Tri-weekly journal., 1847-10-14
TEXAS EMIGRATION AND
LAND COM p A N Y .
800 Acres of Land for $2O"".16O
Acres of Land for $40!

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- APP
proved 4th February, l04l and 10th January, lo43,
granting lands to Emigrants, will continue to give
800 of land to families and 100 acres OF land TO
single men over IL years OF age until the LIST day OF
July l849 conditioned, that the family shall pay S2O
and the single man So 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; IL males I'M
der II years of age, If females, unmarried"
1.-Two single men over the age OF seventeen years,
each one being entitled to $50 acres
On his arrival in the Colony, the Emigrant should
forthwith apply to the agent of the Company, Mr..
Henry o. Hedgcoxe, residing at Sewartsvllle In Den
ton county, who will at all times be ready to assist
him in the selection ofhs land, and enter the same on
books kept for that purpose and give hlma cernhcate
Therefore 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 34th degrees OF Latitude North,
aud 18th 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
10 the beginning, having front on the meanderings
Of Red River Of nearly 800 miles; and includes with
Units limits the upper and lower Cross Tlmbers and
the head waters of the BraSos and Trinity Rivers the
Trinity being navigable for Steamboats, of light
draught from the interior of the Colony the Cult
of Mexico into which il empties, some % miles from
Galveston, and Red River, to the Mississippi, afford
ing an 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 II will produce 40
bushels to the acre. weighing 90 to 70 pounds TO the
bushel Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet and
Irish potatoes, peas, beans, melons, garden vegetables
Oft kinds cotton, hemp and tobacco and the cele-
brated muskeet grass which covers the prarles and
and fat
winter, and require only be occasionally sailed and
kept together, to rear them in great numbers.
The planting season commences IN February and
continues until Juy but the early crops most pro-
ductve; Emgrants should go on in the fall or win
ter, to be ready to put in an early crop, Those
going from Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the nor
them parts OF Illinois and Indiana should go through
Missouri or Arkansas to Van Buren, Fort Smith, Fort
Towson, CoAees 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, 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 populous part OF Texas, The Government
has recently formed the counties of Grayson Dallas,
Denton, Collin, and part OF Robeson and Navarro
within the Grant. 1t is decidedly the most healthy
part of the state, the lands having gently unduang
surface; there are ponds, swamps marshes, and
no local cause for disease The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months Of sum-
there is constant breeze playing over the prair-
les and the nights are invariably cool; the thermom-
eter rises above IS to 90, and in the winter
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 can be had all
the small peculiarly clear and crystal like
Colonel William Myers, who removed there from
Garrard County Ky, last fall, says in letter dates
9Th May, lS47,-l will not venture to tell my trendd
> in Kentucky that the land here better than the
best land in Kentucky, because they would not be-
lieve it.; but l assert it, for the soil is deeper
being in many places five feet and the kindtst lane
TO work ever put plough in verify believe tina
around the forks of the Trinity lies the largest body
of tirst-rnte land in America" From the forks o
Trinity TO Santa Fe is only about GOO miles by the ole
Spanish trail, and the newspapers in Texas are now
advocating the route up the Trinity and from its forks
by land in every respect preferable to the by
Independence, Mo. Why should Emigrants think o
going to Oregon or California when they can Obtain
better land for nothing, so much nearer homel
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will eve
offer the continent of America OF getting lands TO
the mere cost of surveys and cost of deeds Our Col
ony is emphatcally the place for the poor man.
home there he does not have TO feed his cattle for sl
months in the year; there he will have
home market for all the surplus he can produce 70
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
pre the LIST day of July. 1913, and that he must
only be in the Colony, but that he must have selecte
land built house cabin thereon, and be resd
ing therein with his family by that day;one day al
ter that date and the opportunity OF getting lands 70
nothing Is, perhaps, lost for ever Persons desrin
additional information, by addressing the undersign
ed Trustees either of them post paid shall receiv
prompt attention.
WILLIS STEWART Trustees qfms
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LOUISVILLE. SEPT. lsr, ls47.-sep. l4-lm.