Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-03-28
Texas Emigration 8 and Company.

Texas Emigration & and Company
sso .s:re. Of land for saO!-lsa .ae,s' }
land Jor, SO! - -
EN 4,
YNhE TExAs EMienA rroN AND LAND GoHsAa1
Il haVIpg derivecfheIT Giant sIoT the n Ss
Republic D EeKas. " CONTRACTS made with ths
PsesidenI iAerof. under authority Of the special
4 aeIs of &C nsTsss, approved 4is February, Ioai
ssri 10Th . anusTy, 1913, granting lands 20 Emf
nIaais, will continue give 800 acres o. land N
IfsmiIfeA, and t6Dscsss Of Hand Coz eingle men
over IL years of age, until the Les day OF JOY,
If643. condiiEoned, that Ihe fHni7 shall pay S2Ur
and she single man SlOs foe she syFYeylns ices =
| A family, as defined in our contracts, must con-
4 slst or eG 81 * 1sses -tS-sEAs
50 man an his wife with. or without children -
I ia widowef with two- or more children, il
males under EEyea.s Of sgs,Iifi females unmar-
RED" 49,. ,,.,,z -..f..34-c
"a widow wiih two or more chiidfed: il males
undsrl = years ofoges IL fenaiss. unmarried u.
1.-TWO single men oyer che age Of seventeen
yesEs, esch Oiie being entitled 20 100 acres -
h On his arrivsl IN abe Colony, tho Emigran,
should forthwith apply TO 'the agent ofIhe Com
papg, Nj. Henry O. Hedgec4s, residing at Stew
sHsViue IN Denton county, who will al all times
DC Ieady to assat him in the selection of his land
and enter the same on books kept for that pur
nose, and give him ce1tfhcase therefor: which
ceftlhcate will be evidence ofhls having settled
ia t1e Colony ia due time.
Our Grant lies in Ghe North-Easiern part OF
4 TsRgs. between the Sand and 34ih degrees of
Latitude North, and 10 and % degrees OF Lon
gitude West, from Washington; beginning on the
south sids OF Red River, at a point Il miles east
Of the False Oua:hitt0, running thence due
South 100 miles. thence East I64 miles, thence
North 100 miles. thence West I64 miIei TO shs
bRRiNniug. having front on Che meandsrinSs Of
Red River of nseIIy 300 miles; and includes
within ils Limits She uppe. and lower Gross Tim
bsEs, and tiis head waters Of the BfssasIahd Trn-
itT Rivers, the Trinity being navlgabls for Steam
Boots Of light dPaugh:, from the Interior Of the
Colony TO the Gulf Of Mexico inio which il emp
ties, some IS miles from Galveston, and Red Riv-
or. TO the Mississippi, eording an outlet fer the
surplus productions ofthe country. This portion
Of Texas 10 peculiarly adapgec loihe growth Of
whsRt, sxpepisnce within the last two yeats hav-
ing tested Ile fact that i. will produce 40 Is
70 the acre. weighing IS to 70 pounda on the
bushes. Indian coru, rye, barley, oats, SWEEP
and fish potatoes, peas, beans, malons garden
vegetable of all kinds, cotton, hemp md tobacco,
and the celebrated inusAeet grass, which covers
lhe prsisies and upon which cattle subssI, and
keep fAi during the winter, and re Iuirn only TO
be cccselonally sailed and kept together, to rear
Them Ia great numbers
= The planting ason comnasnces in February
aud continues until JuiG; butths early crops are
the moss productive. Immigrants should go on In
che fall OT winter, so TO be ready TO put III all
| early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin, and northern parts IF Illino and In
diana, should go through Missouri or Arkansas
| TO Ven Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson, Coffee IS
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
in she direction ofGhs forks ofthe Tsiaity These
going from other sections of the Union, south,
should go 90 Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
| phis, Tenn or NsicheZ, Miss land thence across
| by land: or TO New Orleans al d thence By Ste am
Boat up Red RiyeI to Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place an agent will be stationed, wir viii
give enSERnts directions IS to their By land
! to Dallas and Stswar:sville, distance OF som
900 milss
| Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indus
tgious, inlslIgsnt and moral people and mus
soon bscume the most populous part of Texas
The G0veTDmeut haarsc0ntly forme1 the countle'
uf GRsysnn, Dallas, Denton, Collin and part
of Robertson aud Navarro within the GrauI. II
is decidedly the most healthy of the state, the
lands having having gentle unduiating surface
| there are no ponds, swamps or ar-hes. and 10
| local cause Tor disease. The atmosphere is pure
| and pleasant. During the warmest months Of
summer there is constant breeze playing over
che pIsiRes, ami the nights are Invariably cool
the Ihe7mometsr never rises above So TO 80, and
in She winter never falls below 80 degrees Fan
Eenheit. IL abounds in springs, aud at the depth
OF fifteen oP twenty feet, in the midst IF the pYa
RE, the osat water can be had; all tle small
streams are peculiarly clear aud crystal like -
Coionsl William Myers who removed from Gar
sard county. Ky, last fall says ir letter dated
| 9Th Nav, tS47-"I will not venture 20 tell my
friends in Kentucky that the land here WAS better
than the best land in Kentucky, because they
would moi believe il; but now l assert it, forthe
| soil daeOAr- hpiND in nfapaa five f.a0
and the kintIest land 10 work Fever put plough
In. verify beliese that around the forks Of she
trinity. lies the largest body Of rst-rate land in
Amenca." From the forks Of the Trinity to
Sonia Fe, is only 600 miles by the old Spanish
trail aud Che newspapers In Texas are nov advo-
cstiug the route up che gTinysand from It's forks
" lands IS in every rosr preferable TO the one
by Independence, Mo. Why should emigrants
/ think OF going TO Oregon os California when they
con obtain better land for nothing, so much near
or home? "a -s III
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever offer Oh The continent OF America of getting
land tor the mare cost of surveys and cost OF
deed Our Colony is emphatically the place
| ioE the poor mans home: there he does not have
TO fec" nis cattle for six or seven months in the
| year; there he will haye home market for all
the surplus heican produce for years TO come, and
! With Industry and economy,speediy become rich
| Let no Emigrantl lose sight of the importantfa
that our contracts with the Government Of Texas
expire on tn st day of July, 1913, and that he
must not OF J be ia the Colony, but that he mus
| have selected his land, built a house or cabin
thereon, and be residing therein with his family
By that day ;-ona day after that date, and the
opportunity ofgetting lands for nothing is, per
lps, lost for ever. Persons desiring additiona
~-I%''mation, by addressing she undersigned Trus
ss u either ofthem, post paid, shall reeeivt
| onpt strention. -.
wilkins SrEwART,l Trustees ofEte
Is JOHN J.. SMITH, IsrSs, "a Emigration
W. G. PEFERs, and Land COMPANY
;syills. Sept. stled7. EaksaE.
! Sr. o. and N. f. Rum, Holland Gin, Nal
~ ogi Xihe, aud a little of Georges Best, at
.saoAa aaWOODRlFF'SsE East Joliet