Arkansas intelligencer., 1847-10-02
TEXAS EMF GRAFTON AND
LAND COMP E
500 ACRES OF LAND FOR 500. ACRES OF LAND
FOR $40.

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families, and lGO acres of land to single men
over II years of age. until the ist day of july
lS4S, conditioned, that the family shall pay $40.
and the single man $40, for the surveying fees.
family, as defined in our Contracts, must con-
sist Of
GA man and his wife, with or without chill
dren.''
"a widower with two children; if
males under II years of age, if females unmar
ried.''
ga widow with two or more children; if males
under 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 Com
pany, Mr.. Henry 0. Hedgcoxe, residing at Ste
warsville in Denton county. who will al all times
be ready to assist him in the selection of his
land, and enter the same books kept for that
purpose, AID give him a certificate thereof; which
certificate will be evidence of his having settled
in the Colony in due time.
Our Grant lies in the North Eastern part of
Texas. between the 32d and 34th degrees of Lat
itude North. and 10Th and 22d degrees Of Eongi-
tude West, from Washington; beginning on the
south side of RED river, at point II miles east
of the False Ouachtta, running thence due South
100 miles, thence East l64 miles, thence North
100 miles, thence West l64 miles to the begin
ming, leaving front on the meanderings of Red
river of nearly 300 miles; and includes within its
limits the Upper and Lower Cross Timbers, and
the head waters of the Brasos and Trinity rivers,
the Trinity being navigabe for steamboats, Of
light draught, from the interior of the Colony 10
the Gulf Mexico into which it empties, some %
miles from Galveston and Red river, TO the Mis-
sissppi, affordlng outlet for the surplus pro-
ductons Of the country. This portion of Texas
is peculiarly adapted TO the growth Of wheat, ex-
perience within the last two years having tested
the fact, that it will produce DO bushels to the
acre, weighing 65 TO 70 pounds 10 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
celebrated muskeet grass which covers the prai-
ries and upon which cattle subsist. and keep fat
during the winter, and require only 10 be occa-
sionaIly saed and kept together, they rear thenl
in great numbers.
Tie planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
most productive. Enigrants should 90 on in the
fall or winter, as TO be ready to put in an early
crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa. Wiscon-
sin, and the northern parts of Illinois and Indiana.
should go through Missouri or Arkansas to VAN
BUREN. Fl. Smith, F.. 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 Union, south.
should 90 to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn, or Natchez, Miss, and thence across
by land; or to New Orleans. and thence by steam
boat up Red river 10 Shreveport Louisiana, at
which place agent will be stationed. who will
give the emigrants directions to their route by
land to Dallas and Stewartsville, distances of
some 200 miles.
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indus
trious, intelligent and moral people, and must
soon become the most popuous part Of Texas
The Government has recently formed-the coun-
ties of Grayson, Dallas, Denton, Collin, and
part of Robertson and Navarro within the Grant.
1t is decidedly the most healthy part Of the State
the lands having gently unduiatng surface -
there are no ponds, swanps or marshes, and no
local cause for disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant During The warmest months of
summer there is constant breeze playing over
the praries, and the nights invariably cool :.
the thermometer never rises S5 10 80, and
in the winter never falls below 80 degrees Fab
renhet. 1t abounds in springs, and at the depth
Of fifteen or twenty feet in the midst of the prai-
re, the best wafer can be had; all the small
streams peculiarly clear and crystal-liie.-
Colonel William Myers, who removed there from
Garrard county, KY, last fall, says, in q letter
dated Slh May, lS47,-"l will noc venture to tell
my friends in Kentucky that the land here was bet
ter than the best land in Kentucky, because they
would not believe it; but now assert it, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places five feet. and
the kndes land TO work ever put plough in,-
verify believe that around the forks of the Tri-
nifty, lies the largest body of first-rute land in
America" From the forks of Trinity to Santa
Fe. is only about 600 miles by the old Spanish
trail, and the newspapers in Texas now ad-
vocating the route up the Trinity, and from its
forks by land, as in every respect preferable to
the one by independence, Mo. Why should EN-
igrants think of going to Oregon or California,
when they obtain better land for nothing, so
much nearer home?
This is. perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever offer on the continent of America, of get
ting lands for the mere cost of surveys and cost
of deeds. Our Colony is emphaticaIly the place
for the poor mans home: there he does not have
to feed his cattle for six or seven months in the
year; there he will have Il home market for all
the surplus he can produce for years TO come,
and with industry and economy, speedily become
rich
Let no Emigrant lose sight of the important
fact that our contracts with the Government Of
Texas expire the lst day of July, lS4S, and
that he must not only be in the Colony. but that
he must have selected his land, built u house or
cabin thereon, and be residing therein with his
family by that day;-one day after that date, and
the opportunity of getting land for nothing, is,
perhaps, lost for ever. Persons desiring addi-
ional Information, by addressing the undersigned
Trustees either of them, post paid, shall re-
celve prompt attention.