Arkansas intelligencer., 1847-10-23
NAMES.
[Cost of Advertising, So 90 per tract. !
TEXAS GRAFTON AND
LAND COMPANY.
800 ACRES OF LAND FOR $40! leo ACRES OF LAM
FOR Sl0!
vH7HE Texas EMleaArrov LAND CompsxY bav

THSHE TEXAS EMIGRATION LAND COMPANY hav.
~ ing derived their Grant from the late Re.
public OF Texas, by contracts made with the
President thereof. under authority of the special
acts of Congress, approved 4th February. 1871
and 10Th January, lS43. granting lands to Emil
grants, will continue to give 320 acres of land TO
families. and I6O acres of land TO single men
over II years Of age, until the Ist day of July.
lS4S, conditioned, that the family shall pay $40
and The single man $40, for the surveying fees.
family, as defined i'll Contracts, must con-
sist Of
"a man and his wife, with or withou, chill
dren.''
"a widower with two or more children; if
males under II years of age, if females unmar-
ried.''
"A widow with two or more children; if males
under II years of age, if females unmarried"
1.-Two single men over the age of seventeen
years, each one being entitled to l60 acres.''
On his arrival III the Colony, the Emgra Mt
should forthwith apply to the agent of the Com
pany, Mr.. Henry o. HedgcOxe, residing at Ste
wartsville in Denton county. who will at al times
be ready 10 assist him in the selection of his
land, aud enter the same on books kept for that
purpose, aid give him certificate thereof; which
certificate will be evidence Of his having settled
in the Colony in due time.
Our Grant lies in the North Eastern part of
Texas, between the 32d and 9 ilh degrees of Lat
ilude North and 18th and 22d degrees Of I.ongi-
tude West, from Washington; beginning on The
south side of Req river, at point II miles east
of the False Ouachitta, running thence due South
100 miles, thencc East l64 miles, thence North
100 miles, thence West l64 miles to the bcgin-
ming, leaving trout on the meandorngs of Red
river of nearly 300 miles; and includes within its
limits the Upper and Lower Cross rimbers, and
the head waters of the Brasos and Trinity rivers
the Trinity being navigable for steamboats, of
light draugh, from the interior Of the Colony to-
the Gulf Mexico into which it empties, some %
miles from Galveston, and Red river. 10 the Mis-
slssppi, atiordIng outlet for the surplus pro-
ductions of the country. This portion of Texas
is peculiarly adapted to the growth of wheat, OK
perience within the last two years having tested
the fact, that it will produce 40 bushels 10 the
acre, weighing 90 10 20 pounds to tho bushel.-I
Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet and Irish
potatoes, peas, beans. melons, garden vegetables,
of all kinds, cotton. hemp and tobacco, and The
celebrated muskeet grass which covers the prai-
rles and upon which cattle subsist. and keep fat
during the winter, and require only 10 be occa-
sionaly salted and kept together, they rear them
in great numbers.
The planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops ire
most productive. Emigrnnts should go on in the
fall or winter, so as to be ready TO put in IN early
crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa, Wiscon-
SIN, and the northern parts OF Illinois and Indiana
should go through Missouri Arkansas to VAN
BUREN, Fl. Smith, Fit. Towson, Coffee's Station
or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements in the
direction of the Forks of the Trinity. Those
going from other sections of the Union, south,
should 90 TO Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn, or Natchez, Miss, and thence across
by land; or to New Orleans, and thence by steam
boat up Red river 10 Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place an agent will be stationed. who will
give the emignnts directions to their route by
land TO Dallas and Stewartsyille, a distance of
some 200 miles.
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indus
trious, intelligent and moral people. and mus,
soon become the most popuous part of Texas
The Government has recently formed the coun-
ties of Grayson, Dallas, Denton, Collin, and "a
part of Robertson and Navarro within the Grant.
II is decidedly the most healthy part of the State,
the landsshaving gently undulaiing surface; =
there arez5io ponds, swamps marshes, and no
local cause for disease. The atmosphere is pure
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