale, which he ha.
prepared from official documents and ohe-
means Of information.
Given under my hand al the City Of
Washington. this fifth day of September,
Ammo Domlnl, one thousand eight hundred
and foriy-six.
BY the President
JAMES X. POLK.
JAMES Fl PIPER,
.4cting Com. ofMe Gen. Land Office,
The lands ia the mineral regions, embrac.
ed in the above proclamation OF the Pfes,
dent of the United States, are believed 10
contain the richest mines OF lead That have
yet been discovered; the ore yielding about
eighty per cent. Of pure metal, Copper,
also, has been found 10 this region in cen
siderable quantities.
Great advantage are said to exist for the
manufacture Of lead in various forms, par
ticulariy into shot; the river banks being so
elevated as 10 require little TO no expense in
the erection If towers: and The ore, tom rs
great purity, may be manufactured into shot
by the first smelling.
The location Of these mines being near the
Mississippi nver, affords great facilities OF
transportation, the average cost Of which 10
ST, Louis is about fifteen cents per hundred
pounds. The soil is represented as being
unusually fertile. producing all the small
grains in great abundance, and furnishing
excellent range tor caitle-thus presenting
equal Inducements 10 The sgricullurst and
the miner,
The DUBUQUE mines in fractional
townships eighty eight. eight nine, and
ninety, of range two east, situated on the
banks of the Mississippi, are considered the
most I'M portani; the DURANGO mines IN
townships eighty nine anu ninety. OF range
one east, are The next in value; and the
CA FrESE mines in fractional town ship
eighty eight, OF range three east, also on the
river, are the third Other mines have been
discovered in This region; and i, is very pro
bable that future explorations will bring TO
light Others as rich and productive as any
now known.
JAMES II. PIPER,
.4cting Com'r ofthe General Land Office
September 9th 1876.