Tri-weekly journal. (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1847-188?, 1847-09-30
TEXAS EMIGRATION AND
L A N ID COM Z A N Y
800 Acres of Land for $2O."16O
Acres of Land for $40!

TTNHE TEXAS EMIGRATION AND LAND COMPANY hav-
l. 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, ap
proved 4th February, 1871 and 10th January, 1913,
granting lands to Emigrans, will continue to give
$40 acres OF land to families and l60 of land to
single men over IL years of age until the LIST day of
July, 1913, conditioned that the family shall pay S20
and the single man $40, for the surveying fees. A
family, as defined in Contracts, must consist Of
"A man and his wife, with or without children"
"a widower with two or more children; II males
under II years OF age. if females unmarried
"A widow with two or more children; if males un
der IL 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 u Hedgcoxe, residing at Stewarsvllle IN Dem
ton county, who will at all times be ready to assist
him in the selection OF his land and enter the
books kept for that purpose and give him certificate
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 Send and 3ith 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 Ouachita,
running thence due South 100 miles, thence East 164
miles, thence North 100 miles, thence West l64 miles
10 the beginning, having front on the meanderings
OF Red River OF nearly 800 miles; and includes with
in its limits the upper and lower Cross Tmbers and
the head waters OF the Brasos and Trinity Rivers, the
Trinity being navigabe for Steamboats, OF light
from tne interior OF 10
OF Mexico into which it emptes, some % miles from
Galveston, and Red River, TO the Mississippi afford
ing 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 il will produce 40
bushels to the acre. weighing 65 TO 20 pounds to the
bnshel 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 muskeet grass which covers the praries and
upon which cattle subsist, and keep fat during the
winter and require only to be occasionally sailed and
kept together, to rear them in great numbers.
The planting season commences in February and
continues until July; but the early crops pro-
ductve: Emigrants should go on in the fall or win
ter, rs to be ready to put in early crop. Those
going from Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the
them parts of Illinois and Indiana, should go through
Missouri or Arkansas to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort
TOwson, Cotiees Station or Pine Bluff, thence into
the settlements in the direction of the forks of the
Trinity. Those going from other sections of the IN
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
which place agent will be stationed, who will give
the emigrants directions as to their route by land to
Dallas and Stewartsvie, distance of some 200 miles,
Our colony is rapidly filling up with Industrious,
intelligent and moral people, and must soon become
the most populous part Of Texas. The Government
has recently formed the counties OF GTayson, 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 undulatng
surface; are no ponds, swamps or marshes, and
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 are invariably COOL the thermom
eter rises above IS to go and in the winter
falls below 80 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, lSl-l will not venture to tell my friendd
in Kentucky that the land here was better than the
best land in Kentucky, because they would not be-
Ieve it, but now l assert it, for the soil is deeper,
being in many places five feet, and the kindes land
TO work ever put plough in | verify believe that
around the forks of the Trinity lies the largest body
of frst-rate land in America" From the forks OF
Trinity TO Santa Fe is ony about GOO miles by the old
Spanish TRAIL and the newspapers in Texas are now
advocating the route the Trinity and from its
Independence, Mo Why should Emigrants think Of
going to Oregon or California when they can obtain
better land for nothing so much nearer home!
This perhaps, the last opportunity that will eve
offer on the continent of America of getting lands toI
the cost of surveys and cost of deeds. Our Col
ony is emphatically the place for the poor mans
home there he does not have to feed his cattle for six
months in the year; there he will have q
home market for all the surplus he can produce fo
years to come and with industry and economy, speed
lily become rich.
Let no Emigrant loose sight Of the important fac
that our contracts with the Government OF Texas
pire the LIST day of July, 1913, 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 at
that date, and the opportunity of getting lands TO
nothing is, perhaps, lost for Persons desiring
additional information, by addressing the undersign
ed Trustees or either OF them, post paid shall receive
WILLIS STEWART Trustees etme
JOHN J. SMITH, Teras Emigration
VIC. PETERS, and Land Company
LOUISVILLE SEPT. lsT, lS47.-sep l4-lm