Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-02-08
Texas Emigration s. Land cOnpang.

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sao. :. .asres IF land for S2o!-l6O Acre, Of
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VIC Texas EansaATIoN AND LAND Cole ANY
Il having derived her Grant from the late
tepdblic OF Fexas, by CONTRA IS made with the
Fresfuept theToi. under authority of vhe special
acts Of c Ongress, tTppraved 4tE February, sSll
and 18th January, l543, grapiing lands, 10 Emil
l'Iansss VIII sondnue 81 give 39p acres o. and N
iamilief, and l60 acres of land 10 single men
aver H'vearssof age, Unit Its. let 1day Of July,
1913; conditioned, that the family shah pay $50,
and the single man SlU, for the surveying fees =
A fanilys as.defnsd in our contracts, mist con-
sist of-.I,..... -, =
'"A man an his Wife. win or without children J,
"a wIcower with two or nnDre, chiltlfeh, If
males under II Yeas of age, il females unmar-
ried. :" % Is 10 %9t7fiF Jl'ttsi~. ftfIl<
"a widow with Two or more childred; il males
under Il years CT nge, if females, unmarried 81
Two single men over! the age.of 81 ve,iteen
years, each ore being eniited,to l60 acres >,
On has arrival in the Colony thsr ErnIgr1nt
should forthwith apply, to the agent of the Com
pany, Mr, Henry .. Hedgcoxe, residing at Stew
|artsVlile IN Denton, county, who will all all times
be ready to assist him in the selection of his land
ahd enter the same on books kept for1that -pur.
nose, and give him a. cef,ifca4e therefor; which
certificate will be evidence of his having settled
10 the Colony in due time.
Our Grant lies i'll the North stern part of
Texas. between the 32nd and 34th degrees OF
Latitude North, .amd - antl, - degrees of Lon
gitude Wess from Washington; beginning on the
south side of Red River. at point IL miles east
of the False Oun :hitta, running thence due
South 100 milessatheace East 81 miles, thence
North ITO miles. ther-o West l64 miles TO the
beginning, having front Oh the meandcrings of
Red River of nearly 800 miles; and includes
within its limits the upper and lower Gross Tim
bers, and the head waters Of the Brasas and Trim
ity Rivers, the Trinity being naviga6e for Steam
Boats of light dYaugh:, from the interior of The
Colony 20 the Gulf OF Mexico into which il emp
ties, some % miles from Galveston, and Red ieiv-
er, 10 the Mississippi, affordng an outlet fer the
surplus productions of the country. This portion
OF Texas is peculiarly adapted TO the growth OF
wheat, experience within the asst two years hav-
ing tested the fact, that will produce 20 bushels
10 the acre, weighing IS TO 10 pounds on the
6ushe'. Indian corr, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and Irish potatoes, peas, bsans, melons garden
vegetable or all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated muskeet grass which covers
the prairles and upon which cattle subsisi, and
keep fat during the winter, and re luire only to
ba occasionally sailed and kept together, to real
them i'll great numbers.
ihs planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
'"S SuOuIu 90 on IN
the fall Or winter. so 10 DE ready to put in an
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin and northern parts IF Illino and In.
diana, snouid go through Missouri or Arkansas
TO Van Buren,, Fort Smita, Fort Fowson, :; Iffne's
Station Pine Bluff, thence into tie settlements
i'll the direction Of the forks oitho Tri,ty. These
going from other sections of The UniOsI, sout {,
should go TO Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn. or Natchez, Miss. ,and 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, wn, will
give eunigranIs directions to their route by land
10 Dallas anf Stewartsvile, a distance OF som
300 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indu-
t:ious, Intelligent and moral people and mus
soon become the most popuioIs part of Texas
The Government has recently fonme the countie
af Grsysnn, Dallas. Denton, Collin and par
of Robertson aud Navarro within the Grant. 1t
is decidedly the most healthy of the the
'ands having having gentle unhulating surface !;
| there are no ponds, swamps hes, and no
local cause ior disease. The atmosphere is pure
| and pleasant. During the warmest months of
summer there is a Constant breeze playing over
the pFaires, and the nights invariably cool !;
the Thermometer never rises above IS to- 80, and
III tlIe winter never falls below 81 degrees Fan
renheit. is abormds in springs, aud at the depth
oil httee1 oP twenty feet, in the midst If the praI
| RE, tle best water can be had; all Il e small
| streams are peculiarly clear aud crystal like -
| Colonel William Myers who removed from Gar
rlrd county, Ky, last fall says ir> letter dated
| 9th Nav, t647-''l will not venture to tell ny
friends iii Kentucky that the land here WAS better
| than the best land III Kentucky, because they
would not believe il; but now assert it, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places five feet
AMI the kindest land ~ work ever put plough
III. IveriIy believe that around the FORKS of The
Trinity. lies the largest body OF firsrate land in
Amenca." From Ine forks of The Trinity to
Santa Fe, is only COL miles by the old Spanish
trail aud the newspapers in Texas are row advo-
eating the route up the Trinily,and from its forks
by land, as in every rosI preferable to the one
by Independence, No. Why should emigranis
think OF going TO Oregon or California when they
can obtain better land for nothing, so much near
er home? E..e-r.-
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever offer on the continent OF America OF getting
hInds for the mere cost of surveys and cost OF
deeds. Our Colony is emphatically the place
for the poor mans home: :here he does not have
20 feed his cattle for six seven months in the
year; there he will have home market for all
tine surplus he can produce for years come, and
with industry and economy, speedily become rich.
Let no Migrant lose sight Of the important ia t
that our contracts with the Government Of Texas
expire on the lst day of July, 1915. and that he
must not only De IN the Colony, but that he must
have selected his land, built house or cabin
thereon, and be resdIng therein with his family
by that day one 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,l . Trustees Of the
JOHN J SMITH, 7eras Emigration
W. &. PETERS. and Land Company.
Louisville, Sept. let ts47 :