Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-05-09
Texas Emigration & Land Company.
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800 .Aeres Of land for SaO!-I6O Acres Of
'and for $40! q IS
II Vac FEzAs EMlaRATIoN AND LAND COMPANY
Il Il ehating derived their Grant from the siate
Republic OF Texas, by contracts made with the
Presidents therOf. under authority Of the special
acts os Congress. approved Ats February. !0li
end 10th January, 1913, granting lands 10 Emil
ntanss, will continue ogiye 32e acresof land IN
families, and 100 acres OF land TO single 4men
over ~ years of age, until the LIST day Of july,
l64S. conditioned, that the fnmly shall pay S2O,
and Che single man $40, fot thesurveyins FEES
A family, as defined in our contracts, must con-
slst Of ~ 81 "A 90 "a -
"A man an his wife with. or without children
| "A wldower with two or more children, If
males under II years of age, II females unnaE-
| ried" -e.e l.-,.r -c,'..fEvs. atrfHeE Er
"a widow with two or more childred: if males
under IL yssss ofoge, IL females, unmarried - 4
| "Two single men owes, the age of seventeen
years, each one being entitled to l60 acres :"
| On his aHTiVaIin the Colony, the Emigran'
should forthwith apply 20 the agent of,he Com
paOY, DIR. Henry o. -Hsdgcoxe, residing at Stew
aTIsville in Denton county, who will at all times
be ready to assist him in the selection of his land
and enter the same on boaks kept for that. pur.
| pose, and give him certificate therefor; which
certihcate will oeevidence Of HE having settled
| 10 the Colony in due time.
Our GRANTEES in tho Northeastern part Of
Texas, besween the S2nd and 34th degrees OF
| Latitude North, and 10 and y degrees of Ton
gituds West, from Washington; beginning Oh the
south side OF Red River, at point IL miles east
1 of Ghe False Qua initta, running thence due
South 100 miles. thence East 81 miles, thence
North 100 miles, thence West l64 mile5 20 the
beginning, having font OH the meanderings OF
| Red River of nsally 300 miles; and includes
within iis limits the upper and lower Cross Finn
beEs, and ths head waters Of the Brasasiand Trim
isy Rivers, the Trinity being navigable for Steam
Boots flight dTaugh:, from the interior of the
Colony 20 Ihs Gulf of Mexico into which it emp
Iiss. some % miles from Galveston, and Red Riy-
sS, TO the Mississippi, effOrding outlet for the
surplus productions ofthe country. This portion
Of Cezas Is peculiarly adapted 20 the growth Of
wheat, experience within tina last two years hav-
ing tested tie fact that {! will pFoducs 10 bushels
TO Hhe acre, weighing IS to 70 pounus on. the
bushel. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and Irish potatoes, peas, beans, malons garden
vegetable OF all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated inusaeet grass which covers
the praiIes and upon which cattle subsist, and
keep TAT during the winter, and re Iuirs only TO
be occasionally sailed and kept together, to rear
Ihem In great numbers. s
Tbs planting Season commences in February
aud continues until july; but the early crops are
the most productive Emlgrants should go on In
Ihe fell winter, so as TO Do ready TO put in all
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
| Wisconsin, and northern parts Of Illinois and In
diano, should go through Missouri or Arkansas
| 10 Van BuGen, Fort Smith, Fort Towson, Coffee's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
in che direction fihe forks oftho Trinity. Those
going from other sections the Union, south,
should so to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn. or N0tchez, Miss. land themes across
| by land or TO New Orleans al thence By Ste am
! Boat up Red RiveG TO Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place an agent will be stationed, VINO will
give engTants directions es to their route BY land
| to Dallas and StewsTtsvilIe, distance Of som.
900 miles
Our colony is Yspidly filling up with an indus
trious, inielligent and moral people and mus
soon become the most populousparI of Texas 8
! The Government has recently forme1 the counter
I of GrsYsoD, Dalas, Denton, Collin and a part
of Robertson and Navarro within the Grant. Il
Is decidedly the most healthy of the state tAe
lands having having gentle undulating surface
there are ponds, swamps or marines, and nc
local cause FOR disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the Warmest months OF
summer there is a constant breeze playing owe,
che pIaisles, and she nights are Invariably cool;
,he Ihe,momeIsr never rises above 55 to 80, and
in tie winter never falls below 80 degrees Fab.
renheit, IL soounds in springs, aud at the deptt
Va n'Ioob w sWeHt 1eSsp III 4nIuSI pIal'
Tie, tia bess water can be had; all de small
Streams are peculiarly clear and crystal like -
, Colonel William Myers who removed from Gar
VaHd county, KY, last fall, says in letter dated
6th MAY, tS47-"L will not venture TO tell my
friends In Kentucky that the land here was bette
Z than the best land in Kentucky, because theJ
would not believe il: but now assert it, for tht
soil is deeper, being in many places five fee
and the kindess land 20 work ever put plougE
In. verify believe that around the forks Of th,
Trinity. lies the largest body of frst-rate land IL
Amsnqs." From tae forks OF the Trinity e
Santa Fe, is only 60Q miles by the old Spanish
trail and the newspapers In Texas are nov advo
eating che route up che Tsinity ,and from its fork
by land, as 10 every fosr eGt preferable 10 the ont
by Independence, Mo. Why should emigrant
) think of going TO Oregon OF California when theJ
can obtain better land for nothing, so much near
or homo? B liz .+
This is, pefhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever Offer OH the continent of America of gettn
!, lund tor the mere cost of surveys and cost o
DECD Our Colony is emphatically the plac
foP In~ poor mans home: !here he does not hav
20 Eeeu mis- cattle for six or seven months in tn
year; there he will have home market for al
the surplus he can produce for years TO come ,an
with industry and economy, speedily become rich
Let no EmgrAnt lose sight ofthe Important ia
that our contracts with the Government of Texa
!, expire Oh thc Ast day of July, I645, and that h
must not or 7 be In the Colony, but that he mus
have selected hIs land, built house or cabi
ihefeon, and be residing therein with his faml
By that dsy ;--one day after that date, and til
opportunity ofgeiting lands for nothing is, pei
] Aps. lost fos eveV. Persons desiring additions
3 Ih,tmaiion, By addressing the undersigned Tru:
CD D. either ofthem, post paid, shall receiv
onptsuention.
WINS sEEwART,I Trustees cfthe
". C. PEVERs. and Land Company
, Louisville, Sept. lst l647 sg.