Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-04-11
Texas Emigration 8 Land Company.
$40 .acres Of land for SaO!-l6O Acres d
land for $40!

500 .aeres Of EGndJor SaO!-l6O Acres Of
!. land for SO! -
a NHE Texas EMIaRArIoN AND LAND CoMVAHT
II having derived their Grant from the late
Republic OF Fexas, BY contracts nude with ine
PFesideel thefoi. under authority OF The spSelai
acas Of c ohgsess approved 4tA EebruaSys IoAs
enti sI6Ih January, t543, granting iaudS 70 Emf
nIan,s. will continue 90 give $40 acres Of ,aad "
a tamiIiea. and $50 acres or Iandsto single men
over IL reaIs Of age, until the LIST day OF july
4 i6d5, conditioned, that The fHmily shall pay $2O,
anil the single man $40, for the suryeyin4 fees
family, as defined in our contracts, must con-
slst Of - 81 g - e - --s~
81 man an his wife win. or without children !"
i ga wIdower with two or more children, If
males under E7yeass Of age, II females unnhas-
4 Tled.n ,. i.,t,-s ia ,
/ 'EA wila~ with Iwo or more childfed: il males
under II years Of pge. il females. unmarried -
/, "Two single men over che age of seventeen
| years, each ole being entitled so 60 acres''
On his arrival in ihe CoIohy, the .JEmigran,
should forthwith apply TO me agent ofGhe Com
pany, Mr.. Henry q. Hedgccxe, residing at Stew
| aEisVille 10 Denton county, who will at all times
De ready to assist hin in tho selection Of his land
md enter the same on bouks kept for that pur.
nose, and give him ceStihca'o therefor; which
certificate will beevidence OF his having settled
| 10 tie Colony in due fine.
|
] FeRps. uetResp the 33nd and Gath degrees Of
Latitude Norih, and ~ and - degrees of Lon
| gitude West, from Washington: besinning oathe
south side OF Red River, at point II miles east
of the False Quo shiIta, running thence due
South IU0 miles. thence East l64 miles, thence
North 100 miles, thence West l64 miles 10 ihs
beginning, having front oil the nleanderings of
Red River of nearly 800 miles; and includes
within lie Limits the upper and lower Gross Tim
fitoh oo ofs F,A
itT Rivers, the Trinity being navigable for Steam
Boots OF light dRaugh:, from the Interior of the
Colony 60 the Gulf OF Mexico into which il emp
ties, some % miles from Galveston, and Red Riv-
or, to ths Mississippi, affording an outlet for the
surplus productions Of the country. This portion
OF Texas is peculiarly RdapseG so she growth of
whsHtS experience within the last two years hav-,
ing tested ie faes, that i. will produce 40 bushels
20 the acre, weighing 65 20 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 Inuskeet grass which covers
lhe pTaifles and upon which. cattle subsisi, and
keep iaI during the winter, and re luire only TO
be tccaaiOnally sailed and kept to- ether to real
them In great numbers.
| ssIhs planting Season cnlnune8cesains Eebruary
and continues until Juiy; but the early crops are
| the most productive. EmigranIs should 90 on in
the fall Or winter, to be ready to put IN All
early crop. Those going from Missouri,. Iowa,
Wisconsin, and northern parts IF Illino and In.
diana, should GO through Missouri or Arkansas
to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Fowson, Coffee's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
in che direction of che forks ofiho Trinity. Those
Agoing from other sections Of the Onion, soui,,
should go 20 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 an agent will be stationed, wno will
give enlgVnnts directions 10 their route By land
to Dallas AMI SiewarssviIle, a distance of som
900 milss
Our colony is rOpidly filling up with an indus
tsious, Intelligent and moral people and mus
snon becone the most populous part of Texas.
| The government has recently foTme1 the counier
nf GreYsoD, Dallas, Denton, Collin and a part
of Robertson and Navarro within the Grant Il
isdeGidedly the most healthy of the state,ihe
| lands having having gentle undulating surface
there are no ponds. swamps or marines, and no
local cause Tor disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months of
summer there is a coilstnnt breeze playing over
the pIsiTies, and che nights are invariably cool
the Thermometer never rises above IS to 80, aud
| IN tile winter never falls below 80 degrees Fab
renheia. it abounds in springs, aud at the depth
oil fifteen or twenty feet, in the midst Of the pra-
! RE, ths best water can be had; al q small
streams aie' peculiarly clear aud crystal like =
Colonel William Myers who removed from Gao
saEd county, Ky, last fall, says r letter dated
9th Nav, t641-"I will not venture 20 tell 10y
friends In Kentucky that the land here WAS Deter
than Ihe best land i'll Kentucky, because they
would not believe il; but now assert it, for the
soil is deeper, being ia many places five feet
and the kiHdess land To work ever put a plough
III. verify believe that around the forks of the
trinity lies ihe largest body OF tiTst-rate land in
! AmeGIca." From the FORKS of the Trinity TO
SOnaa Fe, is only 80J miles by the old Spanish
trail and the newspapers in Texas are nov advo-
coiing the route up the FSiniy, and from It's forks
by lands as In every rosI ect preferable 10 the one
by Independence, No. Why should emigrauts
| think of going TO Oregon or California when they
can obtain better land for nothing, so much near
er home? So FNF-ef e-.-s.
lhisis, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever offer OH the continent OF America of getting
lund for the mere cost of surveys and cost OF
deed OurG colony is emphatically the place
for Sn POOR mans home: .here he does noti,ave
40 teeG hIs cattle for six or seven months in the
year; tleRe ne will have Il home market for all
the surplus he can produce for years 10 come, and
with industry and economy, speedily becomerch
Let no Emigrant lose sight Of the important "a a
that our cOnf~4cts with Ine Government of Texas
expire OH tn st day of July, lS4S, and that he
must not OF be In the Colony, but that he mus,
have selected his land, built a house or cabin
iheIeons and be residing therein with his family
oy that tisy;-ona day after that date, and the
opportunity ofgetting lands for nothing is. per.
'ps, lost for ever. Persons desiring additional
I"'smation, by addressing the undersigned Trus
Cd u either of them, post paid, shall receive
a0DADI attention. @sa ~ fss-S. Sga.a X
WLhls STswART,l 81 Trustees ofHe
y1HN J. SMITH, TEXAS Emigration
e. PErERs. and Land Company
L :sviile, Sept LIST ISA7 3Fs