Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-05-02
Texas Emigration & Land Company.
$50 Acres IF land for $o!-l6O Acre. Q,
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/ n u0Vtua oeSlve1 tnetf Grant frOnl the late
sepublIe ot rexas. By conIras Is tnade with Ihe
r'esidsi I Iher"I. under authority nl Inc special
acIs Of Congress, ssppr',vad IL. February, :o4,
'nh 10Th January, SAB, granting lands IL Emi-
,Ianis. will continue togige 80 acres"I and n
'amilie , aud i6t acres Vi lant 90 single men
aver u ears Of ag+, until Iis iss dsy,0fs July,
81 conditioned, that the family snail pay 5 -,
~, the single man 80 iOr the -iIrvsyII. fees -
h'nily,s as deaned la our. eoHlracts, INST con-
list Of
- man Hn his wi &. win or with0utchllIr o
a widoweT with IwH or moe cniIdren. il
naiss Under I1yea:s VI age, II females unnaT-
"a widow With two or move chiIdred; if IN ,I..
Inder u years Of rgs, n fem lies, Sunn.rrie,i
"f|o single men DFei chs age of s., sntsen
vears, each 0ile being enIiIlad 10 81 acres :"
Tn mis- arI'vRfn III Ihs Coj0hy. Inc EnIgrqn,
'opld DE'iW'ih apply. 90 tue agent of the Com
pa"y, W. Henry . isdgcoxe, residing al stew
aHsvllIe Ia Oentn county. who will al all times
70 really to assi1IhID in ihe selection Of his land
'ld enter ihs same on books kept for that pur.
lose, and give him a cerlidca 0 therefor: which
certificate will De svIisnce Of his having Settled
II. tie Colony i's due time.
Our Grant lbs In Gn0 North Eastern part OF
FsE q. shetHesn Ins 39nd and Gath degrees OF
t.afitnde Norm, AMI ~ and 3! degrees OF Ion
gitude Wssl, from Washington; beginning Oh the
'nuth side Of Red River, at a point l.! miles east
Ut tlS False Ou0 ;niIta, running thence due
south LOO miles. thence East I64 miles, Ihence
NorIh iU0 miles. then"o West l64 miles 10 IN
1ssinling having front OH the neandsrings OF
Rad River of nearly 900 miles: and includes
within iI9 IlmiIs Ghe upper and lower Cross Tim
hers, and tls lead waters Of the Grassland Trim
ty diVsTs, che Trinity being navigaole forS:eaal
boaIs Of light dTaugh:, from the inferior Of the
Colony 10 Ihe Gulf Of Mexico into which il emp
tlss, some - miles from Galveston, ann Red Riv-
Or. TO the Mississippi, aording all outlet for the
uTpius productions Of the country. This portion
u Texas is peculiarly adapted tothe growth Of
Wheat, experience within the last two wears hav-
ing tested Ihe fact, that will produce 40 bu she
30 the acre, weighing IS to 10 poun'is on the
nushe'. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet
ind Irish potatoes. peas. beans. malOns garden
vegetable OF all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
'nd the celebrated muskeet grass which covers
The prRiEles and upnn which cattle subsisl, and
keep IaI during the winter, and re Iuirs only 10
b. OCCASIONALLY sailed and kept together, to rear
them In great numbers.
Tbs planting season commences in February
md continues until July; but Ihe early crops are
The nos' pro ILo'ive. EGmisrants should 90 on IN
The tall "r winter. so as In be ready to put IN al
aa1ly crop Those g,ing from Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin, an northern parts IF IIlino and In.
tiaMs. should 60 through Missouri or Arkansas
30 Van Buren,, Fon 3IniIa, Fort Cowson, ~ lffae's
'IaHloI or Pine Bluff, thence into the seiIleu nts
~ che direction Of she forks oGtho Trinity. Those
going from other Sections Of the Union, sout.',
6nUL d go "a Helena or Colurnhia, Ark, Mem
uhIs, Tenn, or Nsichez, Miss ,and thsnce across
" land: OF 60 NeW Orleans Al thence by Ste am
boat up Red River TO Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place an agent will be stationed, Wnc will
give eInigEaNie directions "a 20 their route By land
20 Dallas sHt SiswaTtsvilis, a distance Of som
30 miles
Our coloHy IL Hspidly filling up with an indu-
,sious, intelligent and moral people and mus
snon bao0Ins Ins INST popuoIA part Of Csxas
The government hAS sscenIly forne the countie
It Greys'H, Dallas, Denton, Collin and a part
If Robertson aud Navarro within the Grant. Il
Is denlde lily the nosi healthy of the state ihe
AL Ia having having u gentle IN Iuiating surface
'hsTe aye no ponds, sWamps nT mar mes, and no
local cause Tor disease. Ene atmosphere ts pure
and pleasant. During the Warmest months OF
summer there ~ a constant breeze playing over
me pEaiTies, and the nIgnIs are invariably cool:
.ne the momaiIT neveT rises above 55 20 80, and
~ IIe winter never falls below 80 degrees Fan
snheiI is aboTnds in springs, aud at the depth
Of fifteen or twenty feet, 10 the mi si 81 the pra
ria, tis beat water can be had; all d small
streams aHH peculiarly clear aud crystui like -
noudl william Myers who removed from Ira r
r'rd co'MIy, Ky Iast fall, AHys ir letter dated
lih Nav, '5I7-"I " i'll not venture to tell my
tEIends in Kentucky that the land here WINS DETER
'han the best land III Kentu"ky, because they
"oud not bsllsvs il: but now | assert il, for the
oil is deeper, being in many places five feet
mi the kindest land 10 work ever put plough
III. verify believe that around the FORKS of The
trinity. lies she laIges Iiody OF rsi-rate land in
n1a HOYh rs eI,a in;e
santa Fe, is only 60J miles by the old Spanish
'raii and the newspapers an Texas are 40 y advo-
eating She route up che Fsiniy, irun it's forks
o' land, as Ia every rosI preferable the one
~ Independence, No. Why should amigranis
think Of goIng 20 Osegun or ifornia when they
al obtain better land for nothing, so much near
At nome? ..
This is. perhaps. the last opportunity that will
ever offsr Oh tho continent OF America of getting
lad TOR che mere cost of surveys and cost Of
Iced Our Colony is emphatically the place
tor 'n poor IN ms home: Ihers he does not have
10 fee' hIs Cattle tor SIX or seven months in the
wear; tleEe 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 Eanigrnnt lose sight ofthe important IN A
that our cL.I with Gne Government of Texas
'RpTe on tn st day of July, 1913. ami that he
nut not OF be Ia the Colony, but that he must
rave selected his land, built house or cabin
'hefson, aud be EesIdIIg therein with his family
~ that day;-one day AFTER that date, and the
opportunity igettug lands for nothing is, per
'ps, lost for ewes. Persons de firing adciti 9nal
'''''natIon. by addressing the Undersigned Trus
90 II either ofthem, post paid, shall receive
1nDt stFsntion. ~ 50 - "a -re ...~
Willie STEwART,I Trustees ofMe
JIM SMIrH, TEXAS Emigration
e. PsrERs. aud Land Company
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