Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-12-21
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Texas emigration 8 Land Canlaay.
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land for $tu!ei a1i9a sfassi 20 ai2 e
n yHE TEXAS EMGRATIoN AND LAND CeHPANT
II having derived their Giant from the isss
Republic OF Texas, by contracts made with ths
PFssi6srs theroi. under authority Of she ,tpeciat
acts Of Congress, approved 4th February, iU4t
and 10th January, lS43, granting lsuds % EHal-
nian:s, will continue TO give 32p acres OF land ~
families, and I6tI acres OF land 90 single men
over IL years Of age, until tie Ist day Of Judy,
lS4S, conditioned, that the family shall pay $40,
AMI the single man $40. for the surveying ices -
a family, as defined in our contracts, mist eou-
sist Of
"a man an his wife with .er without chldrsn.'~
"a widoweT with Iwo % more enildroa, it
males under IL yeas Of sge, il females untnar.
ried." .-
"A widow with Iwo or mcve ehildrsd: if males,
under L. years Of nge, if females, unmarried
"Two single men ovei the age Of Stventee8
years, each one being entitled TO l 90 acres"
On his arrival in the Colony, The Emigrlni
should forthwith apply 10 the agent Of the Com
pAny, air. Henry @. Hedgccxe, residing nj Stew
srtsvIle IN Denton county. who will at all times
6e ready to assist him in the selection Of his land
ana enter The same on books kept for that pur-
| rose, and give him ceuiGca.e therefor; which
| certificate will beevidence o. his having settled
! ia toe Colony la due time. MO aG3 tue
/ Our Grant lies in tho North-E stern part oT
| Texas. between The 32nd and 34th degrees Of
Latitude North, and 10 and % degrees or Lon
gituds West, from Washington beginning on the
south side Of Red River. al a point = miles east
| OF the False Oua:nittS. running lhenca Gus
South 100 miles. thence East 81 milas, thsncu.
North iUO miles, thenro West "a mile, To The
brsinning. having font the ire aI,derings II
Red River of NEARLY 300 miles: and Includes
within Ills limits the upper and lower Cross Tim
hers, and tIs aead waters OF Tho Brasas aud Tria-
Ity Rivers, the Trinity being navga6ls for Steam
Boats OF light draugh:, from the Interior Of the.
| Gloomy 10 Ihe Gull of Mexico inlo which il emp
ties, some % miles GoIn Galveston, and Red Riv-
er, to the Mississippi, afording an outlet fer the
surplus productions of the country. This portion
| OF Texas is peculiarly adapted 20 the growth Of
wheat, experience within the last ) ears ha,-
ing tesei the foct that /: will produce ~ bushels
10 the acre, weighing Is to ~ pounds the
oushe'. IndiaD corI, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and IIish potatoes, peas, beans. mAl0ns gartIOn
vegetabl. OF all kinds, cotton, hemp aud tobacco,
and the celebrated mIskeet grass whica coyeta
the pianes ami upon which cattle subsisI, aPd
Keep lat during the Winter, and re Iuire oIllY e.
b. tecasionaly sailed and kept together. 70 rec,
them in great numbers. egt. >. a
| Tbs planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but The early crops ara
| the mos; productive. Immigrants should 20 ON ia
| the fall or winter, so 10 DO ready to put On ga
Wisconsin and northern parts Of Illiuo and In
diana, should go through Missouri OF .Arkansas
to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson, Cofss,a
Station or Pine Bluff, thence in:o the settlements
III the direction Of the forks oftho rri1ity. These
going from other sections OF tho Union, south.
should go to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Meua-
phis, Tenn, or NaIchez, Niles. ,and thence acrosA
by land or 20 New Orleans al d thence By Ste am
Boat up Red River 10 Shreveport, Louisi4na, AZ
which place an agent will be stationed, VINO will
give engrants directions as to their route By land
to Dallas AMI Stswartsvil,e, a distance Of SOM,
80 miles @ Ha. -.a.'# .....f
Our colony is rapidly 6lling up with an indu.-
tIious, Intelligent aud moral people and muE
soon become the most populoIs part Of Texas
The Governments has recently formed ths countiss
of Grsysnn, Dallas, Denton, Collin and part
OF Robertson and Navarro within the Grant II
is decidedly the most healthy part of aha state,tAA
lands having having gentle undulating surface:
there are no ponds, swamps or marches, and no
local cause iOr disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warnes, months Of
summer there is constant breeze playing over
The prairIes, and the nights are invariably cool:
The Thermometer never risos above IS to 80, AMI
III the winter never falls below 81 degrees Fan.
rehlIeit It abo"nds in Springs, aud Mt the dspth
ut fifteen oP twenty feet, in tile midst If the prai
RE, the best water can be had; all lie small
streams aIe peculiarly clear aud crystal like
Colonel William Myers who removed from Gar,
:arh county, Ky, lasI fall, says ir letter dated
oth Nav, lS47-"I will not venture to toll nv
friends in Kentucky thar the land here was better
than the best land i'll Kentucky, because they
would rot believe it; but now assert il, for tha
soil is deeper, being in many places five feet
ami the &indest land to work ever put a plough
III. verify believe that around the forks Of the
trinity. lies the laIgesl body OF 6rst-rats land in
Ameflca." From the lo:xs Of the Trinity 10
Santa re, is only CO.. miles by the old Spanish
trail and The newspapers in TeSns are nov Advo.
eating The route up The Trinity, land its foFks
by land, as in every resi- ect preferable the one
by Independence, Mo. Why should amigrau,.
think of going to Oregon or California whsn ther
can obtain better land for nothing, so much nesr.
CT homcl
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that wiiI
ever offer the continent OF u,erica OF getting
lands for the msre cost Of surveys and cost OF
deeds. Our Colony is emphatically the PLACE
Tor the pour mans home: there he does MOI have
20 feed his cattls for six or seven months in the
year; there he will have home market for All
the surplus he can produce for years 10 come
with Industry and economy, speedily become rich.
Let no Enigront lose sight Of the importantfa-t
that our contracts with the Goyernlnent of Texan
expire OH the lst day of July, lS45, and that he
must not only be III the Colony, bur that he must
have selected his land, buil hnu.e or cabir
thereon, and be residrIg therein with his family
by that day; --ona day after that date, and tina
opportunity OF getting lnnds for nothing ia, per-
haps, lost for ever. Persons dasirin. adritionaE
information, by addressing The unersivned Tru.
tees or either of them, post paid, shall receive
prompt attention.
WILLIS STEWART, Tfu'tes' efMe
JOIN J. SAITH, Ieras Emigr0tion
W. Z. PETERS. and Land Company
Louisville, Sept. let lS47. . ..-