Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-05-16
Texas IMMIGRATION 8 Land Company.
gao .aeres ef land for S1O!-i6O .aerss n
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land for $50!
NHE PRxAs EMIGAA ZION AND LAND CoAPABv
| III naVina derived thsls Giant from she isss
Republic OF CexaS, BY contrasts made with lne
Psssiders theTol. undss authority Of the spsciai
acts Of Congress, approved AtA EeDruaf1s .o.'
| and 18th January, l543, gaantiOg lands " Emi-
nIanis. will eontlnus togiye 329 acres Of 'and N
| families, and I6d acres Of land 10 sngie n,eo
Lover II Years of age, until the ist day OF july
1913, conditioned, that the family snal! pay S"U'
snd Ghs single man $40. for che surveying Ices
| \ family, as defined In our Contracts mast eon-
| sist Of
s.I man an hisviSs, or without en- lldTsn -
"a wldowsr With two or more children, il
| males under Il geaTs Of sgs. II females unmaT.
sled."
WA widow With swo or more chiidTed: II males
,Ioder IL years Of age, IL fem4 ies. unmarried"
"Pwo single men over che age If seventeen
yssrs, each ono being snIIlsd TO I6O scres."
On his arrival in she COLONY. Ghs Ern,gr4ns
spould forthwith apply 20 the agent ofthe Conn
pA0y, VIZ. Henry .. Hedgcoxs, residing 81 Stew
aSisVille In Denton couniy, who will az all times
Ne ready TO assist him ia the eesction Of hu land
md enter ths same on bo"ks kept for that pur.
iose, and give him q certificate therefor; which
certificate will De evidence Of hts having settled
"a Tne Colony les due time.
Oar Grant lies in che, Norah-Eastern part OF
FeR .. between Ghs 32nd and 3ith degrees OF
Latitude North, and ~ and ;! degrees Of Ion.
gituds West, from Washington: beginning on the
'outh aide Of Red River. at point miles east
IT Ols False Dun :hitt4, running thence due
South loo miles. thence East 64 miles, thence
NoSih iUO miles. then"c West 1854 miles 20 IN
beginning having front OH the meanderings OF
Red River Of nearly 80 miles: and includes
within ls limits ihs upper and lower Cross rim
heSs, and tas lead waters Of she Brasas and Erin
tT Rivers, the Trinity being navIgaoIe for SIean,
iboais Of light draugh:, from the Inferior of the
Colony 10 ihe Gulf of dexico into which il emp.
uos. soma - miles from Galveston, ana Red Riv.
or. TO 'hs Mississippi, sROrding an outlet tGr the
urpius pynducIinns of the country. This portion
II Texas 10 peculiarly. adapted 20 she growth OF
wheat, experience within tneI Ist two wears hav-
ing 'esIsi Iis fscI, hiatt will produces ID hu shells
10 she acre, weighing 65 TO 10 pounds on the
oushe'. Indian corr, rye, barley, oats, sWea,
ana Irish potatoes, peas. baans, m4ons garden
vegetable OF all kinds, cotton, hemp and TOD accn
Ind the celebrated InIsReet grass which covers
The praTles and upon which cattle subssI, and
keep TAT during the winter, and re luira only O.
b cAaionalY sslted and kept together, to rea.
them In great numbers.
Fhs planting season commences in February
and continues until July; buI the early crops are
the mos; productive. tmigranss should 60 on In
the FsI VI winter, so as IN be HeadY TO gut III al
saGy crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa.
Wisconsin, ami northern parts cf Ellino 8 and In
Llama. should 60 through Missouri or Arkansas
20 Van BuTen, Fort Smith. Fort Fowson, t;affee's
static or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlement
in che direction ofihe forks oG.ho Eraity. Thnsf
going from other SECTIONS ofIhe Union, sout'.
5noI d go 10 Helena or Columbia, Arb, Mem
Dhs, Tenn, OF Nalchez, Miss ,ani thence across
ny land or to New Orleans Al d thence By Sic am
Boat up Red River 90 Shreveport, LnuisiAnR, at
which place an agent will be stationed, wn" will
give enigRauls directions ss 90 their route By land
10 Dallas snt SteWaIIsville, a distance OF som
| 40 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indu"
t:ious, Intelligent and moral people and mus
soon bscume tne most populous part of Texas.
| fhe government has recently forne the c0uutie
! # Grsysnn, Dallas, Denton, Collin and a part
nf Robertson aud Navarro within the Grant h
is decidedly the most healthy Uarr Of the the
Rn IL having having gentle IN lulating surface /;
| there are ponds, sWamps nr mar hes, and no
| local cause FOR disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. Du'ing the waTmest months Of
| summer there is a constant breeze playing over
;he pIaiTies, aud Ihe nIgnIs are invariably cool;
'he Ihe7InomaIJr never rises above 90 t1 80, and
| III tIle winter nsvsr falls below 8 degrees Fan
sedheit IL abonhds in springs, aud AT the depth
If fifteen oP twenty feet, in the midst If the pTa
| RE, Gls bsst water can be had; Ill a. small
| strenTs ara peculiarly clear aud crystal like
| Colousl William Myers who removed from Gar
rIrd county, Ky lasI fail, says IL letter dated
| 5th Mar, 'SA7-"I will not venture 60 tell my
isienis IN Kentucky that abe land here was Deter
than the best land III Kentucky, because they
Wound not bsisve il; bot now assert it, for the
soil 10 deeper, being in many places five feet
AMI lhe ki0desl land I'd work ever put a plough
| "A. lveTily oeieve that around che forks Of the
trinity. lies she laSgest body Of rst-Tate land In
| Amsnca.n From 0de FORKS Of the Trinity 10
santa Fe, is only co. miles by Ihs old Spanish
| Trail and the newsp9 peTs IN Texas are nov advo-
eating the route Up the Fsnity, and It's forks
oy land, as Ia every TosI preferable TO the one
oY Independence, No. Why should emigran.s
think Of going 20 Oregon % Galifornn when they
:aA obtain better land for nothing, so much near
| az honB!
| Tnis 10. perhaps. the last opportunity that will
ever Offer Oh the continent OF America of getting
| aud for Ihe mere cost Of surveys and cost Of
| Iced Oar Colony is emphatically the place
/ tor tn poIr IN ms home: :here he does not have
~ tee,. .ia cAItls for six seven mon:ns in the
| wear; these he will nave homo market for all
Ihe surplus he can produce for years TO come, and
With intustfV and economy, spae lilly becomer rich
| Let no grant lose sight ofthe important IL =
| that our Contracts with I1e Government "f Texas
Expire Oh th- st day Of Jolly, 1913. and that he
mast not ~ 7 be tn the Colony, but than be mus,
| laVe selected his land. built a house or cabin
'heTeom, AID be reading therein with his family
~ that day one day after that date, and the
opportunity Of getting lands for nothing is, per
| ups, lost for ever. Persons de sirins additional
donation. by addressing the undersigned Trus
u either ofthem, post paid, shall receive
onpI attention.
Willis 3TEwART,I Trustees ofMe
:. J1HN J. SMITH, Tsz0s Emigration
.. e. Peters. and Land Company
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