The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-17

withheld from sale on account of the valuable lead
mines therein within the following townships and inc-
tonal townships known the rich lead mine district,
TO wits
Townships eighty eight eighty nne and ninety, and
fractional township ninety-one, of range one
Township eighy-eght, and fractional townships eighty
nne ninety, and ninety-on of range TWO.
Township eighy-seven and fractional townships eighty
eight and eghty-nne, OF range three. ,,,, :.
Fractional townships eighty seven and elghty-eght Oh
fractional township eighty seven, Of range five;
North of the base line aud osf Of the nth inetpai meridian
Township ninety and fractional township nnety-one, OF
Fractional townships ninety -one niney-two, and ninety
three, of range two
Township ninety -two of range three.
Lands appropriated by law for the OF schools militia
ry other purposes will be excluded from sale; also al
quarter quarter sections covered in whole Or in part BY
day fixed for the commencement OF these sales
Presumption claims will not be allowed 10 any of the
abovs lands until after they have been offered AT public
sale and become subject to private enty and all of ncl
lands contain mine or mines OF lead ore actually dis
division subdivisions win include such mine mine
at not less than dollars and fifty cents per
lands disposed o and longer and private
entries of land in The townships and fractional townships SC
offered viii be admitted until after the expiration OF tive
weeks from the commencement OF said sale.
In further OF the said have caused tho
Commissioner OF the General Land Office TO publish viii
this proclamation brief description of the mineral regions
in which these lands lie and OF the lands now offered TO
sale, which he has prepared from official documents ant
other means Of information.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington. thi
eight hundred and forty-six.
JAMES X. POLK.
BY the President
JAMES VI. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office
The lands in the mineral regions, embraced in the aboy
proclamation of the President of the United States, be
eved contain the richest mines of lead that have
been discovered; the yielding about eighty per
pure metal Copper also has been found in this region IL
considerable quantities.
Great advantages said exist for the manufacture
lead in various FORMS particularly into shot, the bank
being elevated as to require little expense in tn
erection Of towers; and the from its purity
be manufactured into shot by the first smelling
The location Of these mines being the Mississippi
river affords great facilities of transportation the averag
of which ST. Louis about fifteen per hundre
pounds. The soil is represented being unusually fertile
producing all the small grains in great abundance and fur
nishing excellent for cattethus presenting equal
ducements 10 the agrculurst and the miner
The DUBUQUE mines in fractional townships eightyeigh
eightynne and ninety, of range situated
banks Of the Mississippi considered the most important
the DURANGO mines in townships eghiy-nine and ninety
of range east the in value; and the Gates
mines in fractional township eighty of range tire
east also OH the river, the third. Other mines hav
been discovered in this regon and it probable tina
future explorations will bring light others rich and pro
ductve any now known.
JAMES H. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner Of the General Land Office
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