Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-01-11
Texas Emigration & Land Company.

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[FENHE Texas EMGRATIoN AND LAND COMPANY
I B having derived their Grant from the late
Republic OF Texas, by contracts made with the
Presidert therof. under authority.of the special
! acts of Congress, approved 4tS February, .o4i
and 18th January, lS43, granting lands TO Emit
nran:s, will continue 10 give 800 acresoi and %
families, and 100 acres OF land to single. men
over IL years of age, until the lst1 day of y ply.
I848, conditioned, that the family shall pay $50,
ana the single man $40, for the Surveying fees =
A family, as defined in our contracts, must con-
| sist Of - IN "a
@ATmanian'I hiswife, with. or without children y
ga wldower with two or more lchiIdren, if
males under II years Of age, if. females, unmar-
| ried pr f1CY sJ4I3 8fS FlHElC4 BUS i
ga widow with two or more chldred: if, males
under | years of nge, if females, unmarried y ss
'tTwo single men over the age af Seventeen,
years, each one being entitled to 100 acres -
I sOnihi arrival in the Colony the Emigrant
should forthwith apply to the agent of the Cons
pany,. Mr. Henry o. Hedgcoxe, residing at Stew
artsVille in Denton county, who will at all times
be ready to assist him in the selection of MS land
and enter the same on boaEs skept sfor that pur.
pose, and give him a. certificate therefor; which
certificate will beevidence Of his having settled
| ia tie Colony in due time.
| Our Grant lies in the NORTHEASTERN part of
! Texas. between the 32nd and 34th degrees of
Latitude North, and l9 and p degrees Of =, ton
gitdde West, from Washington beginning OF the
south sidedf Red River, at a point II miles east
of the False Ouaahitta,s running thence due
South 100 miles. thence East 81 miles, thence
North ito miles, thence West l64 miles to The
brginning, having trout OIL the meandsrihgs of
Red River of neary 300 miles; and includes
within its limits the upper and lower Gross Him
bers, and the head waters Of the Brasas and Trim
Ity Rivers, the Trinity being navigaole for Steam
Boats of light dTaugh:, from the interior of the
Gloomy TO the Gulf of Mexico into which it emp
ties, some % miles from Galveston. and Red Riv
er, to the Mississippi, aiordng outlet fer the
surplus productions of the country This portion
of Texas is peculiarly adapted -tothe growth OF
wheat, experience within the last two years hay
ing tested the fact, that will produce 40 bushels
10 the acre, weighing 65 to 10 pounds on the
bushel. Indian cora, rye, barley, oats, sweet
! and Irish potatoes, peas, beans, melons garden
vegetable OF all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated muskeet grass which covers
The prairles and upon which cattle subsis, and
keep fat during the winter, and re Iuire only TO
be occasionally sailed and kept together, TO real
| them i'll great numbers. 8 E Ass. f...s .a.
| Tbs planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
| the most productive. Immigrants should go on in
the fall Or winter, so as 10 DC ready to put III an
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
| Wisconsin and northern parts cf illino and In
| diana, should go through Missouri or Arkansas
to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson, Goffee's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
i'll the direction OF the forks ofthe Triaity. Those
going from other sections of the Union, soutl,
should go TO Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn. or Natchez, Miss. land thence across
by land or to New Orleans al d thence by Ste am
Boat up Red River TO Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place agent will be stationed, wno will
give enigrants directions as to their route by land
to Dallas ami Stewartsyille, distance Of som
300 miles .- ...,. 49,. F.. .
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indus
t:ious, Intelligent and moral people and mus
soon become the most populOus part of Texas
The Government has recently formed the counties
of Grayson, Dallas, Denton, Collin and part
of Robertson and Navarro within tine Grant. Ii
is decidedly the most healthy part of the state, the
lands having having gentle undulating surface
} there are no ponds, swamps or marines, and nc
{ local cause Tor disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months oil
summer there is a constant breeze playing over
the pgaires, and the nights are invariably cool
the Thermometer never rises above So to 80, and
i'll the winter never falls below 80 degrees Fab
renhet. it aboGnds in springs, aud at the depth
of fifteen twenty feet, in the midst of the prai
RE, tina best water can be had; all tie small
streams are peculiarly clear and crystal like =
{ Colonel William Myers who removed from Gar,
Tard county, KY, last fall, says in a letter datcC
9th Nav, iS47-"I will not venture to tell ny
friends it Kentucky that the land here Dettel
} than the best land in Kentucky, because they
would not believe it; but now | assert it, for the
E soil is deeper, being in many places five fee
and the kindest land to work | ever pat a plougt
i'll. verify believe that around the forks of The
Trinity. lies the largest body of trstrate land il
, Ameflca." From the forks Of the Trinity K
Santa Fe, is only GU miles by the old Spansi
trail aud the newspapers in Texas are now advo
eating the up the. Trinily,and from its fork
by land, i'll every resi- preferable to the on
e by independence, Mo. Why should emigrant
p think of going to Oregon or California when the.
can obtain better land for nothing, so much near
Ell home?
2 This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that vii
r ever offer OIL the continent of America OF gettin
lands for the mere cost of surveys and cost G
deeds. Our Colony is emphaticaly the plac
for the poor mans home: .here he does not hav
: 20 feed hi: cattle tor six or seven months in tn
f year; there he will have home market for a.
the surplus he can produce for years TO come,an
with industry and economy, speedily become rick
Let no Enligrant lose sight of the important ia
II that our contracts with the Government of Texa
, expire the LIST day Of July, I843, and that h
), must not only be III the Colony, but that he mus
! have selected his land, built house or cabi
Y thereon, and be residing therein with his famil
:, by that day one day after that date, and tn
r opportunity ofgettng lands for nothing is, pei
> haps, lost for ever. Persons desiring ADDITION;
= information, BY addressing the Undersigned Tru
;, tees or either of them, post paid, shall receiy
q prompt atfentlon. ~ u t.E
JonN j. smlrn, Teas ,Ernigr att
= W. G. PETERS, and Lind CompGn!
; Louisville, Sept. lst 1871
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