Tri-weekly journal., 1847-10-11
TEXAS EMIGRATION AND
L AND COM p A n Y
320 Acres of Land for S2OD.16O
Acres of Land for $40!

TTNHE TEXAS EMIGRATION AND LAND COMPANY haV-
ing 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, lSil and 10th January, 1913,
granting lands TO Emigrants, will continue TO give
800 of land TO families, and l60 acres OF land to
single II years OF age, until the lst day Of
July, 1Sl9 conditioned that the family shall pay so,
and the single man SO, tor the surveying fees. A
family, defined in Contracts, must consist Of
"A man and his wife, with or without children"
"a widower with two or more children; If males
under II years Of age. if females unmarried"
"A widow with two or more children; II males un-
der II years of age if females, unmarried"
1.-TWO single men over the age OF seventeen years,
each one being entitled to 160 acres"
On his arrival in the Colony, the Emigrant should
forthwith apply to the agent OF the Company; Mr..
Henry o. Hedgcoxe, residing at Sewartsville in Den
ton county, who will at all times be ready to assist
him in the selection OF his 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 North Eastern part Of Texas,
between the 32nd and 34th degrees of Latitude North,
and 10Th and 22nd degrees OF Longitude West, from
Washington; beginning on the south side OF Red hlv-
er, at point II miles east OF the False Ouachltta,
running thence due South 100 miles, thence East l64
miles thence North 100 miles, thence West l64 miles
10 the beginning, having front the meanderlngs
of Red River of nearly 800 miles, and includes with
inits 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
of Mexico into which it empties, % miles from
Galveston, and Red River to the Mississippi afford
ing outlet for the surplus productions OF the coun-
try This portion of Texas IS peculiarly adapted to
the growth Of wheat, experience within the last two
years having tested the fact, that II will produce 40
bushels TO the acre, weighing 65 to 10 pounds to the
bushel Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet and
Irish potatoes peas beans, melons, garden vegetables
ofall kinds cotton, hemp and tobacco, and the cele
bratcd muskee grass which covers the pralrles and
upon which cattle subsist, and keep fat during the
winter, and require only TO be occasionally saed and
kept together, TO rear them in great numbers.
The planting season commences in February and
continues until July; but the early crops mospro-
ductve: Emigrants should 90 on in the fall or win
ter, be ready to put in early crop. Those
going from Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the nor
then parts of Illinois and Indiana should go through
Missouri or Arkansas to Van Buren, Fort Smith, Fort
Towson, Coffees Station or Pine Blutf thence into
the settlements in the direction of the forks of the
Trinity Those going from other sections of the I'm
ion, south, should 90 to Helena or Columbia, Ark,
Memphis, Tenn, or 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 will be stationed, who will give
the emigrants directions TO their by land to
Dallas and Stewartsvle distance OF some 0Omles.
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an industrious,
intelligent and moral people, and must soon become
the most populous part OF Texas. The Government
has recently formed the counties OF Grayson Dallas
Denton, Collin, and a part OF Robeson and Navarro
within the Grant. 1t is decidedly the most healthy
part of the state the lands having gently undulatng
surface; thereare no ponds, swamPs marshes, and
no local cause for disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months OF sum-
there is constant breeze playing over the prair
les, and the nights invariably cool; the thermom
eer rises above S5 TO go and in the winter
er falls 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 peculiarly clear and crystal like
Colonel William Myers, who removed there from
Garrard County KY, last fall, says, in letter dates
vi NOT IN mn trnOdd
in Kentucky that the land here better than the
best land in Kentucky, because they would ot be-
lieve it; but now | assert it. for the soil is deeper
being i'm many places five feet and the kindest land
TO work ever put plough in verify believe tha
around the forks OF the Trinity lies the largest body
of first-rate land in America" From the forks o
Trinity TO Santa Fe, is only about GOO miles by tie old
Spanish trail, and the newspapers in Texas now
advocating the route up the Trinity and from its fork:
by land in every respect preferable to the by
Independence, Mo. Why should Emigrants think o
going to Oregon or California when they can obtair
better land for nothing, so much nearer hOmei
This *, perhaps, the last opportunity that will eve
offer the continent of America OF getting lands to
the mere cost of surveys and cost OF deeds. Our Col
ony is emphaticaly the place tor the poor man.
hOme there he does not have TO feed his cattle tor si
or seven months in the year; there he will have
home market for all the surplus he can produce 70
years to come, and with industry and economy speed
lily become rich.
Let no Emirrant loose sight of the important fac
that our contracts with the Government of Texas ex
pre the lst day of July 1913, and that he must
only be in the Colony but that he must have selecte
his land, built house cabin thereon, and be resd
ing therein with his family by that day;--one day al
ter that dae, and the opportunity OF getting lands 70
nothing Is, perhaps lost for ever. Persons desirin
additional information by addressing the undersign
ed Trustees or either OF them post paid shall recev
prompt attention.
WILLIS STEWART,l Trustees qrMe
VIZ WIZ PETERs fBln and diIfs Isna dT'sra,l9n csDan
LOUISVILLE. SEPT. lsr, lSi7-sep. l4-lm