Tri-weekly journal., 1847-10-05
TEXAS EMIGRATION AND
l. AND COM p AN Y.
800 Acres of Land for $2O""16O
Acres Of Land for $40!

ACTCS vi Ldllu IUI QlU'
TIME TEXAS EMIGRATION AND LAND COMPANY hav-
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 18th February, 1871 and 10th January, 1913,
granting lands TO Emigrants, will continue to give
800 OF land TO families, and l6O OF land to
single II years of age, until the lst day of
July, lS1S conditioned that the family shall pay 500
and the single man $40, for the surveying fees A
family, defined in our Contracts, must consist Of
"A man and his wife, with or without children"
"a wdower with two or more children; ii males
under IL years OF age. if females unmarried"
A widow with two more children; if males I'M
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 o. Hedgcoxe, residing at Sewartsville IN Den
ton county who will at all times be ready to assist
him in the selection of his land, and enter the same
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 NORTHEASTERN part of Texas
between the 32nd and Bath degrees OF Latitude North
and 10Th and 22nd degrees OF Longitude West, from
Washington beginning on the south side OF Red Riv
er, at point II miles east OF the False Ouachltta
running thence due South 100 miles, thence East l64
miles, thence North 100 miles, thence West l64 miles
20 the beginning, having front OH the meanderings
ofRed River OF nearly 800 miles, and includes with,
in its limits the upper and lower Cross Iimbers, and
the head waters OF the Brasos and Trinity Rivers the
Trinity being navigabe for Steamboats, of light
draught, from the interior OF the Colony to the Gulf
OF Mexico into which it empties, 25 miles from
Galveston, and Red River to the Mississippi, afford
ing 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, that it will produce 40
bushels the acre, weighing % to 20 pounds TO the
bushel. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet and
Irish potatoes, peas, beans, melons, garden vegetables
OF all kinds cotton, hemp and tobacco, and the cele-
brated mskeet grass which covers the prairies and
upon which cattle subsst, and keep fat during the
winter and require only TO beoccasionaly sailed and
kept together, TO rear them in great numbers
The planting season commences in February and
continues until Juy but the early crops pro-
ductive: Emgrants should 90 in the fall or win
ter to be ready to put in an early crop Those
going from Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the nor
then parts of Illinois and Indiana, should 90 through
Missouri Arkanzas to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort
Towson, Cofees Station or Pine Bluff, thence into
the settlements III the direction OF the forks OF the
Trinity Those going from other sections of the I'm
ion, south, should go TO Helena Columbia, Ark,
Memphis, Tenn, or Natchez, Miss, and thence
across by land; or TO New Orleans, and thence by
Steamboat up Red River Shreveport Louisiana, at
which place agent will be stationed, who will give
the emigrants directions TO their route by land to
Dallas and Stewartsve, distance OF some 200 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an Industrious
intelligent and moral people, and must soon become
the most popuous 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 unduating
surface; thereare ponds, swamps or Marshes and
no local cause for disease. The atmosphere IS pure
and pleasant During the warnest months OF sum
there is n constant breeze playing the prair-
les, and the nights invariably COOL the thermom-
oter never rises above 50 30, and in the winter new
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 water be had all
the small streams peculiarly clear and crystal like.
Colonel William Myers, who removed there from
GarTard County, KY, last fall says, in letter dates
9Th May lSl7-l will not venture to tell my friendd
in Kentucky that the land here better than the
best land in Kentucky, because they would not be-
leve it; but now assert it, for the soil is deeper,
being in many places five feet, and the kindes land
10 work ever put plough in. verify believe that
around the forks OF the Trinity lies the largest body
of trst-rate land in America From the forks OF
Trinity TO Santa te is ony about 600 miles by the old
Spanish TRAIL and the newspapers in Texas are now
advocating the route up the Trinity and from forks
by land, in every respect preferable to the by
independence, Mo- Why should Emigants think Of
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 on the continent of America of getting lands FOL
the mere 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 si
or seven months in the year; there he will have
home market for all the surplus he can produce TO
years come, and with industry and economy, speed
lily become rich
Let no Emgrant loose sight of the important fac
that our contracts with the Government of Texas ex
pire on the day of July, 1873 and that he
only be in the Colony but that he must have selected
land, buita house or cabin thereon, and be resid
ing therein with his family by that day;--one day at
Ter thpt date and the opportunity of getting lands TO
nothing is, perhaps, lost for Persons desrin
additional Information, by addressing the undersign
ed Trustees either of them, post paid, shall receiv
prompt attention.
WILLIS STEWART Trustees ofhe
JOHN J. SMITH, Teras Emigration
VIC. PETERS, \ and Ldnd CompaR1
LOUISVILLE. SEPT. lST, lSl7.--Sep. 4-lm.
..n TAYLOR HALL