Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-10-26
Texas Emigration & Land Company.
800 .4cres Of land for S20!-l6O .4eres of
land for $40!

land for $40!
y NHE TEXAS EMIGRATIoN AND LAND COMPANY
having derived their Grant from the late
Republic OF Texas, by contracts made with the
President therol, under authority of the special
acts of Congress, approved Alta February, lSil
and 10th January, lS43, granting lands TO Emil
nan;s. will continue to give 32p acres of land 20
families, and l60 acres Of lnnd to single men
over II years of age, until the LIST day of July,
1913, conditioned, that the family shall pay S2G,
and the single man $40, for the surveying fees -
A family, as defined in our contracts, mist con-
sist Of
ga man an hiswife. with.o without children"
CA wIdower with two or more children, il
males under IL years OF age, il females unmar-
ried."
ga widow with two more childred; if males
under Il years of nge, if females, unmarried"
'sTwo single men over the age of seventeen
years, each one being entitled TO l6O acres"
On his arrival III the Colony, tho Enigrant
should forthwith apply to the agent of the Com
pany, MIR. Henry .. Hedgcoxe, residing al Stew
artsville 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 seIt ed
10 the Colony III due time.
Our Grant lies in tho NORTHEASTERN part of
'TeKns, between the 32nd and Gath degrees of
Latitude North, and IS and p degrees Of Lon
gtude West, from Washington; beginning on the
south side of Red River, at point II miles cast
of the False Ouachtta, running thence due
outh 100 miles. thence East "a miles, thence
North 100 miles, thence West l64 miles 10 the
beginning, having front OIL the meandcrings of
Red River of nearly 300 miles; and includes
within its limits the upper and lower Gross Tim
bers, and the head waters OF The Brasas .and Trn-
lty Rivers, the Trinity being navigable for Steam
Boats of light dTaugh:, from the interior of the
Colony 10 the Gulf of Mexico into which il emp
ties, some Is miles from Galveston. and Red Riv-
er, to the Mississippi, afording 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 il will produce 10 bushels
| 10 the acre, weighing Is to 70 pounds the
oushel. Indian cori, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and Irish potatoes, peas, beans, melons garden
vegetable of all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated muskeet grass which covers
the prairles and upon which cattle subsist, and
keep fat during the winter, and re luire only TO
BE- occasionally sailed and kept together, to rear
them in great numbers.
Tbs planting season commences i'll February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
the most productive. Emi grants should go on in
the fall Or winter. so 10 be ready to put III All
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin and northern parts of Illino and In.
diana, should go through Missouri or Arkansas
to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort TOwson. Coffse's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
i'm the direction of the forks oftho Trinity. These
going from other sections OF the Union, south,
should go to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phs, Tenn. or NatcheZ, Miss, land thence across
by land; or to New Orleans al thence By Ste am
Boat up Red River to Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place an agent will be stationed, VINO will
give eingrants directions to their route by land
to Dallas AMI Stewartsvile, distance Of some
300 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indus
tEious, intelligent and moral people and must
SOON become the most populoas part of Texas -
The Government has recently forme / the counties
of Grsyson, Dallas, Denton, Collin aud a part
of Robertson and Navarro within the Grant. 1t
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 for disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant During the warmest months of
summer there is constant breeze playing over
;he prairies, and the nights are invariably cool
the Thermometers never rises above IS to 80, and
in tie winter never falls below 80 degrees Fab
renheit IL abounds in springs, aud al the depth
of fifteen twenty feet, in the midst OF the prai-
RE, the best water can be had; all lie small
streams are peculiarly clear and crystal like -
Colonel William Myers who removed from Car
.aLu county, n.y., IaSt l1ls says III q A01eeA u0ecu
Sth May, lS47-"I will not venture to tell my
friends la Kentucky that the land here was better
than the best land in Kenturky, because they
would not believe it, but now assert II, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places FIVE feet
and the kndesI land to work ever put plough
in. Iverily believe that around the forks of the
Trinity. lies the largest body Of frstrate land in
Amenca.n From the forks OF the Trinity to
Santa Fe, is only 600 miles by the old Spanish
trail and the newspapers in Texas are now advo-
eating the route up the Trinity ,and from It's forks
by land, as in every resi- preferable to the one
by Independence, Mo. Why should amigrants
think of going to Oregon or California when they
can obtain better land for nothing, so much near
or home?
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever offer OIL the continent Of America OF getting
| Iands for the mere cost Of surveys and cost OF
deeds. Our Colony is emphatically the place
| for the poor mans home: there he does not have
| TO feed his cattle for six or months in the
year; there he will have home market for all
| the surplus he can produce for years TO e,and
| with industry and economy, speedily become rich.
Let no Emigrant lose sight of the important fact
that our contracts with the Government of Texas
expire on the LIST day of July, lS4S, and thai he
must not only be IN the Colony, but that he must
| have selected his land, built house or cabin
thereon, and be residing therein with his family
by that day;-one day after that date, and the
opportunity Of getting lands for nothing is, per-
haps, lost for ever. Persons desiring additional
information, by addressing the undersigned Trus-
tees or either of them, post paid, shall receive
prompt attention.
JONI !. SMITH. 1sras Emisr ali
w. T.. Peters, J and Lind Company
Louisville, Sept. LIST lS47.
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