Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-09-25
$40 Acres of Land for $50 LEO Acres for SO

TJNHE 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 of Congress- approved Febr-
airy, 1S4 and 10th January, is4S granting to emil
100 OF land single years of
until the 1t day OF july s4s, that the family
shall pay $50 and the single man $lo for the surveying
amy, as defined IN our contracts, must consist Of
:. :. man and his wife, with or without children
widower with two or mere children; if males under IL
years OF age II females unmarried
GA widow with two chldren if males under IL
years OF age if females unmarried.
Two single the age of IL years, each being
entitled to 16O acres"
On his arrival in the colony the emgrant should forthwith
residing Stewartsville in Denton county who will al ali
Tunes be ready to assist him in the selection of his land
enter he same on books kept for that purpose and give him
having settled in the colony in due time.
Our grant lies in the northeastern part of Texas
the SD aud Saith degrees OF latitude north 10Th 22d
degrees of longitude from Washington beginning on the
south side Of Red river point IL miles Of the False
Ouachta running thence due south 100 miles
l64 miles thence north 100 miles, thence west i64 miles to
the beginning leaving front the meanderings of Red river
OF nearly $40 niles and includes within its limits the upper
and lower Cross Tmbers and the head of the Braos
and Trinity rivers, the Trinity being navgable steamboats,
OF light draught from the interior the colony Gulf of
Mexico into which emptes 25 miles Galveston
and Red river the Mississippi aorng an outlet for the
surplus productions Of the country This portion of Texas is
peculiarly adapted to the growth Of wheat xnerence within
the last years having the fact that il will produce
forty bushels to the weighing sxfve seventy pounds
to the buhe Indian corn barley, OATS Irish
cotton hemp and tobacco and the celebrated muskeet
which the prsres and upon which susst and
keep TAT during the winter and require only
saed and kept together to them 10 great numbers
The planting in February continues
grants should go in the fall winter SO as to be ready 10
put in early crop Those going from Missouri Iowa. Wis
consn and the northern parts of Illinois and Indiana should
60 through Missouri Arkansas Van Buren, Fort Smith,
Fort Towson Coee's Station Pine Bluff thence into the
settlements in the direction of the Forks Trinity Those
going from other sections Union south should 20 to He
lena Columbia, Arkansas, Memphis Tennessee or Nat
chez Mississippi and thence land or to New Or
leans and by steamboat up Red river 10 Shreyepor
Louisiana, at which place agent will be stationed who will
give the emgrants directions route by land to Dali
las and stewartsve, a distance of some zoo niles
Our colony rapidly filling up with an Industrious inte
gent and moral people, and become the popu
ious of Texas The Government recently formed The
counties of Grayson, Dallas, Denton Collin and mart of
Robson and Navarro within the grant 1t is decidedly the
most healthy part of the State the having gently und
m surface mere are no ponds swamp or marshes and
SAINT During the warmes months of there con-
slant breeze playing the pares and the nights are
yaraby cool the thermometer rises above
and in the winter falls below degrees Fahrenheit IL
abounds in springs and at the depth of fifteen twenty feet
the midst the prairie the best water can be had all the
small streams are peculiarly clear and crystal like Colonel
William Myers, who removed there Garrard county
Kentucky, last fall says in letter dated sh Nav 1847
will not venture to tell friends Kentucky that the land
here was better than the best in Kentucky they
would not believe but now il for the soil is deep
err being IN many places i've feet and the kudcst
ever put plough in verify believe around the Forks
the Trinity lies the largest body Of rs-rate land
rica From the Forks OF Trinity Santa Fe is only
GOO miles by the old Spanish TRAIL and the newspapers
Texas are now advocating the up the Trinity from
ITS forks by land as IN every respect preferable the by
Independence, Missouri why should emigrant think GO
ing to Oregon California when they obtain better land
for nothing much nearer home
lh' u.s. perhaps, the last opportunity that will offer
the continent OF America getting lands for the OF
surveys and cost OF deeds Our colony is emphatcay the
place Tor the poor mans home there he does feed
his cattle tor SIX or months the year there he will
have home market for all surplus he produce for
years TO come, aud with industry and economy speedily be-
rich.
Let no emigan lose sight of tie important fact that our
contracts with the Government OF Texas expire the day
july lS4S and that he not only be in e colony, but
that he must have selected his land built house cabin
thereon, aud be residing therein with his family by that day
one day after that date aud the opportunity getting lands
nothing perhaps lost forever Persons desiring additional
maton by addressing undersigned trustees either OF
them, postpaid, shall receive prompt attention.
WILLIS STEWART,
JOHN j. SMITH,
w. G.. PETERS,
Trustees Of the Texas Emigration and Land CO.