Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-02-01
Texas Emigration & Land Company.
$40 .aeres Of land for S2O!-l6O Acres Of
land for $40!

"s'so JOt paw
n NHE Texas EmGRATIoN AND LAND COMPANY
having derived their Grant from the late
Republic OF Texas, by contracts made with tne
Presiderl therof. under authority of the special
acts Of Congress-, approved Alta Feeruarys Ioai
and 10th January, l543, granting lands 10 Emil
nranss will continue 90 give 800 acres OF land 10
families, and 100 acres Of land to single men
over IL years Of age, until the lst day of July,
l846, conditioned, that the family shall pay $50,
and the single man $40, for the surveying fees
A family, as defined in our contracts, must con-
3ist Of
"a man AMI his wife.wilh, or without children -
ga widower with two or more children, if
males under II years of age, if females unmar-
ried."
ga widow with TWO or more childred if males
under II years Of oge, il females, unmarried"
"Two single men over the age of seventeen
years, each one being entitled TO go acres"
On his arrival in the Colony, the Emigrant
should forthwith apply to the agent of the Com
pany, Mr. Henry o. Hedgcoxe, residing al Stew
arisvIlle in Denton county, who will at all times
be ready to assist him in the selection of his land
and enter the same on books kept for that pur.
pose. and give him certificate therefor; which
| certificate will be evidence Of his having settled
ia the Colony in due time.
Our Grant lies in the NORTHEASTERN part o.
Latitude North, and ~ and % degrees of Lon
gitude West, from Washington; beginning on the
south side of Red River. at point II miles east
of the False Ouaohitta, running thence due
South 100 miles. thence East 81 miles, thence
North ito miles. thence West l64 miles to the
| beginning, having front Gil the meanderings of
Red River of nearly 300 miles; and includes
within its limits the upper and lower Gross Tim
bers, and the head waters of the Brasasi and Trim
! Il.
Boats of light dTaugh:, from the interior of the
! Colony TO the Gulf of Mexico into which it emp
ties, some IS miles from Galveston, and Red RiV-
er, to the Mississippi, affording all outlet for the
surplus productions of the country. This portion
OF Texas is peculiarly adapted to the growth of
wheat, experience within the las: TWO years hav-
ing tested tie fact that il will produce 40 bushels
to the acre, weighing 65 to ~ pounds OH the
bushe!. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and Irish potatoes, peas, beans, melons garden
vegetable of all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated muskeet grass which covers
the prairies and upon which cattle subsist, and
keep fat during the winter, and re. Iuire only TO
be Gee asOnally sailed and kept together, to rear
them in great numbers.
| Tbs planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
the most productive. Emigrants should go in
the fall OF winter, so as 10 be ready to put i'll an
early crop. Those going ON Missouri, Iowa,
| Wisconsin and noTtheTn parts of lllino and In
diana, should go through Missouri or Arkansas
TO Van Buren, Fort Smith, Fort Towson. Coffee's
Station Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
i'll the direction of the forks ofthe Trinity. Those
going from other sections of the Union, south,
should go 60 Helena OR Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn. or Natchez, Miss. land thence across
| by land or to New Orleans ar d thence By Ste am
Boat up Red River TO Shreveport, Louisiana, at
| III, -
give enigrants directions to their route by land
to Dallas AMI Stewartsville, distance Of som
900 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indus
tgious, Intelligent and moral people and
soon become the most populous part of Texas
| The Government has recently forme1 the counties
of Groyson, Dallas, Denton, Collin and a part
of Robertson and Navarro within the Grant. 1t
is decidedly the most healthy part Of the state,the
lands having having gentle undulating surface;
there are no ponds, swamps or marines, and no
local cause Cor disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months of
summer there is constant breeze playing over
the pYaiTies, and the nights invariably cool !;
the thermometer never rises above S5 to 80, and
i'll the winter never falls below 80 degrees Fab
renheit. IL abounds in springs, aud at the depth
of fifteen or twenty feet, in the midst of the prai
RE, the best water can be had; all tie small
streams are peculiarly clear and crystal like -
| Colonel William Myers who removed from Gar
Tard county, Ky. last fall, says in letter dated
Sth Nav, lS47-"I will not venture to tell my
friends i'll Kentucky that the land here was better
than the best land in Kentucky, because they
would not believe il but now | assert it, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places five feet
and the kindest land to work l ever put plough
i'll. verify believe that around the forks of The
Trinity. lies the largest body of irst-rate land in
| Amenca." From the forks of the Trinity to
Santa Fe, is only 600 miles by the old Spanish
trail and the newspapers in Texas are now advo-
eating the up the Trinity, land from its forks
by land, as in every rosrect preferable to the one
by Independence, Mo. Why should emgrants
think of going to Oregon or California when they
can obtain better land for nothing, so much near
er home?
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever offer OH the continent of America Of getting
lunds for the mere cost of surveys and. cost oil
deeds. Our Colony is emphatically the place
for the poor mans home there he does not have
20 feed his cattle TOR six or seven months in the
year; tlsre he will have home market for all
the surplus he can produce for years TO come,and
with industry and economy, speedily become rich
Let no Emigrant lose sight of the important ia :;
that our contracts with the Government of Texa:
expire on the lst day of July, l843, and that he
must not only be III the Colony, but that he mus
have selected his land, built house or cabir
thereon, and be residing therein with his family
; by that day;-onr day after that date, and thu
opportunity of getting lands for nothing is, per
haps, lost for ever. Persons desiring adcitiona
information, by addressing the undersigned Trus
tees or either of them, post paid, shall receiv
prompt attention.
JOHN J. SMITH, Teas Emigration
w. c. PETERS. and Lind Company
] Louisville, Sept. lst lS47.
EMPORIUM OF FASHION!
!. II NHE UNDERSIGNED begs leave to inform tn