Tri-weekly journal. (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1847-188?, 1847-10-19
TEXAS EMIGRATION AND
LAND COM p A N Y.
800 Acres Of Land for $2O".16O
Acres Of Land for $40!

TINE Texas EMIGRATION AND LAND COMPANY hav-
il ing derived their Grant from the late Republic OF
Texas BY contracts made with the President thereof
under authority of the special of Congress, APP
proved 4th February, iS4l and 10th January, 1S43,
granting lands to Emigrants will continue to give
800 acres of land families, and l6O acres OF land TO
single over IL years OF age. until the lsf day OF
July lS4S conditioned that the family shall pay $50,
and the single man $40, for the surveying fees "A
family, defined in our Contracts, must consist Oh
"A man and his wife, with or without children"
"a widower with two or more children; II males
under IL years OF age, if females unmarried"
"A widow with two or more children if males I'M
der II years of age, if females, unmarried
1.-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 Company, Mr..
Henry O. Hedgcoxe, residing at Stewartsvile in Den
county, who will at all times be ready to assist
him in the selection his land, and enter the same on
books kept for that purpose and give him certificate
therefor which certificate will be evidence OF his hav
ing settled in the Colony in due time.
Our Grant lies in the North Eastern part of Texas,
betweerthe 32nd and 34th degrees of Latitude North
and 10Th and 22nd degrees OF Longitude West from
Washington; beginning the south side of Red Riv
er, at point u miles east of the False Ouachtta,
running thence due South 100 miles, thence East l64
miles, thence North 100 miles, thence West l64 miles
to the beginning, having front on the meanderngs
of Red River OF nearly 800 miles; and includes with
nits limits the upper and lower Cross Iimbers, and
the head waters OF the Brasos and Trinity Rivers, the
Trinity being nayigable for Steamboats, of light
draught from the interior OF the Colony to the Gulf
of Mexico into which it empties, some 25 miles from
Galveston, and Red River TO the Mississippi afford
ing outlet for the surplus productions OF the coun
try. This portion of Texas Is peculiarly adapted TO
the growth of wheat, experience within the last two
years having tested the fact that ii will produce 40
bushels the acre. weighing 65 to 20 pounds to the
bushel. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet and
Irish potatoes, peas, beans melons garden vegetables
OF all kinds cotton hemp and tobacco, and the cele
brated muskeet grass which covers the pralres and
upon which cattle subsist, and keep fat during the
winter and require only to be occasionally sailed and
kept together, 10 them in great numbers.
The planting season commences in February and
continues until July; but the early crops are most pro-
ductve: Emigrants should go on in the fall or win
ter, to be ready to put IN an early crop Those
going from Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the
thern parts of Illinois and Indiana, should go through
Missouri or Arkansas to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort
TOwson Cofee's Station or Pine Bluff, thence into
the settlements in the direction OF the forks OF the
Trinity Those going from other sections of the IN
ion south, should 90 to Helena or Columbia, Ark,
Memphis, Tenn, or NatcheZ, Miss, and thence
across by land; or to New Orleans, and thence by
Steamboat up Red River TO Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place agent will be Stationed who will give
the emigrants directions their route by land 10
Dallas and Stewartsve distance o. some 200 miles.
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an industrious,
intelligent and moral people, and must soon become
the most populous part OF Texas The Government
has recently formed the counties of Grayson, Dallas,
Denton, Collin and part OF Robson and Navarro
within the Grant 1t is decidedly the most healthy
part of the state the lands having gently undulatng
surface; thereare ponds, swamps or marshes, and
local cause for disease, The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months of sum-
mer there is constant breeze playing over the pralr
les and the nights are invariably COOL the thernom
eer never rises above IS to 60 and in the winter
er falls below 80 degrees Fahrenheit Ii abounds in
springs, and the depth of fifteen twenty feet, in
the midst OF the prairie the best water can be had; all
the small streams peculiarly clear and crystal like
Colonel William Myers, who removed there from
Garrard County, Ky, last fall, says in letter dates
9Th May, 1871 will not venture TO tell my riendd
in Kentucky that the land here was better than the
best land in Kentucky because they would not be-
eve it, but now | assert II, for the soil Is deeper,
being in many places five feet, and the klndest land
to work put plough in. verify believe that
around the forks of the Trinity lies the largest body
of first-rate land in America" From the forks Of
Trinity TO Santa Fe is only about GOO miles by the old
Spanish TRAIL and the newspapers IN Texas are now
advocating the route up the Trinity and from Its forks
by land in every respect preferable to the one by
Independence Mo. Why should Emgrants think OF
going to Oregon or California when they can obtain
better land 70. nothing so much nearer homel
This is perhaps, the last opportunity that wlll ever
the mere cost of surveys and cost OF deeds Our Col
ony is emphatcally the place for the poor mans
homes there he does not have to feed his cattle tor SIX
or seven months in the year; there he will have
home market for all the surplus he produce for
years come, and with industry and economy, speed
lily become rich.
Let no Emigrant loose sight OF the important TACT
that our contracts with the Government of Texas ex
pre on the st day of July lS48 and that he must not
only be in the Colony but that he have selected
his land built house cabin thereon, and be resid
ing therein with his family by that day;--one day at
that date and the opportunity OF getting lands tor
nothing is perhaps lost for Persons desiring
additional information, by addressing the undersign-
ed Trustees either of them, post paid, shall rece re
prompt attention. Ia..
WILLIS STEWART Trustees ofhs
JOHN J. SMITH, Terds Emigration
VIC. PETERS, and Land Company
LOUISVILLE, SEPT. 1sT, ls47.-sep. l4-lm.