Tri-weekly journal. (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1847-188?, 1847-10-07
TEXAS EMIGRATION AND
L AND COM p A N Y
800 Acres Of Land for $2O".16O
Acres Of Land for $40!


IL 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
proved 4th February, lSil and 10th January, lS43
granting lands to Emigrants, will continue to give
800 OF land to families and 100 acres of land to
single men over II years of age until the LIST day of
July 1913, conditioned, that the family shall pay 800
and the single man $40, for the surveying fees A
family as defined in our Contracts must consist Of
"A man and his wife, with or without children"
"A widower with two or more chlldren II males
under II years OF age, If females unmarried"
"A widow with two or more children; II males I'M
der IL years of age, If females, unmarried"
"Two single men 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 Stewartsville in Den
ton county, who will at all times be ready to assist
him i'll the selection ofhs land, and enter the same on
books kept for that purpose, and give him certificate
Therefore which certificate will be evidence OF his nav
ing settled in the Colony in due time.
Our Grant lies in the North Eastern part OF Texas,
between the 32nd and 34th degrees of Latitude North
and 18th and 22nd degrees OF Longitude West, from
Washington beginning the south side Of Red Riv-
er, at point IL miles east OF the False Ouachltta,
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 meanderings
ofRed River Of nearly 800 miles; and includes with
in its limits the upper and lower Cross lmbers, and
the head waters of the Brasos and Trinity Rivers the
Trinity being navigable for Steamboats, OF light
draught from the interior of the Colony to the Gulf
of Mexico into which it empties, some % miles from
Galveston, and Red River TO the Mississippi, afford
ing an outlet for the surplus productions Of the
try This portion OF Texas is peculiarly adapted to
the growth OF wheat, experience within the last two
years having tested the fact, the; 1t will produce 40
bushels 10 the acre. weighing 81 10 20 pounds to the
bushel. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet and
Irish potatoes peas beans, melons, garden vegetables
fall kinds cotton, hemp and tobacco, and the cee
braied muskeet grass which covers the prairies and
upon which cattle subsist, and keep fat during the
winter and require only occasionally sailed and
kept together to them in great numbers
The planting season commences In February and
continues until July but the early crops pro-
ductivc: Emigrants should go on in the fall win
ter, so to be ready 10 put IN an early crop Those
going from Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the nor
thern parts of Illinois and Indiana, should go through
Missouri or Arkansas Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort
Towson, Cofiee's Station Pine Bluff, thence into
the settlements in the direction of the forks of the
Trinity. Those going from other sections OF the I'm
ion, south, should go TO Helena or Columbia, Ark,
Memphis, Tenn, or NatcheZ, Miss, and thence
across by land; to New Orleans, and thence by
Steamboat up Red River to Shreveport Louisiana, at
which place agent will be stationed who will give
the emigants directions TO their route by land to
Dallas and Sewartsvie, 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 unduang
no local cause for disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months OF sum-
mer there is constant breeze playing the prair-
les, and the nights invariably cool; the thermom-
eter rises above IS TO 60 and in the winter
or 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 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, lSl7,-l willnot venture to tell my trendd
in rEv hat hara hiatt thor,t hf
best land in Kentucky, because they would not be-
eve it, but now assert 1t, tor the soil is deeper
being in many places five feet and the kindest land
work ever put plough in. / verify believe thai
around the forks of the Trinity lies the largest body
of trst-rate land in America" From the forks o.
Trinity Santa Fe is only about GOO miles by the ole
Spanish TRAIL and the newspapers in Texas are now
advocating the route up the Trinity and from its fork
by land, in every respect preferable to the by
Independence, Mo. Why should Emigrants think o
going to Oregon or California when they 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 70
the mere cost of surveys and cost OF deeds Our Col
ony is emphatically the place for the poor man.
homes there he does have to feed his cattle for
months in the year; there he will have
home market for all the surplus he can produce 70
years TO come and with industry and economy speed
Let no Emigrant loose sight of the important fac
that contracts with the Government of Texas ex
pire the LIST day of July, S46 and that he must
only be in the Colony, but hat he must have selece
hisand, built house cabin thereon and be resid
ing therein with his family by that day;--one day a
ter that date, and the opportunity OF getting lands C
nothing IS perhaps, lost for ever Persons deslrin
additional information, by addressing the undersigT
ell Trustees or either OF them, post paid shall receiy
prompt attention.
WILLIS STEWART Trustees efMs
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