Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-09-18
TEXAS EmIcRATIoN AND LAND COMPANY.


TNHE TEXAS EMIGRATION AND LAND COMPANY
having derived their grspt from the late Republic of
authority of the special of Congress- approved 4 Febru-
ary ls4i and 10th January, S43 granting lands
100 of land single years age
until the lst day OF Joy Is4s, conditioned that the family
family, defined in contracts, mi consist Of
"a man and his wife, with or without children
years of age, if females unmarried.
a widow with two children if males under IL
years OF age, If females unmarried
Two single the age of IL years, each being
entitled to 100 acres''
On his arrival in the colony the emgant should forthwith
apply to the agent Of the company Mr. Henry o. Hedgcoxe,
residing Stewartsve In Denton county, who will all
times be ready assist him in the selection of his land
he same on books kept Tor that purpose and give him
certificate thereor which certificate will be evidence Of his
having settled in the colony in due time.
Our grant lies in the northeastern Texas between
the SGD and SAITH degrees of latitude north and 18th and 22d
degrees of longitude west from Washington beginning the
south side of Red river point l2 miles OF the False
0uacha running thence due south 100 miles thence
164 miles; thence north 100 miles 64 miles
the beginning leaving front the meanderngs Red
Of nearly 800 miles and includes within its limits upper
and lower Cross Tmbers and the head of the Brasos
Trinity rivers the Trinity being naygabe for steamboats,
light draught the interior colony Gulf Of
Mexico into which emptes 25 miles from Galveston
and Red river to the Mississippi aodng outlet for the
surplus productions the This portion OF Texas
peculiarly adapted to the growth wheat experience within
the last having tested the fact that will produce
forty bushels to the acre, weighing sx6ve seventy pounds
the bushe Indian corn rye barley, OATS and Irish
potatoes peas beans melons, garden vegetables of all kinds
which the prsres and upon which cattle sub and
keep fat during the winter and require only be occasionally
The planting season in February and continues
until July but the early crops are productive. Emf
put 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, Cofee Station Pine Bluff thence into the
settlements the direction Of the Forks Trinity Those
going from other sections OF the Union south should He
lena Columbia, Arkansas, Memphis, Tennessee, Nat
chez Mississippi and thence by land New Or
leans and thence by steamboat up Red Shreveport
Louisiana which place agent will be stationed who will
give the emigans directions their by Dali
| las and Stewartsville, distance of some 200 miles
Our colony rapidly filling up with industrious, nteli
gent and moral people, and become the popu
ous part Texas The Government has recently formed the
counties Of Grayson Dallas Denton Collin, aud a part OF
Robeon aud Navarro within the grant IL is decidedly the
healthy part of the State the lands having gently undu
ng m neTs are no sns and
During the warmest months OF summer there is
breeze playing the prares and the nghs
variaby cool the thermometer above IS
and in the winter falls below so degrees Fahrenheit 1t
abounds in springs and the depth of fifteen twenty feet
small peculiarly clear and crystal like. Colonel
William Myers, who removed there from Garrard county,
Kentucky last fall in letter dated Sth May, 18E 81
will tell my friends in Kentucky that the land
here better than the best land in Kentucky because they
being many places five feet and the kinde land to work
put plough in verify believe that around the Forks
"s ro e' ne 9o sSa F ,o y onn ~
GOO miles by the old Spanish ta and the newspapers in
Texas advocating the route the Trinity and from
its forks by land every preferable to the by
Independence Missouri Why should emgrants think go
ing Oregon California when they obtain better land
| for nothing much nearer home
This is perhaps, the last opportunity that ill offer o
the continent of America of getting lands for the COST
surveys and Of deeds Our colony is emphatcalIy
place poor mans home there he does not have teed
his cattle Tor six months the year there he will
have home market the surplus he can produce for
years to and with industry and economy speedily be-
| rich.
Let emigan lose sight of the important fact that our
tatd
OF july iS4s and that he must not only be DE colony ut
that he must have selected his land built house cabin
thereon and be residing therein with his family by that day.
day after that date and the opportunity getting lands for
nothing perhaps lost forever Persons desiring additional in
ormaton by addressing the undersigned either Of
them, postpaid shall receive prompt attention.
WILLIS STEWART,
/ JOHN j. SMITH,
| w. G. PETERS,
| Trustees of the Texas Emigration and Land Co.
Louisville, Sept !, 1S&-sep 1S--w2
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