Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-02-15
Texas Emigration & Land Company.
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= VIZ TEXAS EMIoRAT1oN AND LAND CoupANY
Il having derived their Grant from the late
republic oi Texas, by contrat IS mnde with the
fresldeIt iheEoi. under authority of the special
acts Of Congress- approved 4tS February, tol
and 10Th January, | S43, granting lands u Emf
MANS, will continue to give 32t acres OF and "
families, aud I6n acres Of land TO single mem
over II Years of age, until Gie-lsts day of July.
io4o, conditioner that the family snail pay S ~.
AMI the single man $40 for The Surveying fees =
family, as defined in our contracts, must con-
sist Of $3.50 5 3ttitsts
"a man an his wife with or without children y.
VA widower with two more children, II
males under II years Of age, il females unmar-
riedn s--s.,,-., -
"a widow with Two or more chiidred; if males
under Il years Of age, if females, unmarried
~ wo single men oyes the age of sf,enteen
years, each one being snIi,lad 10 go acres.''
On his arrival in the Colony, the EnIgrant
should forthwith apply TO the agent of the Com
pany, Mr. Henry D Hedgeoxe, res;dIag al Stew
arisyiile in Denton county, who will al all times
De ready to assist him in the selection of his land
ana enter the same on books kept for that pur.
pose, and give him certificate therefor; which
certItlcaie will be evidence of his having settled
ic the Colony in due time.
Our Grant lies III the Noah-Eastern part of
I Fe2ns. between she 32nd and 34th degrees of
Latitude North, and l9 and p degrees Of Lon
gitude Wesi, from Washington; beginning on the
south side OF lied itiveT. at point miles east
of the False OAn :niita, running thence due
South I0O miles. thence East L64 miles, thence
North lUD miles. thenro West l64 mile1 to- In.
beginning, having front OH the meanderings of
Red River of nearly 300 miles; and includes
within it's limits the upper and lower Cross Tim
bers, and the leRd waters of The Brasas and Trim
itT Rivers, the Trinity being navigaole for Steam
n Limit dPnu tLa Oc
Colony TO the Gulf of Mexico into which it emp
ties, some 25 miles from Galveston, and Red Riv-
er, to the Mississip1fs affordng 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 tl'e fact, that will produce 40 bu shells
10 the acre, weighing 65 TO 70 pounds on the
bushe'. Indian corr, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and Irish potatoes, peas. beans, maons garden
vegetable OF all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated muskeet grass which covers
the praisies and upon which cattle subsist, and
keep fat during the winter, and re Iuire only to
be occasionally sailed and kept together, to real
them in great numbers.
The planting season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
the most productive. Emigrants should go ON in
the fall OF winter. so al 10 De ready to put in an
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin, and northern parts of Illino and In
diana. should go through Missouri or Arkansas
10 Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson, Goffee's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
III the direction Of the forks ofthe Trinity Those
going from other sections of the Union,~ souti',
should so to Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phis, Tenn. or Natchez, Miss. ,and thence across
by land; or to New Orleans al thence by Ste am
Boat up Red River to Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place agant will be stationed, wnr will
give ernigrnnts directions to their route by land
10 Dallas and Ssewartsviile, distance Of som
800 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indus
tsious, intelligent and moral people and mus
soon become the most populous part of Texas
The government has recently iorme the countie
# Greysru, Dallas, Denton, Collin aud n part
of Robertson aud Navarro within the Grant IL
is decideiy the most healthy uarl of the state the
'nn1s having having gentle unIulatng surface;
there are no ponds, swamps or mar hes, and no
local cause .or disease. Fhe atmosphere is pure
and pleasant During the warmest months of
summer there is a. constant breeze playing over
;he pYairies, and the nights are invariably cool !;
the the"mOmntJr never rises above 80 to- 80, and
In the winter never falls below 81 degrees FAN
renheit It abounds IN springs, aud al the depth
ol fifteen or twenty feet, in the midst sf the praI
rte, tne best water can be had; all u e small
streums aie peculiarly clear and crystal like -
Colorel William Myers who removed from Gar
Hlrd county, Ky, last fail, says ir letter dated
6th Nav, !S47-'1 will not venture to tell nv
friends i'll Kentucky that the land here was better
than the best land i'll Kentucky, because they
would not believe il; but now assert it, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places five feet
and the kinHest land 10 work | ever put a plough
III. verify believe that around the forks of The
trinity. lies Ihe largest body OF iTst-rate land in
America" From ,he forks of the Trinity to
santa Fe, is only 6OJ miles by the old Spanish
trail and The newspapers in Texas are now advo-
eating the route up the Trinity ,and its forks
by land, as III every res! ect preferable to the
by Independence, No. Why should emigran,>
think of going to Oregon or California when they
can obtain better land for nothing, so much near
home?
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever offer Oh the continent OF America of getting
lands for the mere cost of surveys and cost OF
deeds Our Colony is emphaticaly the place
tor the poor mans home: there he does not have
10 feed hIs cattle tor 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 Emgrnns lose sight of the important ia I
that our contracts with the Government of Texas
expire the st day of July, 1913, and that he
must not only be IN tho Colony, bur that he must
have selected his land, built house or cabin
thereon, and be residing therein with his family
0y that day one day after that date, and the
opportunity of getting lands for nothing is, per
haps, lost for ever. Persons desiring additional
Information, by addressing the Undersigned Trus-
tees or either of them, post paid, stnll receive
prompt attention.
- Willis STEWART ~ Trustees cfthe
w. C.-PETERs. and Land Company
Louisville, Sept. Ist 1871.