The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-07

iS7 forth the March, ISl7 above men
toned, authorized and purchase the al
the price, the terms and conditions and the
prescribed by that and less time before
day fixed for sale those mineral
lands making proof possession and in
compliance with those terms to the Register and Receiver
of the Land Office, subject appeal Secretary OF
the Treasury and persons entitled TO the right OF
empton any OF the agricultural lands embraced ~ this
required to establish the salts
fiction of the Register and Receiver and make payment
therefor practicable after seeing notice and be
lie sale of the lands embracing claimed ohe
such presumption claim will be forfeited M.
The certificate of the mineral Sault Ste. Marie
that holding under permits those in the
occupancy OF a mine mines, have paid up per
cenum of rents required by the act above mentioned win
Persons occupying under leases permits will not be
permitted TO elnquish their rights under thar occupancy
and enter squates and where any such per-
mts expire before the day of SALE the rights granted
to the holders thereof will be regarded reervng the lands
covered thereby from entry under any other till the
day of SALE when they will be offered public sale
RICHARD NJ. YOUNG, Commissioner.
TO THE PUBLIC
The minera ands' included in the foregoing proclama-
aon embrace the greater portion of keweena Point. and
ninsua of Michigan, and immensely valuable
by the exhansdess mines OF copper and other found
therein.
considerable number of those mines have already been
in the trap ranges bordering on Lake Superior
acer OF the country, and the explorations already made, il
& % II be aSS aa 1q"s i
In some OF the mines worked, copper found almost
TACT, OF the yield
greater centage than other discovered the
world. Silver is also found in considerable quantities
All the necessary materials for the construction of fur
and fuel for smelling found in abundance in the
immediate neighborhood of the mineral and the face Of
the country SUCH that the require but little, if any,
artlca drainage, and therefore worked great add
vantage.
The climate in the winter, though cold, does not inter-
rupt the operations OF the miners in fact that season is
considered the most favorable for their operations,
The proximity of these mineral lands shore Of Lake
Superior which several safe and excellent harbos
and the water communication theefrom by the Sau Ste
transporting the products of these lands the principal
M rkets of the United States "a very trihing
likewise appears, from the reports this office, that
the agricultural lands are OF fair quality producing the
usual culinary vegetables and grass in abndance and
doubt, when the soil is properly titled twill be favorable
Tor grain crops Timber sufficient for the usual purposes
and in many places abundant, white and yellow pine
sugar mape yellow BIRCH &c and by their thrifty growth
give evidence of the richness of the SOIL the product of
which will command fair price from their vicinity the
mines, which will always furnish good market
Maps showing the localities ofthe mines and other vaua-
BILE information relating thereto, derived from the geologi
cal survey &c, which cannot be embraced in this brief
notice, will be prepared and deposited with the land Off
at the Sau Sic Marie, early practicable before
the commencement of the public sales, for inspection
RICHARD NJ YOUNG,
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Jan 29-lawI2w