Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-12-07
Texas Emigration s. Land Company

800 .4eres Of land for S20!-l60. .aeres Of
lana for $40!
| ~ NHE TEXAS EMIGRATIoN AND LAND COMPANY
| having derived their Grant from the late
Republic OF Texas, by contracts made with the
President Thereof. under authority of the special
acts of Congress, approved 4tR February, 1871
and 10th January, lS43, granting lands 10 Emil
nIan;s, will continue 10 give 800 acres OF itShd 70
families, and 100 acres Of land to single men
over IL years Of age, until the LIST day of July.
| 1913, conditioned, that the fnmily snail pay sou,
and the single man $40, for the surveying fees -
A family, as defined in our contracts, must con-
sist Of
"a man an hiswfe,w with, or without children, >,
"a wIdower with two or more children, if
males under II years Of age, il females unmar-
ried." -.
"a widow with TWO or more childred: If mal.s
under IL years Of age, if females, unmarried -
'sFwo single men over the age of seventeen
years, each one being entitled TO l6O acres :" .-
! On his arrival in the Colony, the EmIgrant
should forthwith apply 10 the agent of the Com
pany, Mr.. Henry .. Hedgccxe, residing al Stew
artsvllle 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 bur.
pose, and give him a certificate therefor; which
certificate will be evidence OF his having settled
| iG the Colony in due time. ..ra -.
| Our Grant lies i'll the NORTHEASTERN part of
| Texas, between the 32nd and 34lh degrees of
| Latitude North, and ~ and - degrees Of Lon
gitude West, from Washington; beginning on the
south side of Red River, at point IL miles east
! OF the False Ouachitta, running thence due
| South lO0 miles. thence East 81 miles, thence
North iU0 miles, thenco West l64 miles to tbs
| beginning, having front OH the meandcrings of
| Red River of nearly 300 miles; and includes
within its limits the upper and lower Cross Tim
bers, and the head waters Of the Brasas;and Trim
lty Rivers, the Trinity being avigable for Steam
| Boats OF light draugh:, from the inferior of the
| Colony 10 the Gulf of Mexico into which it emp
ties, some % miles from Galveston, and Red Riv-
er, to the Mississippi, afording All outlet for 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 j! will produce 40 bushels
10 the acre, weighing IS to 10 pounds on the
ousheI! Indian coru, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and Irish potatoes, peas, beans, meons garden
vegetable of all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated muskeet grass which covers
the praires and upon which cattle subsist, and
keep fat during the winter, and require only 10
be occasionally sailed and kept together, to real
them in great numbers. nl. ssegys.g
| Ihe planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
| the most productive. Emigrants should go on in
the fall or winter, so 10 De ready to put in all
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
I Wisconsin and northern parts of Illino and In
diana, 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 Those
going from other sections of The Union, south,
shuud go to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
| phs, Tenn, or Natchez, Miss. ,and 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 enigrants directions to their route by land
to Dallas AMI Stewartsvil!e, a distance of som:
300 miles e |
| Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indus
| tSious, intelligent and moral people and mus
soon become the most popueus part Of Texas
| The government has recently forme1 the countes
of Grsyson, Dallas, Deaton, Collin and part
of Robertson and Navarro within the Grant, II
is decidedly the most healthy part of the state, the
lands having having gentle undulating surface;
! there are no ponds, swamps or marines, and no
local cause Cor disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months of
summer there is a constant breeze playing over
.;he pralrles, and the nights are invariably cool
the Thermometer never rises above S5 TO 80, and
III the winter never falls below 80 degrees Fan
renheit. Ii abognds in Springs, aud at the depth
OF fifteen OF twenty feet, in the midst Of the pra-
RE, the best water can be had; all tie small
| streams peculiarly clear and crystal like II
Colonel William Myers who removed from Car
ard county, KY, last fall, says ii, letter dated
| 9Th Nav, l64T-"I will not venture To tell nv |
friends i'll Kentucky that the land here was better
than the best land in Kentucky, because they
would not believe il; but now l assert it, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places FIVE feet
| and the kindest land 10 work ever put plough
III. verify believe that around the forks of The
| -
| Amenca." From the forks Of the Trinity to
Santa Fe, is only Coz miles by the old Spanish
trail and the newspapers in Texas are now advo-
eating the route up the Trinity, and from its forks
by land, in every ros ect preferable to the one
by Independence, Mo. Why should emigranis
think Of going to Oregon or California when they
can obtain better land for nothing, SO much near
| er home? "''t"'' % !
| This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that win
ever offer Oh the continent of America OF getting
lunds for the mere cost of SURVEYS and cost OF
deeds. Our yolony is emphatically the place
for the poor mans home: there he does NOT ha We
20 Ieed MS cattls Tor six seven months in the
year; tlsre ne will have home market for all
the surplus he can produce for years 10 come and
with Industry and economy, speedily omerich.
Letno Emigrant lose sight of the important "a Il
that our contracts with the Government ofiTexas
expire on the LIST day of July, l845, and that he
must not only be IN the Colony, but that he must
have selected his land, built a house or cabin
| thereon, and be resding therein with his family
| by that day;-one day after that date, and the
i opportunity of getting lands for nothing is, per-
haps, lost for ever. Persons desiring additional
information, by addressing the Undersigned Trus-
tsss or either of them, post paid, snail receive
prompt attention.
Willis STEwART,l Trustees oftte
JOHN j. SMITH, Teras Emigration
/ W; z; PETsRs. and Lind Company,