Tri-weekly journal. (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1847-188?, 1847-09-18
TEXAS EMIGRATION AND
L AN ID COM p A n Y /.
800 Acres Of Land for S2O"'16O
Acres Of Land for $40!

TINE Texas ENIGRATIoN AND LAND COMPANY hav-
inc 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, lS4l and 10th January, 1913
granting lands to Emigrants will continue TO give
800 acres of land to families, and 100 acres OF land to
single men over II years OF age, until the lst day OF
July, 1913, conditioned that the family shall pay $50
and the single man $40, Tor the surveying lees a
family, defined in Contracts, must consist Oh
"A 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 more children; If males un-
der II years of age, if females, unmarried"
1.-TWO single men over the age OF seventeen years,
each one being entitled 10 loo acres
On his arrival in the Colony, the Emigrant should
forthwith apply to the agent OF the Company. Mr..
Henry o. Hedgcoxe, residing at Stewartsville in Den
county, who will ali times be ready assist
him in the selection fhis land, and enter the same
books kept for that purpose, and give him certificate
therefor; 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 3ith degrees of Latitude North,
and 10Th and 22nd degrees OF Longitude West, from
Washington; beginning the south side OF Red kiv
err at point II miles east OF the False Ouachlita,
running thence due South 100 miles, thence East l64
miles, thence North O0mles, thence West l64 miles
to the beginning, having front on the meanderings
of Red River OF nearly 800 miles, and includes with
in its limits the upper and lower Cross Tlmbers, and
the head OF the Brasos and Trinity Rivers the
Trinity being navigabe TOR Steamboats, OF light
draught from the interior OF the Colony to the Gulf
OF Mexico into which it empies, some % miles from
Galveston and Red River, TO the Mississippi, afford
ing an 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 havng tested the fact, that it will produce 40
bushels the acre. weighing 65 to 20 pounds TO the
bushel. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet and
Irish potatoes peas beans, melons, garden vegetables
OF all kinds cotton, hemp and tobacco, and the ceie
brated muskeet grass which covers the praires and
upon which cattle subsist, and keep tat during the
winter and require only be occasionally salted and
kept together, 10 rear them in great numbers.
The planting season commences in February and
continues until July; but the early crops pro-
ductive Emigrants should go on in the fall or win
ter so as to be ready TO put IN an early crop Those
going from Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the nor
thern parts of illinois and Indiana, should go through
Missouri or Arkanas Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort
Towson, Coffee'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
lon south, should 20 TO Helena or Columbus, 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 viii be stationed, who will give
the emgrans directions as TO their route by Land 10
Dallas and Sewartsyile, distance of some 200 miles.
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an industrious,
intelligent and moral people, and must soon become
the most popnlous part OF Texas. The Government
has recently formed the counties OF Grayson, Dallas,
Denton, Collin, and part oil Robson and Navarro
within the Grant 1t is decidedly the most healthy
part of the state, the lands having gently undulang
surface; thereare ponds, swamps or marshes, and
no local cause for disease. The atmosphere s pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months OF sum-
there is aconstant breeze playing over the prair'
les, and the nights invariably cool the themoin-
eer never rises above s. TO co. and IN the winter new
er fails 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 streams are peculiarly clear and crystal like.
] lanai WIN
Garrard County, Ky last fall says, in letter dated
Sth May, lS47-I will not venture tell my friends
in Kentucky that the land here was better than the
best land in Kentucky. because they would not be-
lieve it; butnow it, 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 forks of the Trinity, lies the largest body
iof first-rate land in America From the forks OF
Trinity Santa Fe is only about GOO miles by the old
Spanish trail, and the newspapers in fexas now
advocating the route the Trinity and from its forks
by land as In every respect preferable to the one by
Independence, Mo Why should Emigrants 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
the mere cost oil surveys and cost OF deeds. Our Col
ony is emphatcally the place for the poor mans
home there he does have TO feed his cattle for six
or seven months in the year; there he will have q
home market for all the surplus he can produce toI
years come, and with industry and economy, speed
lily become rich.
I Let no Emigrant loose sight of the important fact
that contracts with the Government OF Texas ex
pre on the LIST day of July. 1913, and that he must
only be in the Colony but that he must 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 fol
nothing is perhaps, lost for ever. Persons desiring
additional information, by addressing the undersign
ed Trustees either of them, post paid, shall receive
prompt attention.
WILLIS STEWART Trustees The
John 6 J. SMITH Ts1 9 Emigration
i LOUISVILLE. SEPT. lsT, ls47-Sep. H-lm.