The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-01

day OF March next for the of the public lands hereto
mines therein, within the following townships and fac-
tiona townships known the rich lead mine district
North Of the base line and east Of the nth principal
townships elghiyeight, eghy-nine, and ninety, and
ir'cuoha township ninety OF range one.
Township eighty-eigh, and fractional townships eighty
nine, ninety and ninety one, of range two,
township eghy-seven, and fractional townships eighty
eight and eightynine, of range three
Fractional townships eighy-seven and eighty OF
range four.
Fractional township eghty-seven of range five.
North Of the base line aud mss Of the nth principal meridian
Township ninety and fractional township ninetyone of
Fractional townships ninetyone, nnety-wo and ninety
three, of range two. 'n
Township ninety-two, of range three.
Lands appropriated by law for the use OF schools, militia,
quarter quarter sections covered in whole or in part by
those mining leases which shall be determined by the
day fixed lor the commencement of these sales
Presumption claims will not be allowed TO any of the
above lands until after they have been offered az public
sale and become subject private entry; and all OF such
lands mine mines OF lead actually dis
covered and being worked win be sold in such legal sub
division subdivisions will include such mines
al not less than TWO dollars and fifty cents per
The sale will be kept open Tor two weeks (unless the
lands sooner disposed Oh and no onge and private
entries ofland in the townships and fractional townships
offered will be admitted until after the expiration OF
weeks from the commencement OF said sale
Commissioner 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 from official documents and
other means OF information.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington this
fifth day of September, ammo Donini, one thousand
eight hundred and torty-six.
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 above
proclamation of the President Of the United States, be-
eved contain the richest mines OF lead that have yet
dscoveed the yielding about eighty per cent OF
pure metal Copper also has been found in this region in
considerable quantities.
Great advantages said to exist for the manufacture OF
lead forms, particularly into shot, the river banks
being so elevated as require little expense in the
erection towers and the ore, from its great purity may
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. Lous is about fifteen per hundred
pounds The soil is represented being unusually fertile,
producing all the small grains in great abundance and fur
nishng excellent range for cattethus presenting equal in
ducemens the agricultrst and the miner
The DUBUQUE mines in fractional townships eighty
and ninety, of range two east situated the
the Mississippi considered the important
the mines in townships eghty-nine and ninety,
of range one east the vaue and the CArrEsE
fractional township eighyeight, of range three
east also the river, the third Other mines have
been discovered in this regon and is very probable that
future explorations will bring to light others rich and pro-
ductive any now known. - -
JAMES H. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Sept. s, lS46-law PAW