Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-04-04
Texas Emigration & Land Company.

800 Heres Of land for S2O!-I6O Acre. 0
i land for $40! n m
il ME FE4As EMIGRATIoN ANDsLAND CoMY4Ni
4 IL having deElYed .hef Gram f1om the Iat.
Rspuoiie OF Texas. by contracts made With Oh
fFes'dert Thereof. under authority of the specia
acts Of congress, approved 4te Februasy, toal
and 10th January, I345, granting lands to Emf
nIanss. will continue Iogiye 32p acres ofj andgIC
families, and leo aeresof land to single nfer
over 7'yeRrs of age, until sle lst day Of July
l648, conditioned, that the fnmily shall pay $2O
anil the single man St0 for the surveying fees. y
Atap.iy' as defined IN oaE CONTRACTS must con-
D''A man ami hiswife. with .or without children'
i "a wldower with two or more cbildren,A il
males under II years of age, il females unnar-
lsried.i "a e.g . t3cSs2afajr4c at..sse a
"a widow with two OF, more chiidred if males
under'l7 years of age, ififeHnsies, unmarried"
1.-Two single men oyeE the age of seyenteeu
years, each one being entitled TO l60 acres"
Z On his arrival in the Colony. the EmIgranI
should forthwith apply &c. the agent Of the Com
pany, Mr. Henry .. Hedgcoxe, residing at Stew
artsVils in Deuton county, who will AT all times
be ready to ASSIST HMM the selection of his land
ana enter the same on books kept forlthat pur.
pose, and give him a certificate therefor; which
ceftHcate will be evidence OF his having settled
nt3e Colony Ia due time.
Our Grant lies in the North Eastern part of
I teE4s.3 Detveens the 32nd and Gath degrees OF
Latitude North, and - and p degrees of Lon
gitude West. from Washington; bsgifhiing onthe
south side Of Red River. as point IL miles east
sof the False Ouaehitta, running Ihence due
South 100 miles. thence Eas, I'D miles, thence
Norsh loo miles. thence West l64 miles to the
beginning, having front on the nIeanderings of
Red River Of-nesTly 800 miles; and includes
within lts limlIsdhe upper and lower Cross Tim
beFs, and tins 1ead waters of the Brasassand Trim
lty Rivers, the Trinity being naviga0le for Steam
Boats of light dTaugh;, from the interior of the
Colony 90 the Gulf of Mexico into which it emp
ues, some IS miles from Galveston, and Red Riv-
er, to the Mississippi, atfording an outlet fer the
surplus productions of the country. This portion
OF Texas is peculiarly adapted 4tothe growth Of
wheat, experience within the last Two years hay
ing tested the fact, That will produce 40 bushels
20 the acre, weighing 65 to 10 pounds ION the
Oushe'. Indian coru, rye, barley, oats, sweet
ana irish potatoes, peas, bsans,r melons garden
vegetable OF all kinds, cOttons hemp and tobacco.
and the celebrated musheet grass which covers
The prHiGles AND upon which cattle 5sabsist and
keep fai during the winter, and re luirs. only TO
Be OCCASIONALLY salted and kept together, to real
them in great numbers.
ms planting Season commences in February
and continues untilAJuly; but the early crops are
the mostproddoflYe Emigrants should go on in
the toll or winter, so as TO DC ready to put i'll al
early crop Those going from Missouri. Iowa,
Wisconsin, and northern parts eff llino and In
diana, should go through Missouri OF Arkansas
10 Van Buren,, Fort Smit.i, Fort Towson, Gofees
station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
III The direction ofthe forks ofthO Trinity. These
going from other sections of The Union, souta,
should go to Helena OR Columbia,s Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn, or Nalchez, Miss. and thence across
by land or to New Orleans ard thence by Ste am
Boat up Red River TO Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place an agent will be stationed, wnc will
give eInIgFants directions their route by land
to Dallas AMI Stewarssvil!e, distance of som
200 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with a indus
tSious, Intelligent and moral people and mus
soon oecoIne the most popuiOus part of Texas
The Government has recently formed the counties
Of Greyspp, Dallas, Denton, Collin and n part
OF Robertson aud Navarro within the Grant. II
Is decidedly the most healthy of the sate,t the
lands having having gentle unduiatng surface
there are no ponds, swamps or marches, and no
local cause Tor disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the wermest months of
summer there is a constant breeze playing over
ihe pRairIes, and the nights invariably cool
the thermometer never rises above 81 to 80, { I'D
III te winter never falls below 80 degrees Fab
renhes. lit aboInds in springs, aud at the depth
Q, htiee3 or twenty feet, III the midst of the pra-
rles the best water can be had; all tie small
streams are peculiarly clear and crystal like -
Colonel William Myers who removed from Gar
FARO county, ny, last fall, says in letter dated
oth Nav, t647-"I will not venture to tell 10y
friends III Kentucky that the land here was better
than the best land in kenturky, because they
would not believe ii; but now assert it, for the
rs 0eeOeF. IN ~
AMI the sindest land 10 work ever put plough
III. IverI!y believe that around the forks of the
rInity. lies ihe largest body Of Gst-rate land i'm
America" From the forks of the Trinity 10
Santa Re, Is only 600 miles by the old Spanish
trail and the newspapers in Texa are no " advo-
eating the route up the Tsiniiy,and rom its forks
oy land, as i'll every rosr preferable to the one
by Independence, Mo- Why should emigrants
mink otgong to Oregon or California when they
can obtain better land for nothing, so much near
ef home? " - IL =
This is, perhaps, the last opportunty that will
ever offer oh the continent OF America of getting
Anu Tor the mere cost of surveys and cost OF
1eea' Our oiony is emphaticaly the place
Iof tn poor mans homes !here he does not ha We
20 ieen as cattle Tor SIX or seven months in the
year; there he will have n home market for sal
he surplus he can produce for years TO come. land
Win industry and economy, speedily become rich
het no EIhigrant lose sight of the important ia =
nat our Contracts with the Governments of Texas
expire on tn st day of July, 1913, and that he
nusf notot be IN the Colony, but that he must
rave selected,his land, built house or cabin
hereons and be residing therein with his family
oy That day One day after that date, and the |
opportunity ofgetting lands for nothing is. per.
APPS, lost for ever. Persons desiring additiona i
l"'matlon' by addressing the undersigned Trus-
eSs2f either ofthem, post paid, shall receive
omDt attention,
WftLls STEWART Trustees ofhte
J1nN ]. SMrru, 7eras Emigration
v. Z: PETERs, and Lqnd Cona0anv.
L ;sville. Sept .ttstEls47 s.lPsGs' 'f''''''
81 g., aud N. Z, Rum, Holland Gin, NAL