Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-11-09
Texas Emigration & Land Company.
800 ,.aeres Of landJor S3O!-l60 .aere, Of
land for $40!

btt5tu JOT spAOs
y NHE Texas EMGRATIoN AND LAND CoMpAxY
having derived ,heIr Grant from the late
Republic ni Texas, by contracts made with The
President therol. under authority of the special
acts of Congress, sppr- we'd 4ts February, s81t
end 10th January, lS43, granting lands ~ Emil
nran:s, will continue TO give 32p acres OF Iand ~
families, and l6if acres Of lind to- single men
over IL years Of age, until tie LIST day Of July,
1913, conditioned, that The family shall pay $50,
AMI the single man $40, for she surveying fees =
A family, defined in our contracts, mist coa-
sist Of
"a man an hiswife. with or wirb0u&ehildrsn
ga wIdower with two or eBiAflttat, IL
males under II yeas of age, il females eAsltar~-
ried.n
"a widow with TWO or more childred: il maies
under l. years Of nge, If females, unmarried '"
''Two single men over the age Of seventeen
years, each one being entitled to l60 acres"
On his arrival in the Colony, the Emigrant
should forthwith apply TO the agent of the Com
pany, Mr.. Henry u. i1edgccxe, residing at Stew
artsville in Denton county. who will al all times
he ready to assist him in the selection OF his land
and enter the same on books kept fer that pur.
pose, and give him certificate therefor: which
certificate will be evidence Of his having settled
iL tire Colony im due time.
Our Grant lies in the North Eastern Part of
Tex S, between the 3ind and 34tff dsRrees Of
Latiinde North, and 10 and % degrees OF l.as-
gitude West, from Washington; beginning on the
south side of Red River. at point IL miles east
of the False Ouashitta, running thence dus
South 100 miles. thence East l64 miles, thence
North ito miles, thence West l64 miller 10 tie
beginning, having font OIL the msandsrnes OF
Red River of nearly 300 miles; and includes
within its limits the upper and lower Cross TIM
bers, and ths head waters Of the Brasas;an Tito
ny Rivers, the Trinity being navgable for Steam
Boats OF light draugh:, from the interior of the
Colony 10 The Gulf of Mexico into which il emp
ties, some % miles Gom Galveston, and Red Riv.
er, to the Mississippi, afording an cutie. fer the
surplus productions Of the country. This portion
of Texas is peculiarly adapted to the growth Of
whest, experience within the last two TeaGs hav.
ing tested the fact, that il will produce 40 bushels
TO the acre, weighing IS to 10 pounds OH the
oushe'. Indian coru, rye, barley, oats, swSsi
and Irish potatoes, peas, beans, melons gardsH
vegetable of ali kinds, cotton, hemp md tobacco,
and the celebrated muskcet grass whie, covers
The prairies and upon which cattle subsist, ard
keep fat during Tire winter, and re IuiTs only 70
De occasionally sailed and kept together, to rear
them in great numbers.
The planting season commences in FsbruarY
and continues until July; but the carly crops are
the most productive. Emigrnnis should go on In
the fall Or winter, so as 10 be ready TO put ia an
early crop. Those going from Missouri, IORS,
Wisconsin and northern parts Of Illno and In
diana, should GO through Missouri on ARKANSAS
to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson, Cofee's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into The settlements
in the direction Of The forks ofthc Trinity. Thoss
going from other sections Of The Union, SOUTH
should go to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem.
phis, Tenn. or Natchez, Miss, and thSncea cToss
by Iand or 10 New Orleans al d thence By Sstaar
Boat up Red River to Shreveport, LnuisisuS,as
which place an agent will be stationed, wac vii
give cinigranIs directions TO their By Sua.
TO Dallas AMI Stewartsvl.e, a distance Of soass
800 mlas
Our colony is rapidly filling up wifi ~ ishss5
i-Ious, Intelligent and moral people aid nt1E
soon become the most populoIs part Of Texas
he government has recently formed the counties
ct Grayson, Dallas, Deaton, Collin and a part
OF Robertson and Navarro within tine Grant IL
s decidedly the most healthy part of the ssaie,tAo
lands having having gentle undulating surface:
there are no ponds, swamps or mar hes, and no
local cause for disease. The atmosphere il puro
and pleasant. During the warmest months Us
summer there is a constant breeze playing oter
the prairies, and the nights are invariably cool;
the Thermometer never rises above IS to 80, and
III die winter never falls below 81 degrees FaA-
renheit. IL abounds in springs, aud al the depth
OF fifteen OF twenty feet, in the midst Of the prai-
RE, taa best water can be had; all lie small
streams are peculiarly clear aud crystal like -
COLONEL William Myers who removed from Gas.
art county, KY, last fall, says ic a letter dated
9th Nav, iS47-"I will not venture to tell nav
friends in Kentucky thar the land here was better
THAI the best land in Kenturky, because sksy
would not believe il; but now assert il, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places FIVE fees
AMI the kindest land to work l ever put plough
IN. verify believe that around the forks of die
Trinity. lies ihe largest body Of 6rsi-rate land ia
Amenca." From the forks Of the Trinity To-
santa Fe, is only COZ miles by the old Suanish
trail and the newspapers in Texas are now adyo-
eating the route up the Trinity and from i'm forka
by land, as in every resi- preferable to the one
BY Independence, No. Why should amisran,a
think of going to Oregon or California when they
can obtain better land for nothing, 90 much near
er home!
ms 10, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever oner OH the continent Of America Of getting,
lands for the mere cost Of surveys and cost Of
deeds. Our Colony is sUphatieally the place
ior the poor mans hons: there he does DOT have
10 iced his cattle for six or seven months in ths
year; there he will have u home niarkst for oil
the surplus he can produce for years TO coIne,aad
with industry and economy, speedily beeoms rich
Let no Emigrant lose sight Of the Important fact
that our contracts with ahe Government Of Texas
expire on The Isl day of July, i646, and that he
must not ouly be IN the Colony, but that he must
have selected his land, built house or cabin
thereon, and be residing therein with his family
by that day ;-one day l,fter that daEs, and thsl
opportunity of getting laads for nettipg is per-;
haps, lost for Persons DESIRING additional.
information, BY addressing the undersigned Trus-
tees OF either Of thsm, posi- paid, shall receive
prompt attention. SOB
WILLIS STEwxRT,l Trustees ef6se 20
JONI j. sMIra. Teas .EaRsTalioa1s
w. e. PETERS, and Land CSnsao7x.