The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-16

fore withheld from sale of the valuable lead
mines therein within the following townships and ffac-
TO wits
North Of The base line and Of the h principal meridian
Townships eightyeght eighty -nine and ninety, and
fractional township niney-one Of range one.
Township lightweight, and fractional townships eighty
Township eghy-seven and fractional townships eighty
eight and eighty nine, OF range three
Fractional townships eighty seven and eighty oil
range four.
North of the base line and esf Of the hf principal meridian
Township ninety and fractional township nneone, OF
fractional township ninety -one piney-two, and ninety
Township ninety-txo of range three.
Lands appropriated by law for the of schools militia
m and other purposes will be excluded from sale; also all
those mining leases which be determined by the
day fixed for the commencement OF these sales
above lands until after they offered public
sale, and become subject private entr and all OF such
and being worked, will be sold in such legal sub
division subdivisions will include such mine mines
at not less than two dollars and fifty per
The sale will be kept open Tor two weeks (uness the
lands disposed o and longer and private
entries of land in the townships and fractional Townships
offered will be admitted until after the expiration
weeks from the commencement OF said sale
In further execution OF the said act, have cansed the
Commissioner of the General Land Office publish with
this proclamation brief description OF the mineral regions
sale which he has prepared from official documents and
other means of information.
fifth day OF September ammo Domini, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-six
BY the President:
JAMES ii. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner Of the General Land Office.
The lands in the mineral regions embraced in the above
proclamation the President of the United States be
leved contain the richest mines of lead that have ye
been discovered 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 bank
being elevated little
erection OF towers and the ore from its purity may
be manufactured into shot by the first smelling.
The location Of these mines being the Mississippi
river affords facilities of transportation, the
of which ST. Louisis about fifteen
pounds The soil is represented being unusually fertile
producing all the small grains great abundance, and fur
nishng excellent range for cattethus presenting equal in
ducements 10 the agriculturist and the miner.
The DUBUQUE mines in fractional townships lightweight
eghtynine, and ninety, of range two east, situated
banks of the Mississippi considered the most important
the DURANGO mines in townships eighty and ninety
of range one east are the next in vane and the CArEsl
mines in fractional township eightyegh of range three
east, also the river, the third. Other mines have
been discovered in this egon and it is probable
future explorations will bring Light others rich pro-
ductive any now known.
JAMES H. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner Of the General Land Office
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