Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-12-14

" VIE IEXAs EMIGRATION AND LAND COMPANY
Il having derived their Grant from the late
Republic OF Texas, by conlras is made with the
PresiGer ther0l. under authority of the special
acts of Congress, approved 4tk February, .o4l
and 10th January, LS43, granting lands 70 Emil
mans, will continue 10 give 32p acres OF land
| families, and i6l ncres Of land TO single mon
| over IL years of age, until the LIST day of July,
l545, conditioned, that The frmiIy snail pay $50,
and the single man $40, for the surveying; fees -
family, as defined in our contracts, mist con-
sist of
"a man an hiswife. wiIh,o or without children
GA wIdOwer with two or more children, if
males under IL years Of age, il females unmar-
red"
"a widow with two or mere chldred; if mnles
under Il years of nge, if females, unmarried "
"Two single men owes the age of seventeen
years, each one being entitled TO l6O acres.''
On his arrival in the Colony, the Emlgr1nt
should forthwith apply to the agent of the Com
pany, MIR. Henry y. Hedgccxe, residing at Stew
artsviIle i'll Denton county, who will nj all times
be ready to assist him in tho 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 se,t ed
ia the Colony il due time.
Our Grant lies in the NORTHEASTERN part of
Texas, between the Bend and 34th degrees of
Latitude North, and - and p degrees Of Lon
SlhuuS w cStS ITOIl " aSnInSLOOi beginning the
south side of Red River. point : miles cast
of tine False Qua .hitta, running thence due
! south 100 miles. thence East 81 miles, thence
North luO miles, thence West l64 mile, to IN
beginning, having front the neandcrings 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 Trim
| ity Rivers, the Trinity being navigable for Steam
| Boats of light draugh:, from the Inferior of the
| Colony n Gt,lf IF Movino
| ties, some Is miles from Galveston, and Red Riv-
er, to the Mississippi, affording 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 j. will produce 40 bushel\
TO the acre, weighing IS to ~ pounds on the
busheI. Indian corI, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and trisn potatoes, peas, beans, malOns garden
vegetable OF all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
| and the celebrated muskeet grass which covers
The prairles and upon which cattle subsisI, and
keep fat during the winter, and re lurs only IL
be occasionally sailed and kept together, to rear
| them i'll great numbers.
| Tbs planting SO lson commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
| the most productive. Immigrants should z } Oh in
the tall or winter, so as 10 &C ready to put III all
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
| Wisconsin and northern parts cf Limo and In.
| "'o'uS eIINuIu IIIISuSu V'lS~uulI Ut sAlkanSdS
to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson, ;;offee's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into tie settlement.
III the direction of the forks 0itho Fri ty. These
going from other sections of The Union, soui,
should go 20 Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn, or Naichez, Miss, and thence across
| by laud or 10 New Orleans al d thence by Steam
| Boat up Red River 20 Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place an agent will be stationed, wn,' viii!
give engrants directions as to their route by anG
| - Has, -.
300 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with all induc
isious, Intelligent ami moral people and mus
| soon become the most populoIs part OF raxls.
he government has recently iorme the countiee
| VI Graysrn, Dallas, Denton, Collin AID parI
| OF Robertson and Navarro within the Grant. Il
is decidedly the healthy part of the stale, the
| lands having having gentle uniulatng surface;
| there are no ponds, SwaInps or mar hes, and no
local cause ;or disease. The atmosphere Is pure
| and pleasant. During the warmest months of
| summer there is a constant breeze playing over
| ;he pEaries, and the nights are invariably cool
she thermometer never rises above IS to 80, ana
| i'll the winter never falls below 81 degrees FAN
| renheit II aboTnds in springs, aud at the depth
OF fifteen or twenty feet, in The midst nf the pral
| RE, tas best water can be had; all Il e small
streams ale peculiarly clear aud crystal like -
COLONEL William Myers who removed from Har-
ard county, Ky, last fall, says IN letter dated
| SIh Nav, lS47-"I will not venture 10 tell ny
friends in Kentucky that the land here was DETER
than the best land in Kentucky, because they
would not believe it; but now l assert it, for the
! soil is deeper, being in many places five feet
| and the kindest land Id work ever put plough
| III. verify believe that around the FORKS OF The
Trinity. lies the largest body Of tTst-rate land in
America" From the folks OF the Trinity to
santa Re, is only 60J miles by the old Spanish
trall and the newspapers in Texas are nov advo-
eating the route up the Trinity,and from its FORKS
oV land, as III every resi- ect preferable to the
by Independence, Mo. Why should emigranis
mink OF going to Oregon or California whan they
can obtain better land for nothing, so much near
| er home!
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever offer oh the continent of America OF getting
lands for the mere cost of surveys and cost OF
deeds. Our colony is emphatically the place
for the pour m ms home: .here he does not have
20 feed his cattle Tor six or seven mon:ns 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 become rich.
Let no Emgrnnt lose sight the important IA t
that our contracts with the Government of Texas
expire on the LIST day of July, IS4S, and that he
must not only be ia the Colony, but that he must
: nave selected his land, built house or cabin
.hereons and be residing therein with his family
oy mat day ;-one day after that date. and ,hr
opportunity OF getting lands Tor npth;ng Is. nsr
haps, lost for ever. Persons se.irin. adIiti mai
Information, by addressing the Undersigned RI.
tees OF either OF them, post paid, shall receive
prompt attentions.
i WILLIS STEWART, Trustees efa.e
w. c. PErERs. and Lsnd CSuaoan '.
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