Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-04-25
Texas Emigration s Land Company.
800 Heres IF lGndJ6r S9O!-l6O .aeresYe Of
land for SO! TH E

s
| "a NiEE TgxAs EMiGRAtIoN AND LAND CoMP4EF
| having derived 4leir Gfant from the late
| Republic f,l Hexass bY.cqnlrasts made with tne
Psesi6er etheEbI. under aBthoTity1of the spsciai
acIs of nngEess, sppr,ved Ala February .o9i
snrl 18th January, iSs3sg1autiag lands9t g Emit
nTan,s, will continue Iogive ~ acres OF 'and 90
Mmilie I, andJ6 lacres off land 10 single men
over II geaTs Of aga, until the 90 dayo1 'Uiys
1913, conditioned, that the h'nily snaif pay D<"'
1an.I die sngtszmap 8lbs fog Ehssnrveyin4 ices -
A family, as defined in our contracts, m1SE con-
stst' =. ~ fl{liI ssif1 Z ~ s,ss''tG 80
3. paD anil his ,rilh, WI shout children I"
CA widower Win Iwo or more Children, II
males under III yea:s of asesif. females pnmaEi
gIed - -fs8 t,,,EI
"A widow with two or move chiIdred az males
under - years of"gs,' if felnslesa unmarried y
"Fwo single men o"ef she age of Seventeen
years, eoch one being entitled 10 I60sactes. -
+ On his arrival in tne "a Colony, tho Emigr7ni
3 1ouli forthwith apply 90 sthesAgenI Of she Com
pany, Mr. Henry @. iledgcoxe, residing at Stew
asisVille in OsntIncounIy, who will al all times
be seaiy 10 assist him 10 ,hpsssleciien OF hisi
and enter ihe same on boaks kept Tor that pur'
hose, and give him cealitica o therefor: which
certificate viii beevidsnce OF hts having settled
ia TIE Colony la due time.
Our Giant lies in Gho NORTHEASTERN part Of
Peg ,s. 1eiHesn she Sind and 34th degrees Of
Lnttnda Moth, and ~ aud gAdsgfoes Of ton
gitude Wssi, from WashilgtoAi beaianing on the
south side Of Red RlYert at a point miles east
of the False Qua tniIt8, running thence due
South 100 miles. Ihence East i6l miles, thsnce
North 100 miles, ihen"o West I64 milsi 10 tbs
bSainiing, having front on the nleandGrngs,of
Hsd HIver of Deadly 800 rInlles;y aud incl uhes
wlthia iIs Limits ths upper and lower Cross Fim.
beEs, aad ltAa lead waters Of the BrRsas;and Erin
lty Rivers, the Trinity heiaG navIgaole for S:eam
isonts of light dTAugh:, from the .nIerIor OF she
Colony 10 the Gulf of Mexico into whieh,ii emp
ties, some a5 miles from Galveston, ann Red Rly-
err, to the Mississippi, s6nrding an outlet for the
-urpus PRODUCTIONS Of the county. This portion
| of fexOs is peculiarly adapted 90 the gfowth OF
whsnaU experience within Ine Ist two SessshAv-
ing lesIe,i Ille fact, hat will produces 40 bushels
| 10 the acre, Weighing $3.50 10 pounds on the
bushe'. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, swear
and Irish potatoes, peas, beans, IN al0ns garden
vegetable OF all kinks, cotton, hemp md Ioba ccO,
md the celebrated inTsNePSI grass WhcI covers
Ihe praisles and upon which cattle slibsisi,, and
keep fat dufng the winter, and re Iur, only 81
b.. ccaaionallY salIed and kept together, TO real
them In great numbers. ~ @iEy z - 2 asa oA'
Fhs planting SEASON e0inmeaoes in February
and centlndes'unIH July, but tho early crops are
the most pro lLoII$e. EIhigranis should 20 on Ir
the TALL OF SlnteR, SO as 90 be- ready to pot in al
early crop. Those going from Missouri, love
Wisconsin, and noEiheTn parts IF llino and In
liam. sanud go thTough Missouri or Arkansas
TO Won Buren,, Fou Smith, Fort Eowson,, Iffee',
SIarioi or Pine Bluff, thence inIo the settlement
