Arkansas intelligencer., 1847-11-06

anu loln January, 1915, granting lands 10 I.m-
grants, will continue togive $40 acres Of land to
families, and I60 acres of land to sis5yle men
over IL years of age, until the Ist day of Julv
1913, conditioned, that the family shall pay 500
and the single SO, for the surveying fees
4. family, as defined in our Contracts, must con-
sist Of
"a man and his wife, with or withou, chiI.
dren."
ga widower with two or more children: IL
males under II years of age, if females unn1ar-
ried.''
"a widow with two moro 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 in the Colony, tho Emigrant
should forthwith apply to the agent of the Com.
pany, Mr. Henry o. Hedgcoxe, residing at Ste
wartsyi.le in Denton county, who will al all times
be ready to assist him in the Selection of his
land. and 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 34th degrees of Lat
itude North. and 10Th and 22d degrees of Longi-
tude West, from Washington; beginning on the
south side of Red RIVER, at a point IL miles east
of the False Ouachitta, running thence due South
100 miles, thence East l64 miles, thence North
100 0iles, thence West l64 miles TO the beoin-
ming, leaving front on the meanderings of Red
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 for Steamboats, of
light draught, from the interior of the Colony To-
the Gulf Mexico into which it empiies, some 25
miles from Galveston, and Red river to the Mis-
slssppi, attordIng an outlet for the surplus pro-
ductions of the country. This portion Of Texas
Is peculiarly adapted to the growth of wheat, ex-
Perience within the last Two years having tested
the fact, thai. 1t will produce 40 bushels to tho
acre, weighing 65 TO 20 pounds 20 the bushel.---
Indian corn. rye, barley, oats, sweet and Irish
potatoes, peas, beans. melons, garden vegetables
of all kinds. cotton. hemp and tobacco and Tho
celebrated muskeet grass which covers the prai-
rles and upon which cattle subsist. and keep fat
during the winter, and require only TO be occa-
sonalIy saied and kept together, they rear tbem
in great numbers.
he planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
most productive. Emigrants should 90 OH in the
fall or winter, so as to be ready to put an early
crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa Wscon-
sn, and the northern parts of Illinois and indiana
should go through Missouri or Arkansas to VAN
BUREN, Fl. Smith, IT. Towson Coffee's Station
or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements ~ the
direction of The Forks of the Trinity. Those
going from other sections of the Union south
should 60 to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem.
phis, Tenn, or Natchez, Miss, and thence across
boat up Red river 10 Shreveport, Louisiana, a,
which place an agen; will be stationed, who will
give the emigran!s directions 20 their route by
land 10 Dallas and SlewartsviIle, a distance Of
some 200 miles.
Our colony is rapidly filling UP with an indus
trlous, intelligent and moral people, and must
soon become the most popuous part OF Texas
The Government has recently formed the coun-
ties of Grayson, Dallas, Denton, Collin and {.
part of Robertson and Navarro within The Grant.
It is decidedly the most healthy part OF the State
the lands having gently undualing surface =
there are no ponds, swamps marshes and no
local cause for disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During tho warmost months of
summer there is a constant breeze playing, over
the prairies, and The nights are Invariably cool:
the thermometer rises over S5 10 90 md
IN the winter never falls below 80 degrees Fab
renhelt. 1t abounds in springs and at the depth
OF hleen or twenty feet, in the midst of The prai-
RE, the best water can be had; all Ito small
streams are seculiaNy clear and cryscal.bke.-
Colonel William Myers, who remove, theyo from
Garrard county, KY, last fall, saws. in a letter
daEed Sin May, lS47,-"l viii mt venture to tell
my friends IN kentucky that III land hero was bet
ter than The best land in Ke,.ucky, becense ,hev
would not believe it bnt Low assert IT,. for tn
- ueepe,' pe."9 IN many places five feet, and
ihe kihoes' lana 10 wofk ever put "a plough ill.,
verify believe that around the forks of the Fri.
ni'y' i'es me largest body of frst-rate land in
america. From The forks of Trinity 10 Santa
re. Is only about 500 miles by the old Spanish
trai', ana tho newspapers in Texas are now ad.
roco'ing 'he route up the Trinity, and from its
FORKS oy aand, as in every respect preferable TO
Inc orc by independence, Mo. Why should EN-
isfo MS think of going to Oregon or California,
wneh they can obtain better land for nothing. sc
much nearer home?
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever oiier on the continent of America, Of get
ting lands for the nero cost of surveys and Cost
OF deeds. Our Colony is emphalcally the nace
Tor the poor mans home: there he does not have
10 iced his cattle for six or seven months in The
year; there he will have q home market for nil
the surplus ho can produce for years to come.
and with industry and economy, speedily become
rich.
Let no Enigrant lose sight of the important
loct that our ccltracts with the Government NJ
Texas expire on The Is, day of Jolly, 1918. and
that he must not only be in tho Colony. but TIM,
he must have selected his land, built n bouse or
cabin thereon, and be residing therein with his
family by that day;-onc day after thai, date. and
the opportunity of getting land FOR nothing is.
perhaps lost Tor ever. Persons desiriro ndd;'
tiOnal information. hv adj. . ~