The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-19
BY the president Of the United state.

TN pursuance of of Congress, approved the
the President of the United States sell the reserved min
eraands in the of Illinois and Arkansas and Terri
i, 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, the
Territory Of Iowa, commencing MONDAY, the eighth
day Of March next for the sale Of the public lands hereto
mines therein within the following townships and fac-
onal townships, known as the rich lead mine district,
North of the base line and Of the fifth principal meridian
townships eighty;eght eighty nine, and ninety, and
Township eghy.eght and fractional townships eighty
nine, ninety, and nney-one, of range two.
Township eghty-sevea and fractional townships eighty
eight and eighty-nne of range three.
Fractional townships eghy-seven and eghty-eight, Of
Fractional township eighty seyen, Of range five:
North Of the base ne and ,c Of the fffh principal meridian
Township ninety and fractional township ninety of
Township ninety two OF range three.
ry and other purposes will be excluded from se also all
quarter quarter sections covered whole in part by
day fixed for the commencement of these sales.
Presumption claims will be allowed to any of the
SALE and become subject to private eny and all of such
lands contain mine or mines of lc,d actually dis
covered and being worked, will be sold in such legal sub
division subdivisions will include such or mines
at not less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre.
The sale will be kept open for weeks (lnless the
lands are sooner disposed OF and onger and private
offered will be admitted until after the expiration of
weeks from the commencement of said sale.
In further execution of the said have caused
Commissioners 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 official documents and
other means of information.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington, this
fifth day OF September, ammo Domin, thousand
eight hundred and orty-sx.
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
proclamation OF the President of the United States, be-
eved contain the richest mines of lead that have yet
been discoveries the yielding about eighty per
metal Copper also has been found In this region in
considerable quantities.
Great advantages said TO exist for the manufacture Of
lead IN various forms, particularly into shot, the river banks
being elevated require little expense in the
erection OF towers and the from its great purity,
be manufactured into shot by the first smelling.
The location OF these mines being the Mississippi
affords facilities OF the
of which ST. Louis fifteen cents per hundred
pounds The soil is represented being unusually fertile
producing all the small grains in abundance and fur
nishng excellent for cattethus presenting equal
ducements to the agriculturst and the miner.
The DUBUQUE mines in fractional townships eighty eight,
eighty and ninety OF range two east situated the
banks the Mississippi considered the important;
the DURANGO mines in townships eghty-nine and ninety,
OF east, the in vaue and the GATES
mines in fractional township eigtyeight of range three
east also on the river, the third Other mines have
been discovered in this egon and very probable that
re explorations will bring light others rich and pro-
ductive any now known.
JAMES II. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Sept. s, lS46-law paw