Tri-weekly journal., 1847-10-16
TEXAS EMIGRATION AND
L AND COM p A Y i.
800 Acres Of Land for $2O""16O
Acres of Land for $40!


TINE TEXAS EMIGRATION AND LAND COMPANY hav
ing derived their Grant from the late Republic OF
Texas BY contracts made with the President thereof
under authority of the special acts OF Congress, APP
granting lands to Emigrants, will continue to give
800 acres of land to nmies and loo acres OF land TO
single men IL years OF age until the LIST day OF
July l64S conditioned, that the family shall pay 500
and the single man $40, for the surveying fees. A
family, defined in our Contracts, must consist Of
"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"
- 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 100 acres"
On his arrival in the Colony, the Emigrant should
forthwith apply to the agent of the Company, Mr..
Henry O. Hedgcoxe residing Stewartsville in Den
ton county who will at all times be ready assist
him in the selection ohis land and enter the same on
books kept for that purpose, and give NINA cercate
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,
between the SIND and 34th degrees OF Latitude North
and 18th and 22nd degrees OF Longitude West from
Washington; beginning the south side OF Red Xiv
er, point u miles east OF the False Ouachitta,
running thence due South 100 miles, thence East l64
miles, thence North 100 miles, thence West l64 miles
to the beginning having front the meanderings
of Red River Of nearly 800 miles; and includes with
ints limits the upper and lower Cross Ilmbers, and
the mead waters OF the Brasos and Trinity Rivers the
draught from the interior OF the Colony to the Cult
of Mexico into which it emptes some % miles from
Galveston and Red River, to the Mississippi, afford
ing an 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 1t viii produce 40
bushels the acre. weighing 90 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
braied muskee grass which covers the prairies and
upon which cattle subsist, and keep fat during the
winter and require only TO be occasionally sailed and
kept together, 10 rear 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 so be ready to put in an early CROP Those
going from Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the nor
thern parts of Illinois and Indiana should through
Missouri or Arkansas to Van Buren, Fort Smith, Fort
Towson, Cofees Station or Pine Bluff, thence into
the settlements in the direction OF the forks OF the
Trinity. Those going from other sections OF the Un-
ion, south, should go 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 TO their route by land TO
Dallas and Stewartsvie, distance OF 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 undulang
surface; there ponds, swamps or marshes, and
no local cause for disease. The atmosphere Is pure
and pleasant During the warmest months of sum-
mer there constant breeze playing over the pralr-
les and the nights invariably cook the thermom-
eter rises above 50 TO go and IN the winter new
er falls below 30 degrees Fahrenheit 1t abounds in
springs, and at the depth of fifteen twenty feet, IN
the midst of the prairie, the best water can be had all
the small streams are peculiarly clear and crystal IKE
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 trendd
in Kentucky that the land here was better than the
best land in Kentucky, because they would not be-
lieve it, but now / assert 1t, for the soil Is deeper
being many places five feet, and the kindest land
to work ever put plough in. verify believe thai
around the forks of the Trinity, lies the largest body
of frst-rate land in America From the forks Of
Trinity Santa Fe is only about GOO miles by the old
Spanish TRAIL and the newspapers in Texas are now
advocating the route the Trinity and from Its forks
by land, in every respect preferable to the one by
independence, Mo. Why should Emgrants think o.
going to Oregon or California when they can Obtain
better land for nothing, so much nearer homel
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will eve
offer the continent of America of getting lands fol
the cost of surveys and cost OF deeds. Our Col
ony is emphatically the place for the poor man:
home there he does not have to feed his cattle for sl
or seven months in the year; there he will have
home market for all the surplus he produce fol
years to come and with industry and economy, speed
lily become rich.
i Let no Emigrant loose sight of the important fac
that our contracts with the Government OF Texas ex
pre on the st day of July. lS4S, and that he
only be in the Colony but that he must have selected
his land, built house cabin thereon, and be resid
ing therein with his family by that day;--one day al
ter that date, and the opportunity of getting lands fol
nothing is perhaps, lost for Persons desiring
additional information, by addressing the undersign
ed Trustees either of them, post paid shall receive
prompt attention.
u WILLIS STEWART Trustees Of the
JOHN J. SMITH, Tsrds Emigration
i VIC. PETERS, and Land Company
j LOUISVILLE. SEPT lsT, 1s47.-sep. l4-lm
A GOOD CHANCE FOR A PHYSICIAN.