Tri-weekly journal., 1847-09-28
TEXAS EMIGRATION AND
l. AN ID COM p A N Y
800 Acres of Land for S2Om"16O
Acres Of Land for $40!

ETNlIE 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- APP
proved 4th February, 1871 and 10th January, 1913,
granting lands TO EmigTants will continue to give
800 of land families, and 100 of land
single men over years OF age, until the lst day OF
July, lS4S conditioned that the family shall pay S2o
and the single man $40, for the surveying fees. A
family, defined in our Contracts must consist Of
= man and his wife, with or without children
"A widoweF with two or more children; il males
under II years of age if females unmarried"
"Awidow with two more children; if males un-
der II years OF age, If females, unmarried"
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 .. Hedgcoxe, residing at Sewartsyille In Den
ton county, who will at all times be ready to assist
him in the selection OF his land, and enter the
books kept Tor that purpose and give him certificate
thereor 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 3th degrees of Latitude North
and 18th and 22nd degrees of Longitude West, from
Washington beginning on the south side OF Red Rlv
or, at point II miles east OF the False Ouachitta,
running thence due South 100 miles, thence East l64
miles, thence North 100 miles, thence West 64 miles
TO the beginning, having a front the meanderings
ofRed 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
draugh from the interior OF the Colony to the Gulf
of Mexico into which il enptes some IS 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 TO the acre. weighing So to 20 pounds to the
bushel. Indian corn, rye barley, oats, sweet and
Irish potatoes peas BEANS melons, garden vegetables
Otal kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco, and the cee
braied muskeet grass which covers the prairies and
upon which cattle subsist and keep fat during the
winter and require only to be Occasonally sailed and
kept together, to rear them in great numbers.
The planting season commences in February and
continues until July but the early crops are most pro-
ductive: Emigrnnts should go in the fall win
ter so as to be ready to put in early crop Those
going from Missouri, Iowa Wisconsin, and the nor
thern parts of Illinois and Indiana should 90 through
Missouri or Arkanans to Van Buren, Fort Smith, Fort
TOwson, Coilee's 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 90 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 at
which place agent will be stationed, who will give
the emigrants directions to their route by land to
Dallas and Stewarsvlle distance OF some 200 miles.
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an Industrious,
intelligent and moral people, and must soon become
the most populous 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
surface; thereare no ponds, swamps or marshes, and
no local cause for disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months of sum
ner there Is constant breeze playing over the pralr
les, and the nights are invariably cool; the thennom
er falls below so DEGREES Fahrenheit II ahonnds 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
Garrard County, KY, last fall, says in letter dated
9Th May, lS47,'l will not venture to tell my friends
in Kentucky that the land here was better than the
best land in Kentucky, because they would not be-
leve it, but now assert ii, for the soil is deeper,
being in many places five feet and the kindest land
TO work ever put plough in. verify believe that
around the forks of the Trinity lies the largest body
of first-rate land in America" From the forks of
Trinity Santa Fe is only about 600 miles by the old
Spanish trnil, and the newspapers in Texas now
advocating the route up the Trinity and fromis forks
by land in every respect preferable to the one by
Independence Nc Why should Emigrants 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
offer the continent of America of getting lands for
the mere cost of surveys and of deeds. Our Col
Ony is emphatically the place for the poor mans
homes there he does not have feed his cattle for six
or seven months in the year; there he will have a
home marketfor all the surplus he can produce for
years come and with industry and economy, speed
lily become rich.
Let no Emigrant loose sight of the important fact
that our contracts with the Government of Texas ex-
pire the LIST day of July 1SiS and that he not
only be in the Colony but that he have selected
his land built house cabin thereon, and be resid-
ing therein with his family by that day--one day af-
ter that date, and the opportunity OF getting lands for
nothing Is, perhaps, lost for ever. Persons desiring
additional information, by addressing the undersign-
ed Trustees or either OF them, post paid shall receive
WILLIS STEWART Trustees efhe
JOHN j. SMITH, Tsras Emigration
w. G. PETERS, and Lind Company
LOUISVILLE, SEPT. lsT, lSi7.-sep l4-lm.