Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-12-28
Texas Emigration & Land Company,
$40 .9eres Of land for S2O!-l60 .4cres OF
land for $40!

VIE TEXAS EMIGRATION AND LAND COMPANY
Il having derived their Grant from the late
Republla OF Texas, by contracts made with the
FFesInert ther0i. under authority of the special
acts OF Congress, approved Atm February, sSlI
ara 10Th January, lS43, granting lands to Emf
hian,s' VIII continue To give $50 acres OF land %
families, and 100 acres of land to single mon
nver II years of age, until the LIST day of july.
io4o, conditioned, that The fnmily shall pay see
AMI the single man Sl0 for The surveying fess -
family, as defined in our contracts, mist con-
sist Of u, ~ - -.
"a man an hiswfe. with. or without children -
~ wtdower with two or more children, if
males under IL years of agc, if females unmar-
redp
"a widow with two or mere childred: if males
under Il years of "ge, if females, unmarried -
Two single men over the ago of seventeen
years, each one being entitled 10 l60 acres"
On his arrival III the Colony, the Emigr1nt
should forthwith apply to the agent of the Com
pany, MIR. Horny 0. Hedgcoxe, res ding at Stew
artsVie in Denton county, who will at all times
be ready TO assist him in the selection of his land
and enter the same on books kept for that pur
pose, and give him certificate therefor; which
certificate will be evidence Of his having ss!tled
III the Colony in due time. ea
Our GRANTEES III the NORTHEASTERN part of
Texas. between the 32nd and 34th degrees Of
Latitude North, and 10 and % degrees OF Lon
gitude West, from Washington; beginning on the
south side OF Red River, at point IL miles east
of the False OuashiIta, running thence due
South 100 miles. thence East I64 miles, thence
North IU0 miles, thence West l64 miles to th.
beginning, having trout OIL the meandcrings of
Red River of nearly 300 miles; and includes
within its limits the upper and lower Cross Tim
bers and tns head waters of the Brasas:and Trim.
| lty Rivers, the Trinity being navigable for Steam
Boats OF light draugh:, from the :nteI:or of the
Colony 10 the Gulf of Mexico into which il emp
| ties, some % miles from Galveston, md Red Riv-
er, TO the Mississippi, affording an outlet fer the
| surplus productions of the country. This portion
OF Texas is peculiarly adapted to the growth of
wheat, experience within the last two years hav-
ing tested the fact, that i. will produce 40 bushels
TO the acre, weighing Is to 10 pounds on the
6ushe'. Indian cor,I, rye, barley, oats, sweet
| ana irish potatoes, peas, beans, malons garden
vegetable OF all kinds cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated muskeet grass which covers
The prairles and upon which cattle subsisl, and
keep fat during The winter, and re iuire only 10
be occasionally salted and kept together, to real
them in great numbers.
Ihs planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but tho early crops are
the most PRODUCTIVE. fcngrants should 20 on in
the fall u winter, so as to DO ready to put III all
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin and northern parts CT Illino and In.
dana, should go through Missouri or Arkansas
to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson, COffee's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
i'll the direction Of the forks oftho Trinity. These
going from other sections of tho Union, sou,a,
should go To Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
ph', Tenn, or Na,chez, Mics. ,ond thence across
by land; or TO New Orleans al d thence by Ste am
Boat up Red River to Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place an agent will be stationed, VINO will
give einigrants directions to their route by land
TO Dallas ami StewarGsviile, a distance OF som,
800 miles Fi Nstsr.. ..s.L2.H .s.t 10,
Our colony is rapidly filing up with an ndus
t;ious. intelligent and moral people and mus.
soon become the most popuous part of Texas
The government has recently forne / the counter
of GrVyson, Dallas, Denton, Collin and n part
OF Robertson and Navarro within the Grant. II
is decidedly the most healthy of the stae,tA
lands having having "a gentle unduiatng surface;
there are no ponds, swanps or mar-hes, and no
local cause ior disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant During the waTnest months OF
summer there is a constant breeze playing over
she prairies, and the nights are Invariably cool;
the thermometer never rises above 80 to 80, and
in tile wintsr never falsbelow 80 degrees Fab
renheit. II aboGnds in springs, aud at the depth
of fifteen OF twenty feet, il the midst Of the pra-
RE, tas best water can be had; all lie small
streams nTe peculiarly clear and crystal like -
CoioneI William Myers who removed from Gao
gard county, Ky, last fall, snysih letter dated
9th Nav, IS47-tI will not venture 10 tell Try
friends in Kentucky that the land here was better
than the best land in Kentucky, because they
would not believe it; but now assert it, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places FIVE feet
ami the kiudest land to work | ever put plough
IN. Iverily believe that around the forks of the
Trinity. lies the largest body Of irst-rOte land in
Amerlca.o From tae forks Of the Trinity to
santa Fe, is only 600 miles by tho old Spanish
trail aud the newspapers in Texas are now advo-
eating the route up the Trinity ,and from its forks
oy lands as in every rosT Get preferable to the one
oy Independence, No. Why should emigran,s
mink OF going to Oregon Or California when they
eau oo't,n Oetler land for nothing, so much near
or home? t9Ak s by - : -
This is, perhaps, the last Opportunity that wlIs
ever offer OIL the continent Of America of getting
| lands for the mere cost of surveys and cost Of
| deeds. Our Colony is emphatically the Mace
| for the pour mans home: .here he does nor have
20 feed hi; cattle for six or seven monshs in the
/ year; there ne will have home market for ALI
the surplus he can produce for years to come and
with industry and economy, speedily become rich.
Let no Emigrant lose sight of the important IA: Il
that our contracts with the Government of Texas
expire on the LIST day of July, lS4s, and that he
mu'f not only be IN the Colony, but that he must
nave selected his land, built Q house cabin
.hereon, and DE residing therein will, his family
oy that Gay ;-one day after that date, and the
opportunity OF getting lands for nothing is, PER-
haps, lost for ever. Persons dssirin, Sdn;tional
information, by addressing the undersigoed Trus.
tees or either of them, post paid, shall receivs
| prompt attention. Z,
5 %ls1 :. S sa1Tn, 7zs. 4'ss. ss
| w. c. PETERs, J and Land Conpnnu