The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-06

fore withheld from sale on of the valuable lea,
tiona townships known as the rich lead mine district
TO wit;
North of The base line and of the 6h principal meridian
Townships eighty weight, eighty mine, and ninety, an,
fractional township ninety-one, of range one.
Township eighty eight and fractional townships eighty
nine ninety, and ninety-one of range two.
township eighty and fractional townships eighty
eight and eighty nine, of range three.
Fractional townships eighy-seven and lightweight, o
range four.
Fractional township eighty-seven of range five.
North Of the base line and cest of nth prinpa meridian
Township ninety, and fractional township ninety-one
Fractional townships nnetyone, ninety two and ninety
three, of range two.
Township ninety-two, of range three
Lands appropriated by law for the of schools, militia
y and other purposes win be excluded from sales also al
those mining leases which shall be determined by the
day hxed Tor the commencement OF these sales
Presumption claims will not be allowed to any of the
above lands, until after they have been offered public
SALE and become subject to private entry; and all of such
covered and being worked, will be sold in such legal sub
division or subdivisions will include such mine mines
The sale viii be kept open for two weeks (unless the
lands sooner disposed o and onger and private
offered will be admitted until after the expiration Of two
weeks from the commencement OF said sale.
In further execution 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 now offered fo
sale which he has prepared from official documents anC
other means of information.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington th
fifth day of September, ammo Domni, one Thousand
eight hundred and torty-six.
JAMES X. POLK.
BY the Presidents
JAMES III. PIPER
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office.
The lands in the mineral regions, embraced in the abov,
proclamation of the President of the United States be
ieved contain the richest mines OF lead that have
been dscoveed the yielding about eighty per cent
pure metal Copper also has been found in this region
considerrbe quantities.
Great advantages said to exist for the manufacture
lead in various FORMS particularly into shot, the river bank
being elevated require little expense in tn,
erection OF towers; and the ore from its great purity,
be manufactured into shot by the first smelling.
The location OF these mines being near the Mississippi
river affords great facilities of transportation, the average
cost of which St Louis is about fifteen hundred
pounds The soil is represented being unusually fertile
producing all the small grains in great abundance, and fur
nlshing excellent for cattle-thus presenting equal
ducemens to the agriculturist and the miner.
The DUBUQUE mines in fractional townships lightweight
eghty-nine, and ninety, of range east, situated tn,
banks the Mississippi considered the most important
the DURANGO mines in townships eighty-nine and ninety
of range one east the next in value; and the CArrEsE
mines in fractional township eighty OF three
east, also ON the river, the third Other mines have
been discovered in this cgon and IL is probable that
future explorations will bring light others rich and pro
ductive any now known.
JAMES III. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office.
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