in lhe direction Of the forks oftho Priaity. These
going from other sections ofthe Union, sout'
shuLd 80 10 Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn. or Natehez, Mrs ,nnH thence acros
by land ; or to New Orleans Al thence by Ste an
boat up Red River 10 Shreveport, Lnuisiana, a
which place agent viii be stationed, wn" viii
give elnigTAnts directions as 90 their route by Ian
10 Dallas 0n1 StewaUsVile, a distance OF som
30 Mills : s ttA ESQ
I Our colony is rapidly 6lling up with an indu'
lTious, intelligent and moral people and mIs
soon beeoinot tne most pOpulo1s part Of Texas
The government has recnnilY forme the counsIe
; If Grsys'n, Dallas, Deaton, Collin and pal
! of Robertson aud Navarro within the Gram 4
is deGhe lily the most healthy uar of the state IN
, ants having havng gentle unlulating surface
Ihefe are no ponds, swamps or mar hes, and II
lncal cause Tor disease. The atmosphere is puE
d and pleasant During the warmest months {
a summer there is0 cOnsIInf breeze playing ovt
;he pIaiRies. and Ihe nights are invariably cool
the Ihs7mom.IIr never rises above 55 10 80, an
Q III the wintsr never fallsbelow 30 degrees Far
renheit. it aboGnhs in springs, aud mt the dept
of fifteen or twenty feet, in HE miisi Of the pra
RE, tls bsHI water can be had; Ill ne smR
streams are peculiarly clear and crystal like =
COLONEL William Myers who removed from Gu
T.rd county, Ky, last fall, says i~ letter date
7 9Th Nav, tS47-"I will not venture TO tell ~
friends Ia Kentucky Ihav the land here was oetts
i thaM the best land in Kentu"ky, because ihe
would not believe il but now I assert il, for II
soil is deeper, being in many places fee fet
AMI Ghe kiodest ianh 10 work ever put ploug
III. verify believe that around the forks Of IE
Trinity. lice she Largest body OF fssi-r0te land
Il Amsnca.n From the forks Of the -'F1inity
h Santa Fe, is only go miles by the old SPANS
nail aud the newspapers in Texas are nO1 adv1
eating shs route up the TSnity, and from It's forl
By land, as Ia every rosr preferable 10 the
: by Independence. 40. Why should amgran
a Ihink OF going 10 Oregon or California when the
can obtain better land for nothing, go much nea
er home? p - = + as-AA.sa r.
a Fhisis, perhaps, the last opportunity that wi
ever offer OH the continent OF America of geuir
!. IHnd for Ihe mere cost of surveys and cost
deed. Our oInny is ernphatically the plac
J tor tn pour IN ms home: there he does not ha
g to fee Ils catlls for SIX or seven months in Oh
d wear; there he will hive II home market for a
= the surplus he can produce for years 10 come, IAN
with industry and economy, speedily become ricI
Letno Emigrnntlose sight ofthe important IA
o that our cGbf-acIs with '1e Government of Texi
n expireop TIL st day of July, 1913, and that 4
O nut not or be tn the Colony, but that he mu
: have selected his land, built a house or cab
:. thereon, and be Eesdmg therein with his FAM
@ By that oay;-one day after that date, and ii
a opportunity Of getting lands for nothing is, ne
II APPS, lost for ever. Persons de .rin4 adnition
'H'tmatlon. by addressing the undersigned Tru
&c either Of them, post paid, shall rscei,
i oD'DIatfention. - es8@# &kssES
e Ia WILLIS SEEwART,I Tfustees ofMe
"a JIHN j. SMITH, Tsras EDigratio,
&C. PETEas. aud Lgnd Conlpon
T. 'sVille. Sept lat le47
!" Sr. u ( and Me-; Rum, Holland Gin. a.
le ~ agaa Nine aud aslittla of GAnrga,s Rest. a,