Arkansas intelligencer., 1847-10-16
TEXAS EMIGRATION AND
LAND COMP ANY
82O ACRES OF LAND FOR 500! - I6O ACRES OF LAND
FOR $40!
gayHE TrxAs Em!enArlon LANp CcncANr lay.

M ing derived their Grant from The late Re
public Of Texas, by contracts made with tn,
President thereof. under authority of tho speciu
acts of Congress. approved 4th February, lSI
and 10Th January, iS43. granting land, to Emil
grants, will continue to give $50 acres Of land tc
families, and 100 acres of land to single men
over II years Of age, until the lst day Of July
1913. conditioned that the family shall pay $50
and The single man $40, for the surveying fees
4 family, as defined IN our Contracts, must cor
sist Of
"a man und his wife, with or without c!.l.
dren."
a widower with two or more children; il
males under II years of age, if females uumar-
red."
''A widow with two Or more children; If males
under II years of age, if females unmarried"
1.-Two single men the age Of seventeen
yenrs, each one heing entitled to I6O acres"
On his arrival in the Co!ony. the Emigranr
should forthwith apply to the agent of the Com
pany, Mr.. Henry o. Hedgcoxc, residing nj Ste.
wlrtsviIle in Denton county, who will al all times
be ready 10 assis, him in the selection of his
land, and enter The books kept for that
purpose, AID give him certificate thereof. which
certificate will be evidence of his having settled
in the Colony in due time.
Our Grant lies in tho North. Eastern part Of
Texas, between the 32d and 34th degrees Of L1t-
i,ude North. and 10Th and 22l degrees Of Longi-
tude West. from Washington; beginning on The
south side Of REQ river. at point - mics east
of the False Ouachiita. running thence due South
100 miles, thence East lf4 miles, thence North
100 miles. thence West l6i miles 10 the begin
ming. leaving a front on the meanderings of Red
river Of nearly 500 miles; and includes within its
limits the Upper and Lower Cross Tmbers, aud
the head waters Of the Brosos and Trinity rivers.
the Trinity being navisable for steamboats, Of
light draught, from tho interior Of tho Colony to
the Gulf Mexico into which II cmPties some 25
miles from Galveston, and Rcd river, 10 the Mis-
sissippi. affordng an outlet for the surplus pro-
ductons of the country. This portion of Texas
is peculiarly. adapted TO the growth of wheat en-
perience within the last Two years having tested
tho fact, that it will produce 40 bushels 10 tho
acre, weighing 65 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. aud the
celebrated muskeet grass which covers the prai-
ries and upon which cattle subSst. and keep FAT
during the winter, and require only TO be occa.
sionalIy saltcd and Kept together, they rear them
in great numbers.
The planting season commences in Febfuary
and continues until July; but the early crops are
most productive. Emigrants should 90 on in the
fall or winter TO be ready 10 put III an early
crop. Those going from Missouri. Iowa. Wiscon-
should 90 through Missouri or Arkansas 10 VAN
BUREN. Fl. Smith, Fl. Towsou, Coffee Station
Pine Bluff. thence into the settlements IN the
direction of the Forks Of the Trinity. Those
going from other sections of the Union, south,
should 90 to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phiS, Tenn. or Natchez, Miss, and thence aero
by land; or to New Orleans, and thence by steam
boat up Red river TO Shreveport, Louisiana, ut
which place an agent will be stationed, who will
land 10 Dallas and SIewarisviIle, distance Of
some 200 miles.
Our colony is rapidly filing up with an indus.
trious, intelligent and moral people, and must
become tie most populous part Of Texas
The Government has recently formed the cor. n
ties Of Grayson, Dallas Denton, Collin, AID ;
part of Robertson and Navarro within the Grant
1t is decidedly the most healthy part Of ne State
the lands having gently undnlatlng surface -
there are no ponds, swanips mar shes, and II:
local cause E.r disease The atm osphere is pur,
and pleasant During The wa rnest months @
summer there is il constant l,reeze PLAYING Owe
the praries, and. the nighrs arc invariably cool
the thermometer never rses over IS 10 90, an
in tho winter never fo lis below 80 degrees Fab
renhet. 1t abounds in springs, and at she dept
of fifteen or twenty feet, in tho midst of the prai
re, the best ater can be had; all the sma
streams are recuiarIy clear and crystal-liae.-
Colonel William Myers Who removed there from
Garrard county. Ky, last fail, says, in a loilc
dated 9Th May. lS47,-"l will not venture to Tel
my friends 10 Kentucky that the land hero was bet
te1 than the best land in Kentucky. because the
: would not believe it; but now assert it, for tn
soil is deeper, being in many places five feet. an
the kndest land to work ever put plough in.-
| verify believe that around the forks OF tho Fri
nity, lies the largest body of irsi-rale land i
America.p From the forks of Trinity TO SAINT
Fe.. isaonly about 600 miIes.by the old Spanis
trail, nnd tho newspapcrs in Texas are now AT
vocating Tho route up the Trinity, and from i
forks by ands as inevery respect preferable
tine one by independence, Mo. Why should En-
grants think of going TO Oregon or Cslifnrp,