Arkansas intelligencer., 1847-10-30

and 10th JanLary. lS43, granting II ndS To Emf
grants. will continue to give $50 acres Of land to
families. and IG0 acres of land 10 sns.c men
over IL years of age, until the 1st day of July,
lS4S, conditioned, that the family shall pay S2o-
and the single man SO, for the surveying fees
A family, defined in our Contracts, must con-
sist Of
~ and his wife, with or without chill
dren.''
"a widowcr with two or more children; if
males under IL years of age, if females unnlar-
ried.'
"a widow with two moro children; if males
under IL years OF age, IT females unmarried"
1.-Two single meu over the age of seventeen
years, each one being entitled to IG0 acres,''
On his ARRIVAL in tho Colony, the Emigrant
should forthwith apply to the agent Of the Com
pany, MIR. Henry o. Hedgcoxe, residing Ste
wartsvIle in Denton county. who will mt all times
be ready 10 assisi him in the selection of his
land, and enter the same books kept for that
purpose, a.Id give him a certificate thereof; which
certificate will be evidence of his having settled
in tine Colony in due time.
Our Grant lies in tho North. Ea stern part of
Texas. between the 32d and 3lth degrees of Lat.
iIude North, aud l9th and 22d degrees of Longi-
tIde West, from Washington; beginning on the
south side of RED river, at n point l2 miles cast
oil ire False Ouachtta. running thence due South
lOO miles, thence East l64 miles, thence North
100 miles. thence West l6i miles to the begin
n
river of nearly 800 miles; and includes within its
limits the Upper and Lower Cross Timbers, and
the head waters of the Brasos and Trinity rivers
The Trinity being navgable fer STEAMBOATS, Of
light drauGhi, from the interior Of the Colony 10
.he Gulf Mexico into which il cmp,ies, some %
miles from galveston, and Red river. TO the Mis-
sissippi, afforG;ng tt" outlet for the surplus pro-
ductons 81 The country. ms portion Of Texas
is peculiarly adapted to the grow III o:swheat, OK
tof
tho fact, that it will produce 40 bushels 10 tho
acre, weighing G5 10 70 pounds to tho bushe.--
Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet and Irish
potatoes, peas, beaas. melons, garden vegetables,
of all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco, and The
celebrated muskeCi grass which covers the prai-
ries and upon which cattle subsisi. and keep fat
during tho winter. and require only 10 be occa-
sionaliy sa'icd and kept together, they thom
in great numbers.
The planting season commences in February
and continues until July; bat the carly crops arc
most productive. Emigranis should go on in tho
tall or wIRter, so as TO be ready TO put in an carly
crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa Wiscon-
sin, and the northern parts of Illinois and Indiana.
should 90 through Missouri or Arkansas To VAN
BUREN. Fl. Smith, FIT. Towsoh, Cofee'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 20 TO Helena or Coumbia Ark Mem
by land; or to New Orleans. and thence by steam
boat up Red river 10 Shreveport, Louisiana. n,
which place an agent will be stationed who will
give the cmigranis directions us to their route bv
land 10 Dallas and Sewarsville distance OF
some %vv ...''~.
Our colony is rapidly filing up with nn indus
trious, intelligent and moral people. and tpust
soon become the most populoGs part of Texas.-
The Government has recently formed The coun-
los Of( nd
part of Robertson and Navarro within the Grant
II is decidedly the most healthy part OF thc State-
the lands having gently unduIaiing surface; -
there are no ponds, swamps or ma arshes, and
local cause for disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant During tho warmest months of
summer there is constant breeze playing over
the praries, and The nights invariably cool
the thermometer never rises So 20 90, nnd
III the winter never falls below 80 degrees fah-
renheli. !, abounds in springs, and at the depth
OF fifteen or twenty feet, in the midst of The pra-
rle, tho best water can be had; all the small
streams are peculiarly clear and cryslal-liae.-
Colonel William Myers, who removed thef from
Gnrrard county. XIV, last fall, says in n letter
dated Sih May. LSi7.-''l will not Venture 10 tell
my friends IN kentucky that the and here was bet
ter than the best land in Kentucky. because they
would not believe il; but now ! assert it. for the
s"iiis deeper, being in many places Eve feet. and
the kindesi land to work ever pa; a plough in-
verify believe that around the forks Of the Tri-
nlty, lies the largest body Of frs;.Iate land in
America" From the forks of Trinity 10 Santa
Fe. is only about 600 miles by the old Spanish
trail, and the newspapers in Texas are now ad-
vocaung The route up tho Trinity. ard from it's
forks by land as in every respect preferable TO
thc one by independence, Mo. WHY should En-
grants think of going to Oregon or California,
when they can obtain better land for nolhinr, sc
much nearer home
This IS perhaps. tho last o7porlpnity tha, will
ever oiler on the continent of 4 ,ncrica. of get,
ting lands for the mere cost of surveys and coS,
OF Deeds Our Colony is emphatically the plncc
Tor the poor mnn's home: there he does no, b,,o
10 feed his cattle for six or seven months IN -
years there ho will have n home mark, Co., .T
The surplus he can produce for ycays ~ oo,'a
and ~i'h industry aud economy, sp,,ed;lv hocoro'
rich. "y oeeo'ne
:, Le. no hm'gron' lose sigft of th,, imoortont
.oct tha' our contracts win the C,oror,,,pon, nr
Texas expire on the Is, day of InI, ,sas nd "l
that he must not ony be j.. Tho Colony hv, ,hn, T""
chin ,her"nn .o" tied MS land, built a house or
family bv ,,. ',hu DC residing therein with his
tho onno, ".a' oAy--onc day after that date. and
norh, ~ OF gotting land for nothing, is,