The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-30

day of March next for the sale of the public lands hereto
fore Withheld from sale on account Of he valuable lead
tona townships, known as the rich lead mine district,
TO wit;
North Of he base line and east Of the nth principal meridian
Townships eighty eight eighty nine, and ninety, and
fractional township ninety-one, of range one.
Township eghy-eght and fractional townships eighty
nine, ninety, and niney-one, OF range two.
Township eghy-Seven and fractional townships eighty
eight and eighiy-nine, of range three.
Fractional townships eghtyseven and eighy-eight, OF
North of the base line and of The nth principal eridian
Township ninety and fractional township niney-one of
Fractional townships ninety one ninetytwo and ninety
three, OF range two.
Township ninety-two of range three.
Lands appropriated by law for the OF schools, militia
ry, and other purposes will be excluded from sale; also all
those mining leases which shall be determined by the
day fixed for the commencement OF these sales.
Presumption claims will be allowed any of the
above lands until after they have been offered at public
sale, and become subject private enry and all of such
covered and being worked, viii be sold in such legal
division subdivisions win include such mine mines
not less than two dollars and fifty cents per
The sale viii be kept open for two weeks (uness the
lands disposed o and no longer; and private
of land in the townships and fractional townships
offered viii 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
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 Tor
sale, which he has prepared from Official documents and
other means of ntonnatlon
fifth day of September ammo Domini, thousand
eight hundred and lory-siN
JAMES X. POLK.
BY the President
JAMES II. PTER,
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-
iieyed contain the richest mines OF lead that have
been discoveries the yielding about eighty per
pure metal Copper also has been found in this region
considerable quantities.
Great advantages said To exist for the manufacture
lead in various FORMS particularly into shot, the river banks
being go elevated require little expense 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
river affords great facilities of transportation the average
which ST. Louis is about fifteen per hundred
pounds The soil represented being unusually fertile
producing all the small grains great abundance, and fur
nsng excellent range cattlcths presenting equal IN
ducenents To the agriculturist and the miner.
The DUBUQUE mines in fractional townships eighty-eight
eghty-nne, and ninety, of range two east, situated on the
banks the Mississippi considered the important
the DURANGO mines in townships eighty nine and ninety,
Of east, the next in value; and the CArrEsI
mines in fractional township eightyeigh Of range three
east, also the river, the iri. Other mines have
been discovered in this regon and IL is probable that
future explorations will bring light others rich and pro-
ductive any now known.
JAMES II. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
Sept. 5, IS46-law 24w