Tri-weekly journal., 1847-10-09
TEXAS EMIGRATION AND
l. AN ID COM p A N Y .
800 Acres of Land for S2Om16O
Acres of Land for $40!

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Il 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- ap
proved 4th February, 1911 and 10th January, 1913,
granting lands to Emigrants, will continue TO give
go of land TO families and l60 of land to
single men over II years of age until the lst day of
july lSiS conditioned, that the family shall pay S2O
and the single man so, for the surveying fees. "A
family, defined in our Contracts, must consist Of
IA man and his wife, with or without children"
"a widower with two more children; it males
under II years OF age. if females unmarried"
"A widow with two or more children; ii males un-
der II years OF age, if females unmarried"
1.-TWO single men over the age of seventeen years,
each one being entitled to l60 acres
On his arrival in the Colony, the Emigrant should
forthwith apply to the agent OF the Company, Mr..
Henry O. Hedgcoxe, residing at Sewartsville in Dem
ton county, who will at all times be ready to assist
him in the selection This land, and enter the
books kept for that purpose and give him certificate
therefore which certificate will be evidence of his hav
ing settled in the Colony in due time
Our Grant lies in the North Eastern part of Texas,
between the 32nd and 3ith degrees of Latitude North
and 18th and 22nd degrees OF Longitude West, from
Washington beginning the south side of Red Riv-
er, at point II miles east OF the False Ouachitia,
running thence due South 200 miles, thence East l64
miles, thence North 100 miles, thence West 164 miles
to the beginning, having a front on the meanderngs
-iRed River OF nearly 300 miles; and includes with
inits limits the upper and lower Cross 1imbers, 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 it empties some % 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 % ito 10 pounds to the
bushel. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet and
Irish potatoes peas beans, melons, garden vegetables
oall kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco, and the cee
brated muskeet grass which covers the prairies and
upon which cattle subsist and keep fat during the
occasionally sailed
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-
ductlve Emigrants should go in the fall or win
Ter, as to be ready to put in earl crop. Those
going from Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the nor
thcm parts of Illinois and Indiana, should go through
Missouri or Arkansas to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort
TOwson, Collee'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 I'm
ion, SOUTH should 90 to Helena or Columbia, Ark,
Memphis, Tenn, 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 staioned who will give
the emgrans directions TO their route by land to
Dallas and Sewartsvile, distance ofsome 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
part Oi the state, the lands having gently undulatng
no local cause for disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warnest months of sum-
there Is constant breeze playing over the prair
jes, and the nights invariably cool; the thermom-
eteT never above 80 TO 90 and in the winter
or falls below 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Ii abounds in
springs, and nt the depth OF fifteen or 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 dates
Sth May, lsI7-"l will not venture to otell my iriendd
in Kentucky that the land here was better than the
best land in Kentucky because they would not be-
beve it, but assert il, for the soil is deeper,
being in many places five feet, and the kndest land
TO work ever put plough in. verify believe that
around the orksot the Trinity lies the largest body
OF tirst-rate land IN America" From the forks OF
Trinity TO Santa Fe, is only about GOO miles by the old
Spanish trail, and the newspapers in Texas are now
advocating the route up the Trinity, and from its for k
Independence, Mo. Why should Emgrants think OF
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 ever
offer the continent of America of getting lands or
Ahc cost OF surveys and cost of deeds Our Col
ony ia emphaiicay the place for the poor mans
hOc there he does not have feed his cattle for sA
or seven months in the year, there he will have q
home market for all the surplus he can produce fol
years 10 come, and with industry and economy, speed
lily become rich.
Let no Emigani loose sight of the important fact
that our contracts with the Government OF Texas
pire on the lst day OF July SlS and that he must no
only be in the Colony, but that he must have selected
his land, built house cabin thereon and be resid
jng therein with his family by that day;-one day af
Ger that date and the opportunity OF getting lands to-
nothing Is, perhaps, lost for Persons desirins
additional information, by addressing the updersign
ed Trustees or either OF them, post paid, shall receive
prompt attention.
WILLIS STEWART Trustees erme
VIC. PETERS, and Land Company
LOUISVILLE. SErr. lsr, lsi7.-sep. l4-lm.