Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-02-29
Texas Emigration B Land Company.
3aOs acres Of land for S2O!--l6Oq Acres Of
:, land for $40!

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N We TEXAS EMlGaAfroN AND LAND COMPANY
IL having derived their Grant from the late
Republic OF Texas. by contracts made with the
| FFesident ther0f. under authority of the special
acts Of Congress. approved Ats February, tSIi
and 10th January, 943, granting lands 70 Emf
nIan:s, will continue TO give 800 acres OF and IN
families, and ] gu acres Of Iand to single men
over II geaEs ofage, until the lst day Of July,
l5ae, conditioned, that the fnmily shall pay S2U,
and she single man $40, for fhe SURVEYING fees
family, as defined in our contracts, mist con.
| sist Of. .AF p -ts1.tNtE
"a man AMI his wife with or without children. +"
IA wIdower with two or more children. if
males under IL years of age, If females unmaT-
ried."
"a widow with Two or more chiidfed; if males
under lIyears Of age, if females, unmarried -
"fwo single men Oyer the age of seventeen
years, each one being entitled to l6O acres. -
On his arrival in the Colony, The EmIgrant
should forthwith apply TO the agent of the Com
pany, Mr.. Henry o. Hedgcoxe, residing al Stew
aftsViue in Denton county, who will at all times
be ready to assist him in the 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 settled
ia the Colony il due time. D. s5.
Our Grant lies in the NORTHEASTERN part of
feRPs. between the 32nd and 34th degrees of
Latitude North, and 10 and % degrees OF Lon
gitude West, from Washington; beginning on the
south side OF Red River. at point y miles east
OF the False Gun ;hitta, running thence due
South 100 miles. thence East Cd miles, thence
North 100 miles. thence West l64 miles TO tn
beginning, having front on the nieanderngs of
Red River Of nearly 800 miles; and includes
within its limits the upper and lower Gross Tim
bers. and tbs head waters of the Brasas7and Trim
ICY Rivers, the Trinity being navigabe for Steam
Boats Of light dTaugh:, from the Inferior of the
Colony 10 the Gulf of Mexico into which il emp
ties, some IS miles from Galveston. and Red Riv-
err to the Mississippi, affoTdjng an outlet fer the
surplus productions off the country This portion
OF Texas is peculiarly adapted to the growth OF
wheat, experience within the last TWO years hay-
ing tested the fact that H. will produce 40 bushels
TO the acre, weighing 65 TO 10 pounds on the
bushel. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and Irish potatoes, peas. beans, malons garden
vegetable OF all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated muskeet grass which covers
the praisies and upon which cattle subsisi, and
keep fat during the winter, and re luru only 10
De OCCASIONALLY Sailed and kept together, to real
them in great numbers.
Ihs planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
the most productive. Emigrants should go on in
the fall or winter, so as to DE ready TO put in an
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
wisconsin and northern parts Of Ilino and In.
diana. should go through Missouri or Arkansas
to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson, Cjaffee,s
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into tie settlements
in the direction Of The forks oftho TYaity These
going from other sections of the Union, sout,
should so to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn, or NaiGhez, Miss. ,and thence across
by land; or TO New Orleans al thence by Ste am
Boat up Red River to Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place an agent will be stationed, wnr will
give eIngrans directions to their route by land
to Dallas anf Stewartsvil!e, distance of som
900 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indur
tTious, intelligent and moral people and mus
soon become the most populous part of Texas
The. Governments has recently forme the countie
of Greyson, Dallas, Denton, Collin and a part
OF Robertson and Navarro within the Grant IL
is decidedly the most healthy part Of the state the
lands having having gentle undulating surface
there are no ponds. swamps or mar hes, and no
local cause Ior disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months of
summer there is constant breeze playing over
;he pRaiEies, and tie nights are invariably cool;
the thermometer never rises above S5 to 80, and
i'll the winter never falls below 80 degrees Fab
renheitg 10 abounds in springs, aud at the depth
OF fifteen oP twenty feet, in the midst of the pra
RE. the best water can be had; all tie small
streams are peculiarly clear and crystal like =
Colonel William Myers who removed from Gar
rard county, Ky, asr fall, says iN letter dated
9th Nav, tS47-"I will not venture to tell nv
frienrs III Kentucky that the land here was Deter
than the best land i'll Kentucky, because they
would not believe il; but now | assert it, for the
'soil is deeper, being in many places five feet
and the hindest land 10 work ever put plough
III. verify believe that around the forks of The
trinity lies the largest body OF frst-rate land i'm
A - IN
Santa Fe, is only 600 miles by the old Spanish
trail and the newspapers in Texas are now advo-
eating the route up the Trinity, land from its forks
by land, as in every rosr preferable to the one
by Independence, Mo. Why should amigranis
think OF going TO Oregon or California when they
can obtain better land for nothing, so much near
or home?
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever offer on the continent OF America of getting
land FOR the mere cost of surveys and cost OF
deed Our Colony is enphatically the place
Tor Tn poor mans home: there he does not have
TO febu hls cattle tor SIX or seven months 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 Emigr0nt lose sight ofthe important fa I
that our contracts with the Government of Texas
expire on the LIST day of July, lS4S, and that he
must not only be III the Colony, but that he must
have selected his land, built house or cabin
thereon, and be residing therein with his family
by that day. day after that date, and the
opportunity fgetting lands for nothing is, per
'ps, lost for ever. Persons esiring additional
'"~mation, by addressing the undersigned Trus
60 or either fthem, post paid, shall receive
ompt atrention.
WILLIS STEwART,l Trustees ofthe
JOHN ]. SMITH, TEXAS Emigration
| W, G. PkFERs. and Land Company
louisville, Sept. Let 1917.
| or. Croix and N. E Rum, Holland Gin, NAL