Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-11-23
Texas Emigration & Land Company.
900 .4eres Of land for S20!-l6O .acre, Of
land for Sl0! st.f ~ ..ssf


2 0HE TEXAS EMIGRATION AND LAND COMPANY
having derived their Cant from the late
Republic OF Texas, by contras Is made with the
PresneI Ihern. under authority of the special
acIs Of Congress. Apr we'd 4tx February, .oli
and 10Th January, ts43, granting lands t.. Euni-
nIan:s, viii continue To give BE acres OF and
lamilies, ami i6I acres Of land to single men
over IL wears of age, until the LIST day Of July,
1913, conditioned, that the fHmily shall pay or,
AMI the sirefe man go. for the surveyin; fees
family, as defined in our contracts, mist coa-
sist Of ra
~ man an hswife, with, or without children "
GA widower with two or more children, rs
males under Ia yCass Of age, il females unmaJ-
RED"
"A widow with two or mere childred. h mnies
under | years of "ge, if females, unmarried >"
"fwo single men owes the age of 3yeElesn
years, each one being eniiled 10 f6O acres"
On his arrivnI in the Colony, The Etnigr1sE
should forthwith apply to the agent Of the Com
pany, Mr.. Henry y. lIedgccxe, res ding az Stew
artsvis in Denton county. who will at all times
be ready to assist him in the selection &C rs land
and enter the same on books kept for that pur-
pose, and give him a certiIcne therefor; which
certificate will be evidence Of his having settled
IL tie Colony in due time. -f
Our Grant lies in the North-Easnzn part of
Tex:s. between the 32nd and 3lth degrees OF
Latiinde North, and 10 aud % degrees Of Lon
gitude West. from Washington; beginning on the
south side of Red River, at point IL miles east
oil the False OuoGhitIa, running thence due
South 100 miles. thence East I64 miles, Ihencs
North ito miles, thenco West 81 miles to ih.
beginning, having front OIL the nIeanderngs Of
Red River of nearly 300 miles: and includes
within its limits the upper and lower Cross Tim
bers, and the head waters OF The Brasas and Triu-
lty Rivers, the Trinity being navigable for Steam
Boats OF light draugh:, from The Inferior Of tho
Gloomy 10 the Gulf OF Mexico into which il emp
ties, some % miles Eom Galveston, and Red Riy-
er, TO the Mississippi, aGording outlet fer the
surplus productions of the country. This portion
OF Texas is peculiarly adapted to the growth of
wheat, experience within the last two years hav-
ing tested the fact that i. will produce 40 bushels
10 the acre, weighing IS to ~ pounds the
bushe, Indian coru, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and Irish potatoes, peas, beans, melons gardeR
vegetable of all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated muskeet grass which covers
the prairies and upon which cattle subsiG, ard
keep fat during the wintt {, and re luire only 10
be OCCASIONALLY sailed and kept together, to real
Them i'll great numbers.
The planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops
the most productive. t.migrants should go on in
the fall Or winters so as 10 be ready TO put ia al
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin and northern parts Of Ilino and ln-
3
to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson, Coffes's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into tie Settlements
in the direction OF the forks oftho TE.ity. These
going from other sections Of the Union, south,
should go to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mems
phis, 1 enn. or Naichez, Miss ,and thence across
by laud /; TO New Orleans al q thence by Ste am
Boat up Red River to Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place agent will be stationed, wn' will
give enlgranIs directions as to their route by aIl
to Dallas AMI Stewurtsvile, 4 distance OF sou,.
30 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indu.
t.iouS, Intelligent ant moral people and musf
sooh 0ecome the most poIuoJs part OF Faxas-
The Government has recently formed ths counties
of G:ayson, Dallas, Denton, C.'Iiin aid a part
Ot Robertson and Navarro within the Grant 10
i decidedly the most healthy Uar Of the staistha
anis having having gentle anIulatimg surface;
there are no pom IS, s%am,Is or mar hes, and no
local cause ,ur disease. The atmosphere il pure
and pleasant. During the waEmest months Of
summer there is a Constant breeze playing ovee
;he prairies, aud the flights are invariably cool;
the thern0,n ter never rises above IS To 80, and
In the winter never falls below 81 degrees Fab
FeAheit. It abolhds. ia springs, aud at the depth
of fifteen OF twenty fset, H tile midst uf the prai-
EIe, the best water can be had; all lie small
streams ale peculiarly clear aud crystal like -
Cooual William Myers nc removed from Car
ART c1uaty, Ky, Iasi fail, says il, letter dated
9th Nav, loE-"I will nor venture TO tell my
friends la Kentueky that the land here was DETER
than the best land in Kenlu"ky, hscause they
would noI believe ii but now assert il, for ths
soil is deeper, being n many places I'VE feet
ami the kiudest land Ia work ever put plough
i'll. | verify believe that around tins .orks OF the
Trinity. lies iae lagest 'ody d hTs-Tate land ia
Amsncan From tie io:ks Of the Trinity 10
santa Fe, is only CD miles by the old Spanish
trail aud the newspapers in Texas are nov sdyo-
eating the route up The Trinity and from its forks
BY land, in every resi- ect preferable to the on1
by Independence, No. Why should emiyraaia
think Of go;rg to O;egon OR Ca!if,rnla whan they
eau obtain better land for nothing, 90 much near.
er home?
This is, perhaps. the last opportunity that will
ever offer Oh the continent al America of getting
lanhs for the mere COST of surveys aud cost Of
deeds. Our colony Is emphaiically the place
tor the pour nuns home: there he does not have
20 feed hi cattis for six seven mon:hs in the
year; there he will have home market for all
the suratus he can produce inr years TO colne,and
with INDUSTRY and ECONOMY, speedily become rich.
Let no Em;grant lose sight of the important fa:t
that our contracts with the Government of Texas
expire OH the LIST day OF July, l5aS, and that he
must not only be IN the Colony, but that be must
have selected his land, built Q house or cabin
thereon, and be residing therein with his family
by that day ;-ons day after that date, and the
opportunity Of getting lands for nothing il, per,
haps, lost for ever. Persons tiesirina additional
information, by addressing the undersigned Trus-
tees or either of them, post paid, shall receive
prompt attention.
WILLIS SrEwART,l Tfusteescf0te
JOHN j. SAITH, Teras Emigration
W. &. PETERS, aai Land Company.
Louisville, Sc-i - ~.