Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-03-07
Texas Emigration & Land 0onIpa1riE
$40 sacres ref lGnd.for S20!-I6O .4erss-sof
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- Il Is
E1NAE TRxAs EM,GH 1rroS A ID LAND ComPANY
| IL having derived their Giant from she late
Republic OF Texas by contra ts made with Ihe
Psesdegt theToI. Under authority OF The special
acIs Of Congress, Sppr.ved 4tS February, ssh
aud 18th January, l543, gnniing lsnds ~ Emil
nIanss. will continue give 3ya acres nf'aId 10
tamiiie9 aud I6g acres Of land 30 single men
over II FEARS Of age, until lie lst day Of July.
I6d6! c6nditioIed, tirat she hinily shall pay S!ia
and she singls man 10 Tor the s"rveyln- fees -
s family, as defined in our Contracts, mist con-
| slss Of diSui 9df va .tlf7. adg anF
man an his wife with. or without children .
''A widower with Iwo or moe chikIre,, il
males under II yeas qfsgs, il EelnhIes unrnar,
''A widow with swo or.a,e 's childred; If males
under years Of Hge, il females, unmarried, -
Two single men owes the age of ss,enteen
yenfs' each Que being entitled ioI 60 acres.''
On his arrival in the COLONY, the Enrgr,u,
should fnrIlIwiIh apply. 10 me agent of the Com.
Pany. MT. Henry q. Hedgcoxe, residing al Stew
ar'sVIIle In Osntn county, who will at all times
De seady So assist him in she ssleclian of his land
anu enter lhe same on bonks Kept for that pur.
noses anu give him acerlhca'e therefor; which
certihcaie will be evidence OF his having settled
in the Colony in due time.
: Our GRAFT lies in the North stern part of
FeA 's' Det~esn she Bend and 34th degrees OF
Latitude North, aNdlI9 aud {! ssdsgToes Of Ion.
gttude Wesls from Washington; beginning on the
south side OF Red River, at a point 3 miles east
OF the False Qua :hittA, running thence cue
South 100 miles. thence East 81 miles, thence
North iUO miles. then"o West l64 mile, to tn
orslnning. having front OH the meandcrngs of
heel, Rive! OF nearly 300 miles; and. includes
wiihIn IIa limits the upper and lower C.oss Tim
hers, and ths 1ead waters of tile BFasas and rr,n
ty Hivers, the Trinity being naViga6Ie for Sea 7,
iSoats Of light dTaugh:, from the :near,or of the
Colony 10 the Calf of UeKico into wnicIi il emu-
ties, some % miles from Galveston. ana Red itIv.
err, 10 the Mississippi, affording an outlet fer the
-urp!us productions Of the cotntry This ,Ior,on
OF texns Is peculiarly adapted 90 the growth o
wheat, experience within ina ist NV ears na.-
ing testei Ile fact, that will produce 40 bushels
10 she acre, weighing 65 10 ~ pounds on the
0ushe'. Indian corr, rye. barley, oats, swee,
aud irish potitOes, peas, b ana, IN lions garden
vegetable Oh all km'Is, cotton, hemp aud tobacco,
and the celebrated nTskett grass whic:, cnve,>
The pgaries ann up ~ which cattle sIbsisI, agia.
keep TAT during the winter, and re luir4 only IL
b. OCCASIONALLY saltei and kept together TO real
them In great numbers -e.a sa ...
fhs planting se4snn commences in February
AMI continues until july bat the early crops are
the mos; protIc'i"e. Finigmnts shIuId GU o.l il,
the tall "r winter. go as IN really TO put IN an
early crop Those ring from Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin, and Northern parts cf Iliino 8 and In.
diana, snnuid GO Through Missouri or Arkansas
TO Van buSen, Fort Smith, Fort Fowson, - lffse's
SiatIOI or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlement.
in che direction Of tho forks oftho Trinity. These
going from other SECTIONS of The Union, sout =.
snud,d go TO Helena Or Columbia, Ark, Mem
uhis, Tenn, or Naichez. Mss. ,and thence across
by land; or 60 New Orleans III d thence by STE sam
boat up Red River 70 Shreveport, Louisiana, AT
which place an agent will be Stationed, wn,. wi.
give eInIgrnnis directions as 10 their by an
% Dallas an1 StewaTtsvil'e, a distance OF som
40 milas ..r
Dur colony is rapidly filling up with an indu-
tsious, intelligent and moral people aad mus
soon becnma the in1st pnpulO = part of raxas-
The government has recently Gorme the countie
1t GrRys u, Dallas, Daatnn, Collin aud a par
ut Rabcrtsun aud Navarro within the CSram Il
Is decide lily ihe healthy var, of The Stale tine
Hn1s having having gentle IN IIIating surface
there are no pom Ia, swamps mar mes anu no
I"ca cause 'nr disease. fine atmp|pInre i pur,
AMI pleasant. During the Wdrnest months OF
| 5I'nIntr there ia cMstInt breeze play ing owe.
ihe pTairies, ard the uIgnIs are Invariany coOl
She The In9mAIIr never rises above 81 t1 30, AN
| IN the winter never falls below 3 degrees Fan-
rehheit. it abOHhds III springs, aud at the depth
Ut fifteen or twenty feet, in Ie mi Isl "f the pra
RE, tas oert water can be hal; I'll q e small
| streams aIs peculiarly clear and crystal like =
Coonel William MYess who removed from Gar
rir county, Ky last fall, says IL a letter dated
! olh Nav, .ac41-"I will not venture 10 tell my
friends in Kentucky that the land here was Detter
Ihan the best land la Kentucky, hecause they
would not believe il +; but now | assert il, for the
soil is deepen, being in many places five feet
AMI the hlniIest land I'D work ever put d plough
| III. verify believe that around the forks of the
trinity. lies Ihe largest body at ist-rate land ill
Amsnca." From Gae folks of the Trinity to
santa Re, is Only co. miles by the old Spanish
irnii and the newspapers IN Texas are nov advo-
eating the route up the TriniIy,and rom its forks
by land, as IN every rosI ect preferable to the one
by Independence, Mo. Why should emgran. t.
'hik OF going 70 Oregon or CaIif1rmia whan they
can obtain better land for nothing, SO much near
| er home? So s& 81 "a SEE
This is, perhaps. the last opportunity that WiI
ever oHar oh The continent OF A;ne lea o. getting
luHt or the mare cost Of surveys aud cost uI
deed Our colony is emphalicalIy the place
tor ~ pOprmIn' IOms: .here he doe not nav,
30 iee, al seattle tor SIX ellsmiun.as in the
wear; tlere he will hnve Il home ia iket Tor "A
the surplus he can produce tnr yea q come, ami
with Industry and eC1n0ray, sp -e lily becomes rich
Let no Em grant loss sight Oftne mD1rtantfa
that our cLn' acts with the Gogefnnanl If Texas
expire on IN ST day Of JIIy, 1919, and thatt :
'nusi not o. 7 be ia the Cn.ohy, bYI that he mus
nave selected his land, huiI hnuse or cabin
'herenm, and be res'd'ig thereu 'rith his family
i by that 'Iay;-one day after that date, and the
opportunity ri getting Itnds for netting is, per
aps, lost fnr ever. Persons de irimi arlniriana
,"''natiOn. b. addressing the Undersigned rris
g. Ir either. them, post paid, shall receive
oD'pl attention. -
WILLIS STEwART.I TRUSTEES oftte
JJHN J SMITH, Teas Emigration
| -. -:- Z. PkrERs, aud Lqad Company
IA L. :sVille, Sept. LIST lsa7 ia =. \ Is. -