The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-25

day of March next for the sale of the public lands hereto
lore withheld from sale on account of the valuable lead
mines ieeln within the following townships and frac-
onai townships, known the rich lead mine district,
Townships eighty-eght eighty mine, and ninety, and
fractional .c township ninety-one, OF range one.
township eighty weight, and fractional townships eighty
mr. ~ n,n, ~ a ,s ninety -one, OF range TWO
iownshlp eghiy-seven and fractional townships eighty
eight and eighty mine, of range three.
fractional townships eightyseven and eighy-eigh OF
range four.
Fractional township eighty seven, OF range five
North Of s bqs Inc and sst Of nm principal erdian
Township ninety, and fractional township hneyone OF
Fractional townships niney-one ninety-two and ninety
three, OF range two.
Township nine'y-two OF range three
Lands appropriated by law or the use of schools militia
y and other purposes viii be excluded from sale; also all
mining leases Which se NOT b oi m s
day liked for The commencement Of these safes.
above anGs mil d n WAN pc. ne aowed to any o e
sale and become subject private entry and all Of such
covered and beng worked, viii be sold in such legal sub
d'islon or subdivisions will include such mine mines
at not less than two dollar. and fifty cents per acre
The sale viii be kept open Tor two weeks (uness the
lands are sooner disposed Oh and onger and private
entries of land in the townships and fractional townships
weeks from the commencement OF said sale.
Of h Q, I s land os y' pb 'hf
this proclamation brief description Of the mineral regions
in which these lands lie, aud OF the lands now offered io
SALE which he has prepared from official documents and
other means of information.
Given under hand at the city of Washington, this
fifth day of September ammo Domini, thousand
eight hundred and lorty-six
JAMES X. POLK.
BY the President;
JAMES II. pIpERI
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 TO contain the richest mines of lead that have yet
been discovered; the yielding about eighty per
pure metal Copper also has been found in this region
considerable quantities. Pl
Great advantages said exist for the manufacture
lead in various ios particularly into shot, the banks
being elevated to require little expense in 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 per hundred
pounds. The soil is represented being unusually fertile
producing all the small grains in great abundance, and fur
nshng excellent range for catlchus presenting equal III
ducements to the agriculturist and the miner.
The DUBUQUE mines i'll fractional townships lightweight
eightyne and ninety, OF range Two east, situated on the
banks OF the Mississippi considered the most important
the DURANGO mines in townships eighty nine and ninety
of east, the next in value; and the CATrEsl
mines IN fractional township eighty egh of range three
east also the river, the third. Other mines have
discovered ia this region; and is very probable tina
future explorations will bring light others rich and pro
ductive any now known.
JAMES Fl. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Sept. B. ISi6-law