Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-11-02
Texas Emigration 6 Land Company
$40 saeres Of land for $2O.-l6O .acrcs al
land for SIC!


WE TEXAS EMiGRArIoN AND LAND COMPANY
Il having derived their Grant from the lats
Republic ot Texas, by contracts made with lhS
President Thereof. under authority of the special
tcts OF Congress, appr,'ved 4th February, ls4l
and 10th January, lS43, granting lands TO Ennis
Ian;s. will continue tn give 32p acres Of Iaad Vi
amilie', and l6fl aeres of lnnd 70 single men
yer II years of age; Until tie lss day of July,
845, conditioned, that the fniRilS shall pay SEQ;
and the single man St0,> for the Surveying fees =
A family, as defined in contracts, mist con-
sist Of
ga man an hiswife with, or without childrsn'
IA %idower with two or more children, if
males under II years of age, IL females unmaT:
red."
IA widow with ttSo or mere chiidred; il males
under Ii years Of nge, if females, unmarried
"I'wo single Men over the age of ssyenteen
years, each one being entitled 10 16U acres.''
On his arrival in the CoIdDF; the Etht4r1W
should forthwith apply to the agent of the Cons
pany, Mr.. Henry y. Hedgcoxe, residing al Stew
artsville in Denton county, who will at all times
be ready to assist him in the selection Of his land
and enter the same on books kept for that pur.
pose, and give him certificate therefor; which
certificate will be evidence OF his having ss,tl ed
10 the Colony III due time.
Our Grant lies III the NSrth-EasteFH part az
Texas, between the 3ahd ahd 9th degrees Of
Latitude North, and IS and p degrees OF Ions
gitude West, from Washington; beginning on this
south side Of Red River, at a point IL miles cast
of the False Ounshtta, running thence due
South 100 miles. thence East l64 miles, thence
North ito miles, thenco West l64 miles to the
beginning, having front Oh the meanderiRgs Of
Red River of nearly 300 miles; and includes
within its limits the upper and lower Gross Tim
bers, and the head waters Of the Brasas,and Triu:
Ity Rivers, the Trinity being navigable for Steam
Boats of light dTaugh:, from the interior Of the
Colony TO the Gulf Of Mexico into which it emp
ties, some 25 ihiles FROM Galveston; and Pr INA
er, to the Mississippi, affordins 'Tb,s rsr,ion
surplus productions IF adapted to the growth Of
OF Texas is within the las, two rears hav:
sssted lhe fact, that il will produce 40 bushels
10 the acre, weighing IS to 10 pounds on the
bushe'. Indian com, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and Irish potatoes, peas, beans, melons garden
vegetable of all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobaecol
and the celebrated muskeet grass which covers
the prairies and upon which cattle subsis, and
keep fat during the winter, and re iuiru only I'd
be occasionally sailed and kept together, to rear
them in great numbers.
Tbs planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
the most productive. kmigrants should go on in
the fall Or winter, so as 10 DO ready TO put IN an
early crop. Those going from Missouri, IowaI
Wisconsin and northern parts Ct IlIno and In
to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort T0hsori ;offee's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
in the direction of the forks oftho Triaiy. These
going from other sections of the Union; south,
should go to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn. or Natchez, Miss ,nnd thence across
by land; or 10 New Orleans al thence BY Ste ami
Boat up Red River to Shreveport, Lnuisisna, at
which place an agent will be stationed, VINO will
give emigrants directions as to their route BY land
to Dallas AMI Stewartsvile, distance Of som.
300 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling UP with an indus
t:ous, intellIgent and moral people and muss
soon become the most populoas part Of Texas
The Government has recently formed the counties
of Greysou, Dallas, Deaton, Collin and a part
of Robertson and Navarro within the Grant. 10
is decidedly the most healthy part of the state,the
lands having having gentle undulating surfaceI
there are no ponds, swamps or marines, and no
local cause for disease: The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. Outing the warmest months OF
summer there is constant breeze playing over
che praires, and the nights are Invariably cooli
the thermometer never rises above % to W, ana
in the winter never falls below 30 degrees Fah-
renheif. IL abounds in springs, aud at the depiH
of fifteen twenty feet, in the midst Of the prai-
RE, tn best water be had; all tie Small
streams peculiarly clear and crystal like -
Colonel William Myers who removed from Car
ard county, KY, last fall, says In letter dated
friends in Kentucky that the land here was better
than the best land in Kenturky, because they
would not believe it; but now assert It, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places five feet
and the kindesi land To work l ever put a plough
in. ! verify believe that around the forks Of the
Trinity. lies the largest body Of irst-rate land in
Amenca." From the forks Of the Trinity to
Santa Fe, is only 60O miles by the old Spanish
trail aud the newspapers in Texas are now advo-
eating the route up the Trinity, and from It's forks
by land, in every rosr ect 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; 90 much near-
er home?
This is, perhaps the last opportunity that will
ever offer on tho continent of America Of getting
Iands for the mere cost of surveys and cost Of
deeds Our Colony is alphabetically the place
for the Door mans homie: thefe he does not have
20 feed nj. cattle for six seven months in the
year; there he will have home market for all
the surplus he can produce for years to come. and
with industry and economy, speedily becouie rich.
Let no Emigant luss sight Of the important fat
that contracts with the Government Of Teas
expire Oh the LIST day of July, l8aS, and that he
must not only be IN the Colony, but that he must
have selected his land, built house or cabin
thereon, aud be residing therein with his family.
by that day ;-on- day after that date, and the
opportunity Of getting lands for nothing IS, per.
haps, lost for ever, Persons desiring additionat
information, by addressing the underslgned Trus-
tees or either of them, post paid, Shall feeeivS
prompt attention. fs 3.
Wits STEwART,) Trustees Of Ne
JOHN ]. Smrru, Tszas Emieratiost
W..C. PErERs. and L9ss& Genlpo1N.
Louisville, Sept list l847. ssyg'
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