The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-20

fore withheld from sale on account of the valuable lead
mines therein, within the following townships and rac
tiona townships known as the rich lead mine district
Noyth Of the base line and Of the nth principal meridian
Townships eighty eight eighty nine, and ninety ana
fractional township ninety-one, Of range one
Township eghtyeght, and fractional townships eighty
Township eghty-seven and fractional townships eighty
eight and eighty-nine, of range three.
Fractional townships eighty seven and eighy-eigh OF
Fractional township eighry-seyen, Of range five
North of the base line and ,ceif Of the h principal meridian
Township ninety, and fractional township nney-one oil
range ONE 49,. 49,, ;.,,
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
quarter quarter sections covered in whole or in part by
those mining leases which shall not be determined by the
day fixed for the commencement OF these sales 80
Presumption claims will not be allowed TO any Of the
SALE and become subject private entry; and all of such
lands mine mines OF lead ore actually dis
division subdivisions will include such mine mines
at less than dollars and fifty cents per acre
lands are disposed o longer; and private
of land in the townships and fractional townships SC
offered will be admitted until after the expiration oil two
weeks from the commencement of said sale.
In further execution of the said act have caused tne
this proclamation brief description of the mineral regions
in which lands lie, and Of the lands offered fol
sale, which he has prepared from official documents ant
other means of information. 8
Gyen Under my hand at the ely Of Washington ns h
|
| JAMES X. POLK.
BY the President;
JAMES III. PIPER
! Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office.
The lands in the mineral regions, embraced in the abov
proclamation of the President of the United States, be
ieved the richest mines OF lead that have we
been discovered the yielding about eighty per
pure metal Copper also has been found in this region
considerable quantities.
Great advantages are said to exist for the manufacture
lead in forms, particularly into shot, the river bank
being elevated require little expense in thu
erection Of towers and ORE from its great purity
| be manufactured into shot by the first smelling
The location of these mines being near the Mississippi
river affords great facilities of transportation, the average
cost of which to St. Louis about fifteen per hunre,
pounds The soil represented being unusually fertile
producing all the small grains in great abundance and fur
nishing excellent range for cattehus presenting equal in
ducenents the agriculturist and the miner
The DUBUQUE mines in fractional townships eightyeigt
eghtynine, and ninety, range two east situated thu
banks the Mississippi considered the most portan,
the DURANGO mines in townships cghty-nine and ninety
range east the in values and the CATrEs
mines fractional township eightyeight, of range tire
east also the river, the third. Other mines hav
been discovered in this egon and it very probable tina
future explorations viii bring light others rich and pro
ductive any now known.
JAMES H. PIPER,
| Acting Commissioner of tie General Land Office
| Sent X -loxy 0i,v