Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-01-18
Texas Emigration & Land Company.
$40 .acres Of land for SaO!-l6O .aeres q
land for $40!

IF1NHE TKxAs EmIcaATIoN AND LAND COMPANY
| having derived their Grant from the late
| Republic OF Texas, by contracts made with the
| President Thereof. under authority of the special
acts of Congress, approved 4th February, 1871
| and 10Th January, l543, granting lands to Emil
nrans, will continue 90 give $50 acres OF land N
families, and 100 acres Of land TO single men
over IL years Of age, until the lst day Of July,
I646, conditioned, that the family shall pay $40,
aud the single man $40, for the surveying fees =
A family, as defined in our contracts, must con-
sist Of
"A man an hiswife, with. or without children -
ga wIdower with two or more children, if
males under II years of age, il females unmar-
ried." Jts at r1{fl.f6 gI. Es~. ..Et
ga widow with TWO or more childred: il males
under Il years of age, if females, unmarried -
"Fwo single men over the age of seventeen
yeare, each one being entitled to l60 acres.''
On his arrival in the Colony, the Enigrqnt
should forthwith apply TO the agent of the Com.
pany, Mr.. Henry .. Hedgcoxe, residing al Stew
arlsVile in Dentnn county, who will at all times
De ready to assist him in the selection of his land
and enter the same on books kept for that pur.
pose, and give him a certificate therefor; which
certificate will be evidence Of his having settled
il the Colony in due time.
Our Grant lies in the North Eas tern part of
Fexls, between the 32nd and Gath degrees of
Latitude North, and ~ and y degrees OF Lon
gtude West, from Washington; beginning on the
south side of Red River, at point IL miles east
of the False QUA ;hitta, running thence due
South 100 miles. thence East l64 miles, thence
North ITO miles. thence West I64 miles to the
beginning. having front OIL the meanderings of
Red River of nearly 300 miles; and includes
within Its limits the upper and lower Cross Tim
bers, and the head waters of the Brasas'an Trin-
ty Rivers, the Trinity being naviga6le for Steam
Boats Of light dYaugh:, from the interior of the
Colony to the Gulf of Mexico into which it emp
ties, some 25 miles from Galveston, and Red Riv-
er, to the Mississippi, afordng all outlet for the
surplus productions of the country. This portion
of Texas is peculiarly adapted TO the growth OF
wheat, experience within the last TWO years hav-
ing tested the fact, that will produce AZ bushels
10 the acre, weighing 65 to ~ pounds on the
bushel. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and Irish potatoes, peas, beans, malons garden
vegetable or all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated muskeet grass which covers
the praiTles and upon which cattle subsisi, and
keep fat during the winter, and re luire only to
BE- occasionally sailed aud kept together, TO real
them in great numbers.
The planting Sc ason commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
the most productive. ltmgranss should go on in
the fall Or winter so as 10 DE ready TO put in an
.
Wisconsin and northern parts of Illino s and In.
diana, should go through Missouri or Arkansas
10 Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson, Goffse's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
i'll the direction OF the forks oftho Triaity. Those
going from other SECTIONS of the Union, soutl,
should go 20 Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn, or NaIchez, Miss. ,and thence across
by land or to New Orleans al d thence by Ste am
Boat up Red River to Shreveport, Louisiana, at
nloC mil ha 1
give emigranis directions to their by land
TO Dallas and Stewartsville, a distance Of som
300 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indus
H:iOus, intellIgens and moral people and mus
snon become the most pOpuous part of Texas
The Government has recently forme the countie'
of Grsyson, Dallas, Denton, Collin and a part
of Robertson and Navarro within the Grant. 1t
is decidedly the most healthy part of the state,t
lands having having gentle unduating surface ;
there are no ponds, swamps or hes, and no
local cause Tor disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months of
summer there is constant breeze playing over
the prairies, and the nights are invariably cool;
the Thermometer never rises above S5 TO 80, and
III the winter never falls below 81 degrees Fab
renheit. IL abounds in springs, aud at the depth
of fifteen oP twenty feet, in the midst Of the prai
RE, rhe best water can be had; all q e small
streams peculiarly clear and crystal like -
Colonel William Myers who removed from CAT
TIrd county, Ky, last fall, says il letter dated
9th Nav, io47-''I will not venture TO tell my
friends i'll Kentucky that the land here was better
than the best land i'll Kentucky, because they'
would not believe it; but now | assert il, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places five feet
and the kindest land 10 work ever put plough
III. | verify believe that around the forks of the
Trinity. lies the largest hody Of frst-rate land in
America" From the forks of the Trinity to
Santa Fe, is only 600 miles by the old Spanish
trail and the newspapers in Texas are nov advo-
eating the route up the Trinity, and from its forks
by land, as i'll every rosr ect preferable to the
by Independence, Mo. Why should amigrau,s
think OF going to Oregon or California when they
can obtain better land for nothing, so much near
er home2
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever offer on the continent OF America of getting
lunds for the mere cost of surveys and cost OF
deeds. Our Colony is emphatcally the place
for the pour mans home: there he does not have
90 feed his cattle tor six or seven months in the
year; there he will have Il home market for all
the surplus he can produce for years TO come, and
with industry and economy, speedily become rich.
Let no Emigrnnt lose sight of the important ia t
that our contracts with the Government of Texas
expire OIL the LIST day of July, IS45, and that he
musi Dot onIy DC IN the Oolony1 Out th0t ne must
have selected his land, built house or cabiD
thereon, and be residing therein with his family
by that day;-onr day after that date, and the
opportunity of getting lands for nothing is, per.
haps, lost for ever. Persons desiring additional
information, by addressing the Undersigned Trus.
tees or either of them, post paid, shall receive
prompt attention.
WILLIS STEwART,) Trustees ofthe
JOHN ). sMrru, Texas En.igratior.
W. G. PETERs, and Land Company.
Louisville, Sept. LIST lo47.