Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-03-21
Texas Emigration 8 and Company.
$40 Acres IF 4ahd5or SaO!Ai6O .aere. of
land for $L0!/ AZ

Z hHE FExAs EMIGRATION AND LAND COMPANY
having derived shei4 GIANT from the late
Republic OF Texas, by contracts made with the
President theroI. under authority of, the special
acts of Congress, sppraved 4ik February, 1871
end 10Th January, i543, granting lanhs to Emf
nraniss will coatlnue 10 give $40 acres OF and 10
families, aud i6n acres of lnnd 10 single men
over IL Years of age, until the let day of July.
l6aS, conditioned, that the lnmily shall pay S20,
anil the single man St0 for the surveying fees
A family, as. defined in our contracts, must con-
sist Of fss, s,.-,t -.... ILL. -t,-,.-.. .rt}
. 4 man an his wife with. or without chidren.'
"a wIdoWer with two more children, if
males under II years Of age, il females unmar-
Fied."
"a widow will, two or IN ere ci1iiclred; if males
under IL years Of nge, II females. unmarried y =
s'Two single men over che age of seVentesns
yeaTs, each one being entitled 10 l6D acres -
On his arrival in the Colony, the EnIgr1nt
should forthwith apply co the agent of the Cons
pany, Mr. Henry .. Hedgccxe, residing at stew i
aslsvilie in OenCpn county, who will at all times
be ready to assist him in the selectirn Of his land
and enter the same on books kept for that pur.
nose, and give him certificate therefor; which
certificate will be eyidence OF his having settled
ia the Colony la due fine 1855 ---'fi ~
Our Grant lies in tho North-Eastern part of
Fez &. between the 32nd aud 34th degrees of
Latitude North, AID ~ and % degrees of Lon
gitude Wssi, from Washington; beginning on the
south side of Red River, at a point ; miles east
of tne False Qua ;hitta, running thence due
South 100 miles. thence East 81 miles, thence
North 100 miles. thence West l64 miles to III
6saianiug, having a front Oh the meanderings of
Red River of nearly 300 miles; and includes
within its limits the upper and lower Gross Tim
bers, and tIs lead waters OF the Brasas and Trim
Ity Rivers, she FFinity being navigaole for Steam
Boats Of light dPaugh:, from the interior Of the
Colony 10 the Gulf of Mexico into which it emp
ties, aome 35 miles from Galveston, ana Red Riv-
er, to the Mississippi, afordng outlet fer the
surplus productions of the country. This portion
of Texas is peculiarly adapted 10 the growth OF
wheat, experience within the last two years hav-
ing tested tile fact, that will produce 40 bushels
90 the acre, weighing 65 to ~ pounds the
bushel. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet
aud Irish potatoes, peas. beans, malons garden
vegetable Of all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated inuskeet grass which covers
The ps8ifies ann upon which cattle subsisi, and
keep fai during the winter. and re lure only to
b. OCCASIONALLY salted and kept together, to rear
them in great numbers. weasel.
Tbs planting season commences in February
aud continues until July; but the early crops are
the most productive. Emigrants should go on in
the tall W winter. so as to DE ready to put III an
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin, and northern parts IF Illino and In
DIANA should go through Missouri or Arkansas
to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Fowson. Coffee's
5tatio, or Pine Bluff, thence into TIE settlements
in the direction of the FORKS ofthu Trinity. These
going from other sections of the Union, sout i.
should go to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn. or Natchez, Miss, land thence across
by land or to New Orleans AZ d thence by Ste am
Boat up Red River 10 Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place an agent will be stationed, wnv viii
give engPRnts directions as to their route by land
to Dallas and Stewertsville, distance OF som
200 miles
Our colony lie rapidly filling up with an}indur
tgious, intelligent and moral people and mus
soon become the most popuo1s part of Texas
Fhe Governments has recently forme the countie
If Greysrn, Dallas, Denton, Collin and a part
of Robertson and Navarro within the GRAM IL
is decidedly the most healthy part of the state the
lands having having n gentle unduating surface !;
there are no ponds, swamps or mar hes, and no
local cause Tor disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months of
summer there is constant breeze playing over
The p9aipies, and the nights are invariably cool;
the thermometer never rises above S5 to 80, and
III tile winter never falls below 30 degrees FAN
renheit IL abounds in springs, aud at the depth
OF fifteen oPtwenty feet, in the midst of the pfai
RE. the best water can be had; all q e small
streams ore peculiarly clear aud crystal like -
Colonel William Myers who removed from GAR
fart county, Ky, last fail, says IL letter dated
5ih Nav, iS47-sI will not venture to tell my
friends in Kentucky that the land mere was better
than the best land in Kenturky, herause they
would not believe il; but now assert it, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places FIVE feat
and the biadest land To work | ever put plough
i'll. verify believe that around, the forks of The
trinity. lies the largest body of frst-rate land i'm
America" From tne forks of the Tfinity to
SANTA Fe, is only CO., miles by the old Spanish
tTnii and the neWspapers in Texas are nov advo-
eating the up the Triniiy, land its forks
by land, in every rosr preferable to the Que
by Independence No. Why should emigranis
think Of going to Oregon or California when they
can obtain better land fornothing, so much near
| er home! - es-
This is, perhaps. the last opportunity that will
ever offer OIL the continent of America of getting
tund for the mere cost of surveys and cost OF
deed Our colony is emphaticallye the place
! Tor tp pourmIn home: there he does not have
90 tebU hs cattle tor six or seven months in the
| year; there he will have a home market for all
the surplus he can produce for years TO come, md
with Industry and economy, speedily become rich
Let no Em,grantlose sight ofthe important ia
that our cont -acts with the Government of Texas
expire Oh tn .st day of July, lS4S, and that he
! must not o, be IN the Colony, but that he mus,
| have selected his land, built a house or cabin
thegeom. and be residing therein with his family
| by shat lay;-one day after that date, and the
opportunity OF getting lands for nothing is, per
Fps, lost for ever. Persons desiring additional
..,rmatlon. By addressing the undersigned Trus-
n either ofthem, post paid, shall receive
opnnl attention, &. nsasaf eaf n<
SIS WILLIs STEWART Trustees q the
ie J1HN =. SAITH, Teas Emigration
Iao, sssg :. G. PEFERs, J aud Land Company
L sViile. Sent Ist Ihd7
lSr q aud Me- KUN, Holland. Gin, Nal