Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-05-30
Texas Emigration 8 Land Company.
800 .4enes IF lGnd.fr S9o!-l6O Acre. Of
land for SIJ!

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NHH FExAs EMIGRAr ZION AND LAND CoMPANY
IL having derive theR Grant from the late
Republic oi fexas, BY contra, IS mxts with lFIe
/ PTesdert therGf. under authority Of the special
acts OF Congress, spprived 4ta February, .o4i
and 10Th January, l543, granting lands 10 Erni-
'Ian;S, will continue % give - acres OF and ~
ta'niie !, and i6J acres Of land 90 single men
IVer II 'ears Of aga, until tie lst day Of jelly.
| io43s conditioned, that she family snail pay b.
'n the single man $40. for the surveyn; fees -
| \ family, as defined in contracts, mist con.
| sIst of
~ man an his wife.wiih. or without children -
~ wldawer with two or ihnte children, il
males under II Yeas of age, il females unmaY.
red" ~.
So widow with Two Or more childred; IL males
under IL years of nge, re fem les, unmarriedn
"fwo single men oyet the age of seyeuteen
years. each one being entitled to CD acres.''
Oh his arrival in the COLONY, the E,n,gr,u.
'onIh t'rtiwith apply TO the agent of the Com.
panY, VIZ. Henry y. lledgcoxs, siding al Stew
sF'sVilie IN Denton county, who will at all times
ne ready to assist min in the selection of his land
'nd enter the sumo on books KEEP, for that pir.
'o1e, anI give him cesl}lica c therefor; which
certificate will De eyiisnce OF his having Settled
IA tne COLONY las due time
ChIr Grant lies im the North-Ea stern mart of
Tea s, ',ct~een Ins 39hd And 9th degrees OF
I.aSi'nds North, and ID and ;! dagrees Of Lon
5Ituae w 9si, from Washington; beginning on the
south side ~ Red River. at point miles ca 81
OF tre False Oua;ntth, running thence due
'"ilh Lou miles. thence East / 81 miles, thence
Worth IU3 miles, then"o West l6l milej 10 IN
lrsIhning having front on the meanderings of
tad River of nearly 30 miles: aud includes
Within iis limits aha upper and lower Gross Tim.
neTs, AMI tIs lead waters Of the Brasas and Erin.
'ty divers, the Trinity being naiglole for Steam
q L.
Gloomy Io ihe Gulf of TeXico into which il emp |
lies, some - miles from Galveston ana Red Riy. |
'r,to the Mississippi, 4ffordng outlet for the
eFplus productions of the country. This portion |
" Texas is peculiarly adapted TO the growth of |
"ha1t, experience within tina ,st Two wears hav-
ing lesIed the faci, that will produce ~ bushels
% the acre, weighing is 10 ~ pounds on the |
'ushe'. lnfiAn corr, rye, barley, oats, sweet
mi Irish potatoes, peas, ans. IN lions garden !
vegetable OF all kinds, cotton, hemp md tobacco,
tnh ehe celebrated Inrskeet grass which covers
me p'aIrles and upm which cattle subsisI, and
keep fat during the Winter, and re tur- only IL
b OCCASIONALLY 'alre 4 and kept together, to rea,
them In great numbers.
lii: plahtin. season commences in Eebruary
md CONSUMES until Julv bat the early crops are
The most pro Lc'ige. Erhiyrants should go on In
The fall or winter, so IN De ready to put in an
aariy crop. Those gIng from Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin, anl northern parts IF llino and In
LANA, snnud 6" through Missouri or Arkansas
10 Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort rowspn, ,ffae,s
static or Pine Bluff, thence into tie sertlem, nj,
in the direction Of the forks Oitho trinity rhcs
going from other sections of The Union, sout
snuL go to Helena or Columbia, Ark Mem.
UhIs, Team, or Natchez, Miss AN theme. acros,
ny land; or to New Orleans nj d thence by Steam
Boat up Red River II Shreveport, Louisiana, al
which place an agent will be stationed, wn,, will
give emIgranis directions as 90 their route by and
to Dallas AMI Stewartsville, a distance OF som
30 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indu-
tslous, Intelligent and moral people and mu>
snon bacnme the mOSt pDpuloIs part Of raxas.
The Toverrneut has Recently for,ne the c0untie
Vt Grsysrn, Dallas, Denton, Calm and a parl
nt Robertson aud y tvarrO within the Grant Ii
IS decidedly the most healthy of the statethp
anis having having gentle Iniulating surface;
there are no ponis, swamps nr mar hes, and 40
local cause ior disease. fine atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the wdrmest months of
summer there ia a cOhstpnt breeze playing over
the pTaiEIes, aud the nights invariably cool;
the The Tnnn"lIr never rises above IS to 80, and
III the winter never falls below 81 degrees Fan
fehheIt It ahnrnds IN springs, aud al The depth
OF h!teel oP twenty feet, in tile mi Isl nf the pra
RE, TIE best water eau be had; I'll tie small
streams are peculiarly clear aud crystal like -
Coloual William MYERS who removed from Gar
Nth Nav, '5l7-"I will not venture TO tell my
frien Is in Kentucky shat the Iaid here was better
than the best land in Kentucky, hecause they
wound not believe il; but now | assert il, for the
|oll is deeper, being in many places five feet
an the kindest land 10 work | ever put plough
~. verify believe that around the lorks of the
trinity. lies the aIges IIody OF iTst-rate land in
AmafIca." From tile forks OF the Trinity 10
'anla Re, Is only ID miles by the old Spanish
trail and the newspapers IN Texas are nov advo-
eating the route up the Friniy,and rom its forks
By land, as III every rosr ect preferable to the one
ny Independence. No. Why should emigran,s
'hink DIGGING % Oreg"n or ;ali fprnia when they
can obtain better land fornothing, SO much near
ar nome!
This is, perhaps. the last opportunity that will
ever oH4r Oh the continent OF America OF getting
'I"d '"rt mere cost of surveys and cost OF
Iced Our colony is einphatically the place
Ior>m po'rm ms nome: there he does not have
:" iee. hls cattle for six or seveh mon.hs in the
wear; there he will have home market for all
the surplus he Can produce for years 10 come, land
with III iustrV and economy, spaeiily become rich
Let no migrant lose sight ofthe important ia Z
that our Cot acts with the Government Of Texas
expire on ih- st day of July, 1913, and that he
must not o. 7 be Iii the Colony, but that he mus,
nave selected his land, built house or cabin
thereon, aud be reading therein with his family
ny that day;-onn day after that date, and the
opportunity Of getting lands for nothing is, per
ups, lost for ever. Persons de -irins additional
'''rmatIon. by addressing the undersigned Trus
90 u either ofthem, post paid, shall receive
0D'pL attention.
WILLIS STE"ART,I Trustees ofhe
J1HN SMITH, Teas Emigration
Z. PETERs. J and Land Company
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