Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-11-30
Texas Emigration & Land Company.
$50 .4eres Of land for S2O!-l60 .aeres of
land for SiO!

n VHE TEXAS EMGRAIIoN AND LAND CoAPaxT
having derived their Grant from The has
Republic OF Texas, by contracts made WIN The
Presidert Thereof. under authority of the tfec iaf
acts of Congrtss, approved 4ta February, 1917
and 10th January, lS43, granting lands Emf
nIan;s, will continue To give 32e acres of land
iamilie7, ami l6n acres OF land 70 single mea
over IL years of age, until the LIST day of JulT,
1913, conditioned, that the family shall pay S2D,
AMI the single man $40, for the surveying fees -
A family, as defined in our contracts, mist con.
sist Of s. 80. .- rra
"a man an hiswfe.with,or without children''
ga wIdower with two or more children, il
males under IL years Of age, IL females unmaT.
ried."
"a widow with two or mere childred; II malrs
under Ia years Of nge, if females, unmarried +"
"Fwo single men over the age of seVentesn
years, each one being entitled TO l6O acres"
On his arrival in the Colony, the Emigr1nt
/ s1nuld forthwith apply to the agent of the Com
pany, Mr.. Henry y. HsdgccXe, residing at Stew
artSville in Dentnn county, who will at aH 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; whjeis
certificate will be evidence Of his having settled
ia the Colony ia due time.
Our Grant lies in the NORTHEASTERN part Of
Texas. between the 32nd aud 9Th degrees Of
Latitude North, and 10 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 cue
south 100 miles. thence East 81 miles, ihencd
North ito miles, thence West l64 mile, ts the
beginning, having front OIL the meaHdcrings Of
Red River of nearly 800 miles; and includes
wlihin its limits the upper and lower Gross TIM
hers, and the head waters of the Brasaseand Trn.
ity Rivers, the Trinity being navigable for Steam
Boats of light draugh:, from the interior Of the
OsONV n he GulG of infO vvhin a
lies, some % miles from Galveston, and Red Riv-
er, to the Mississippi, affording outlet fer tho
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 foct that j. will produce 40 bushels
b" the acre, weighing 65 to ~ pounds on the
bushe'. Indian cor,i, rye, barley, oats, sweeI
and Irish potatoes, peas, beans, melons garden
vesetabI? OF all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated mnskest grass which covers
The prairIes and upon which cattle subssi, and
keep fat during The winter, and re luirs only to
be OCCASIONALLY salted and kept together, to rsai
them III great numbers. -
The planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
the most productive. kmgrants should 20 on In
the fall OF winter, so as 10 oe ready to put IN an
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin and northern parts Of Illino 9 and In
diana, should go through Missouri or Arkansas
to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson, Cofee's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
III the direction of the forks oftho Trinity. These
going from other sections of The Union, south,
should go TO Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phi=, Tenn. or Nalchez, Miss. and thence acrosA
by land or to New Orleans az thence by Ste am
Boat up Red River To Shreveport, Louisiana, 1t
which place agent will be stationed, VINO will
give emi grants directions to their route by land
TO Dallas anf Stewartsvil'e, distance Of somt
80 miles es ., .r5t-
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indas
tTious, intelligent and moral people and must
snon become the most popu!ols part OF fsxas.
The government has recently formed the countieS
of Grsyson, Dallas, Denton, Collin and a part
of Robertson aud Navarro within the Grant. L.
is decidedly the most healthy of the state ths
lands having having gentle undulatng surface:
there are no ponds, swanps or ar-hes, and
local cause FOR disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months Of
summer there is a constant breeze playing over
che prairies, aud the nights are invariably cool;
the Thermometer never rises above IS n 80, and
Ia the winter never falls below 30 degrees Fan
rehheit. IL aboGnds in Springs, aud at the depth
OF fifteen or twenty feet in the midst Of the prai.
re, the best water can be had; all d small
streams peculiarly clear and crystal Iika -
ColOusl William Myers who removed from Gar
ard county, Ky, iast fall, says in letter dated
9th Nav, lS7-"I VI i'll not venture 70 tell my
friends in Kentucky that the land here was better
than the best land IN Kena~ky, bsrause they
would not believe il; but now assert 10, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places five fset
and the kindest land Id work | ever put plough
in. verify believe that around the forks of the
Trinity. lies tie largest body Of rst-rate land in
Amsnca.n From tae forks OF the Trinity 20
Santa Fe, is only 69J miles by the old Spanish
trail aud The newspapers in Texas are nov adSo.i
eating the route up The Trinity, and from ils forks
by land, as in every resi- ect preferable To the
by Independence, Mo- Why shnuld emigrants
think of going to Oregon or California whsn they
obtain better laud Tor nothing, so much near
er home!
This is, perhaps the last opportunity thatwiIi
ever offer OIL The continent OF America Of getting
Iunds fer the msre cost of surveys aud cost Of
deeds. Our Colony is enphatically the place
Tor the poor mans home there he does NOT have
"a feed his cattls tor six or seven months in ths
year; there he will have a home market for all
the surplus he can produce for years TO colns,aRd
with Industry and economy, speedily become rich.
Let no Emigrant lose sight of the important fast
that our contracts with the Government of Texas
expire on the lst day OF July, 1913, and thai he
must not only be IN the Colony, bur that he must
have selected his land, built house or cabin
thereon, and be residing therein with his family
s by that day one day after that date, and tho
opportunity Of getting lands for nothing is, per.
haps, lost for ever. Persons desiring adcfionaI
information, BY addressing the undersigned Frus-
lees OF either of them, post paid, shall receive
promp. atrention. essr - gssii
WILLIS STEWART, Trustees q TIE
I Won c. P PrIr saq End cSssD.
Louisvilles Sept. lst ie47.