Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-01-04
Texas Emigration & Land Company
52o .4cres Of land for S2O!-l6O .4cres O
land for $40!
2 7nE TEXAS EMIGRATION AND LAND COMPANY

NHE Texas EMIGRATION AND LAND COMPANY
Il having derived their Grant from the late
republic OF Texas, by contracts made with the
President Thereof. under authority of the special
acts of Congress, approved 4tA February, 1911
and 10th January, lS43, granting lands 10 Emil
nIan;s, will continue TO give 800 acres OF land "
families, and 100 acres Of land TO single men
over II years of age, until the lst day Of July,
1915, conditioned, that the family shall pay $40,
and the single man $40, for the surveying fees =
family, as defined in our contracts, must con-
sist of
"a man AMI hiswife. with. or without children''
VA wIdower with two or more children, if
males under II years Of age, if females unmar-
ried."
"a widow with TWO or more childred; if males
under IL years Of nge, if females, unmarried"
"fwo single men ovet the age of seventeen
| years, each one being entitled to I6O acres ~
On his arrival in the Colony, the Emigrant
should forthwith apply to the agent of the Com
pany, Mr.. Henry .. Hedgcoxe, residing at Stew
artsvlie III 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
| in the Colony i'll due time.
Our Grant lies i'll the Norh-Eastern part OF
| Texas, between the 32nd and 34lh degrees of
gitude West, from Washington; beginning Oh the
south side of Red River, at point IL miles east
| OF the False Ou0ehitta, running thence due
South 100 miles. thence East l64 miles, thence
| North 100 miles, thence West l64 miles TO the
| beginning, having a front OIL the meanderings of
Red River of nearly 300 miles; and includes
| within its limits the upper and lower Gross Tim
bers, and tins head waters Of the Brasas.and Trim
ity Rivers, the Trinity being navigable for Steam
Rnafc Of limit Svu t,uhSf tba
Colony to the Gulf of Mexico into which il emp
! ties, some 25 miles from Galveston, and Red Riv-
er, to the Mississippi, affording outlet fer the
| surplus productions of the country. This portion
| of Texas is peculiarly adapted to the growth of
wheat, experience within the last two years hnv-
ing tested the fact, that il will produce 40 bushels
10 the acre, weighing s. to 10 pounds on the
bushel. Indian corI, 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
| HE praines and upon which cattle subssl, and
| keep fat during the winter, and re Iuirs only TO
be occasionally sailed and kept together, to real
| them i'll great numbers.
Ihe planting season commences in February
and continues until July but tho early crops are
| the most productive. Emigrunts should go on in
the fall Or winter, SO TO DC ready to put in an
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
| diam, should go through Missouri or Arkansas
| TO Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson, Coffee's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
III the direction of the forks Oftho Trinity. Those
| going from other sections Of the Union, south,
| should go to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn. or Natchez, Miss. and thence across
by land or to New Orleans ar thence by Ste am
Boat up Red River to Shreveport, Louisiana, at
| which place agent will be stationed, wnc will
give emigrants directions to their by land
to Dallas and StewartsviIle, a distance of som.
300 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indus
t:ious, intelligent and moral people and mus
soon become the most populous part of Texas
The Government has RECENTLY formed the counties
of Grayson, Dallas, Denton, Collin and part
of Robertson and Navarro within the Grant. 1t
is decidedly the most healthy part of the state the
lands having having gentle undulatng surface;
there are no ponds. swamps or marines, and no
local cause Tor disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant During the warmest months Of
summer there is a constant breeze playing over
che pEairles, and the nights are invariably cool;
the Thermometer never rises above IS to 80, and
IN the winter never fails below 80 degrees Fab
renheit. Ii aboGnds in Springs, aud at the depth
OF fifteen oP twenty feet, in the midst of the pra
RE, the best water can be had; all tie small
streams are peculiarly clear and crystal like -
Colonel William Myers who removed from Gar
rard county, KY, last fall, says in letter dated
9th Nav, lS47-"I will not venture to tell my
friends ill kentucky that the land here was better
than the best land in Kentucky, because they
would not believe it; but now assert it, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places five feet
and the kindesl land 10 work l ever put a plough
i'll. verify believe that around the forks of the
Trinity. lies the largest body of firs-rate land i'm
| Amenca." From the forks Of the Trinity 10
Santa Fe, is only 600 miles by the old Spanish
trail aud the newspapers in Texas are now advo-
eating the route up the Trinity,and from its forks
by land, in every rosrect preferable to the one
by Independence, Mo. Why should emigrants
think of going to Oregon or California when they
can obtain better land for nothing, SO much near
Ell home?
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
| ever offer on 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 poor mans home: .here he does not have
20 feed his cattle for six or seven months in the
year; there 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 ct
| that our contracts with the Government of Texas
expire OH the LIST day of July, 1913, and that he
must not only be IN the Colony, but that he must
| have selected his land, built house or cabin
thereOn1 ana DC IeslollS tnereIn win MS FAMILY
| by that day ;-one day after that date, and the
opportunity ofgetting lands for nothing is, per-
hans, lost for ever. Persons desiring additional
information, by addressing the Undersigned Trus-
tees or either of them, post paid, shall receive
prompt attention.
WILLIS STEwART,) Trustees Of the
JOHN j. Smith, TEXAS Emigration
| w. C. Peters. and Land Company.
| Louisville, Sept. LIST lS47. y