Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-01-25

33O .deres Of land for s2o!-Ie0 Acres Of
land for SO! "a 80 4

! - sSs~JU $So'ANSS
n NHE TEXAS EMIGRATION AND LAND CoMPANY
having derived their Grant from the late
Republic o. Texas. By contracts made with the
PresiGert tserUf. under authority Of ihe special
acls OF Congress, spprwsd 4ta February, .oll
Il and 18th January, SAB, granting lands 10 Emil
afan;s, win eoatInue 70 give 32r acres OF aad !"
/ families, aud i6tI acres Of land 20 single men
over IL .years of age, until tie Isl day Of July,
IS46, conditioned, that the fnmiiy shall pay $50,
aud she single man $40, for he surveying fees -.
/ A family, as defined in our contracts, fnIst con-
4 sist off, ~ f04fQ GAIA JESSE i5lI sFsi'
"A man an his wife viii. or without ckildren''
ga widower with children, if
males under I7yeass Of age, if females unmar.
RED" gs.,-s..
| "A S9idoww with Two or more childred; If males
under Il years Of age, il females, unmarried ,,
''T~o single men over the age of seventeen
! years, each Sne being enttlsd TO l6U acres 81 az
i On has arrival ia 4he Colony, the EinIgra.t
should forthwith apply TO the agent of the Com
pany, Mr.. Henry y. Hedgcoxe, residing al Stew
arssViiIe in Denton county, who will at all times
De ready to assist him in the sesction OF his land
ana enter The same on books kept for that pur.
nose, mud give him certificate therefor; which
certificate will be evidence Of his having settled
1 IL toe Colony in due tiaie - -
! Our Grant lies III the NORTH Eastern part of
FeH's. between che 32nd and 34.h degrees of
| Latitude North, and ~ and - degrees Of Lon
CRUDE west. rom Washington; beginning on the
south side of lied River, at a point II miles east
! OF the kalse} lOua ;hitta, running tlencaL due
South lO0 miles. thence East f64 miles, thence
| North iOO miles thence West I64 miles 20 III.
oeslhnlng, having front on the nleanderings of
| Red River of neerly 300 miles; and includes
WITHIN its limits the upper and lower Gross Tim
nefs, ana the head waters of the Brasas and Trim
ny Rivers, the Trinity being navigable for Steam
BOATS OF light dTaugh:, from the Inferior of the
coiony to the Gulf of Mexico into which it emp
tles, some Is miles from Galveston, and Red Riv-
er, to the Mississippi, aording an outlet for the
surplus productions of the country. This portion
OF Texas is peculiarly adapted TO the growth OF
wheat, experience within the last Two years hav-
ing tested Ie fact, that i! will produce 40 bushels
| 10 the acre, weighing IS to ~ pounds on the
bushe'. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and Irish potatoes, peas. beans, malons garden
vegetnbls OF all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated nuskeet grass which covers
the praifles and upon which cattle subsis, and
keep fat during the winter, and re Iure only 10
b. casionally sailed and kept together, to real
them ia great numbers. "
The planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
the mos; productive. kmigrants should go on in
the tall or winter, 10 De ready to put i'll an
! Wisconsin 0nd northern parts Of llino and In.
diana, should go through Missouri or Arkansas
TO Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson. ttoffee's
SIatol or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
in the direction of the forks oftho Trinity. Those
! going from other SECTIONS of tho Union, sout,,
snou.d go TO Helena or Colunhia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn. or NatcheZ, Miss ,and thence across
by land; or TO New Orleans AZ d thence by Ste am
Boat up Red River TO Shreveport, Lnuisisna, at
\ yhi ch MIN IN b, 81 NIL
give enigrants directions to their route by land
20 Dallas anf Stewartsville, distance OF som
800 miles PEE
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indus
tEious, intelligent and moral people and mus
snon become the most popuoIs part of Texas
The government has recently forme the counte'
nf GrsYsrn, DalIns, Denton, Collin and part
of Robertson aud Navarro within the Grant Ii
is decidedly the most healthy of the state, the
'an5s having having gentle unIulating surface !;
there are no ponds, swamps or mar hes, and no
local cause Tor disease. The atmosphere il pure
and pleasant. During the warlnest months of
summer there is constant breeze playing over
me prairies, and the nights are invariably cool
the thermometer never rises above IS 10 80, and
| IN the winter never falls below 81 degrees Fan
| renhait. IL aboGnds i'll Springs, aud al the depth
of fifteen OF twenty feet, in 'he midst Of the prai
RE, tie best water can be had; all q e small
streams nIe peculiarly clear aud crystal like =
Colonel William Myers who removed from Gar
rT county, KY, last fall, says ir letter dated
oth Nav, lS47-''I will not venture to tell my
friends ia Kentucky that the land here better
than the best land i'll Kentucky, because they
wouad not believe it but now assert it, for the
soil is deeper, being n many places five feet
and the hindest land I'D work | ever put plough
Ill. verify believe that around the forks of the
Trinity. lies the largest body OF iTst-rate land in
America" From the forks of the Trinity to
~anta Fe, is only 60J miles by the old Spanish
trail aud the newspapers in Texas are nov advo-
eating the route up the Trniiy,an from its forks
by land, as i'll every rosr preferable to the one
by Independence, Mo. Why should 'emigran,s
think Of going TO Oregon or California whan they
can obtain better land for nothing, so much near
er home! . -
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever offer the continent OF America Of getting
lands for the mere cost of surveys and cost OF
deeds. Our Colony is emphatically the place
| for the poOrman's home: there he does not have
| "a feed his cattle for six seven months ia the
vedr; there he will have home market for all
the surplus he produce for years TO come, and
with industry and economy, speedily become rich.
Let no Emgrant lose sight of the important ia t
that our contracts with the Government of Texas
expire on the lst day of July, 1913, and that he
must not only be IN the Colony, bur that he must
nave selected his land, built a house or cabin
thereon, and be residing therein with his family
81 by that day Zone dayafte that date, and the
opportunity ofgesting lands for nothing is, per.
haps, lost for ever. Persons desiring additional
4 information, by addressing the undersigned Trus-
tees or either of them, post paid, shall receive
prompt strentlon. F,7.. 4-1, Ett 90
:, WILLIS sTEwART,l Trustees Of the
7 W. T.. PETERS, and Land Company
louisville, Sept. list Io47 .'',.a - a s.