Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-05-23
Texas Emigration 8 Land Company.
800 .asres Of lend for s2O!-I6O Acre. Of
IGns for $40!

To- i
NHH TEEAs EMGAArIoN AND LAND CoxpAsE
Il eSEing derived their Grant from ths Lass
1spubltO Of Texas, By contracts made With the
Fsssiders Thereof. undes authority Of the special
sess Of Congress, approved 4ta February, lS4I
and l6sh January, l343, granting Iands 50 EH,i
Grants. will eoatinuo give 32u acres Of iaad V
families. aud 100 acres Of land so single 1isn
oveI IL years Of agss until the Isi day Of July.
ioa5, conditioned, that ihs GaMily shall pay $40,
Sna ths single man gle, loS the surveying fees -
faRily. as defined In our contracts, must coA-
sist Of
"a man an his wife will. or wi,hous children 81
"a wIdowss 9Th txo more childEsn, If
matss undsf II gesES Of sgs, u females unmal.
Sts6"
"a widow With swe o. moro cAlIdssd; 10 males
uodcP IL yes's Of "ge, II females, uamarried.U
"Fwo single men ewes the sge Of seventeen
years, each one Being entitled 20 100 acres >,
% his arrival in toe Colony, the EmISrans
should forthwith apply 10 tho egen1 of ihe Com
paoy. Ne. Henry Q. Hedgeoxe, residing al Stew
aStSvile 10 Denton county, who will az all timeSl
be 'esdY TO assist him 10 the sesctinn Of bis land
and enter ths same on books kept foT that pur.
noss. and give him . certificate therefor; which
certificate will 0sevldsncs ofhis having settled
10 the Colony in due tims.
Our Grant ilss in the NOrih-EasisSn part of
Tea 70, bsSEesn she 33n6 and 9th degrees Of;
Lssitnde North, and 10 aud % degrees Of Lon
gtuds West, from Washington; beginning on the
south side Of Red River, at point IL miles east
Of the Ralse Oualhitta, running thence due
South 100 miles. thence East j 81 miles, thence
North 100 miles. thence West 1874 miles'to che
beginning, having font on che meenderings of
Red River of nearly 800 miles; and includes
Within its limits the upper and lower Cross Tim
beFs, and tbs head waters Of the Brasasiand Tin
ity Rivers, the Trinity being navigable for Steam
Goats flight draugh:, from the interior of the
Colony 20 ths Gulf of Mexico into which 10 emp
nes' some % miles from Galveston, and Red Riv-
err, TO the Mississippi, sifofdng an outlet for the
surplus productions ofGhe country. This portion
OF Texas ls peculiarly adapted 20 che growth OF
wheat, experience within the last two Pears hav-
ing tested Ife fact, GhattG will pToducs 10 bushels
40 she acre, weighing 65 to 70 pounus on the
bushe!. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, SWEEP
and Irish potatoes, peas. beans. melons garden
vegetables OF all kinds cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and Ghe celebrated InusReet grass which covers
the prsiTies and upon which cattle subsist, and
Keep far during the winter, and re Iuire only 60
be occasionally sailed and kepI together. to rear
them IN great numbers.
Tbs planting Season commences in February
aud continues until July but the early crops ere
Ihe most productive. Emigrants should 90 on 10
the fall W winter, 10 De ready TO put in an
early crop. Those going from Missouri, lowe,
Wisconsin, and northern parts Of IIlino and In
aiana, should go through Missouri or Arkansas
90 Van Buren,, Fors Smith, Fort Vowson, Cofee's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlement.
Ia che direction OF she forks oIhe Trinity. Those
going from other sections ofth Union, South,
should go 90 Helena or Columbia, Arb, Mem
phis, Tenn. or Natchez, Miss, and thence across
ny land; or TO New Orleans ar thence By Ste am
boat up Red River to Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place an agent will be stationed, wnc will
give eInigVRnts directions as 90 their By land
TO Dallas AMI Stswar.sville, q distance Of som
300 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indus
Tlous, intelligent and moral people and mus
soon become the most populousparI Of Texas
The Government has recently Iorms1 the countle'
nf GEsysnn, Dallas, Denton, Collin and q part
Of Robertson aAd Navarro within the Grant. u
Is decidedly the most healthy part Of the state the
an5s HAVING having gentle undulating surface
iheTe are no ponds, swamps or marines, and no
local cause for disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the Varmest months OF
summer there is constant breeze playing over
ine pTai7ies, and the nights are Invariably cool
the thermometer never rises above 80 TO Do, and
in the winter never fallt below 80 degrees FAN
renhsit. 10 abounds in springs, aud az the depth
ne, ths best water can be had; sll che email
streams are peculiarly clear and crystal like -
Colonel William Myers who removed from Car
NaId county, KY, lasI fall, lays il letter dated
5th MAY, lS4I-"L will not venture 90 tell my
friends In Kentucky that she land here WAS Deter
than the best land in Kentucky, because they
would not believe it: but now assert it, for the
soil is deeper, being 10 many places five feet
and the kindesG land 60 worn ever put plough
in. verify believe that around the forks Of the
trinity. lies the Largest body of hrsITaie land In
America" From the forks Of the Ttinity TO
SANTA Fe, is only 800 miles by the old Spanish
GrOii and ihe newspapers In Texas are COW advo-
eating the route up ihs Tsiny.a and from lite forks
by land, as 10 every respect preferable 90 the one
by Independence, No. Why should eniarants
think ofgoing 60 Oregon OF California when they
can obtain better land for nothing, so much near
or honel
This 10, pefhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever Offer OH the continent Of America Of getting
land tor the mere cost of surveys and cost Of
desdl Our Colony is emphatically the place
foT IN pooTman's home: there he does not have
10 feeu ais cattle for six or seven months in the
year; there he will have a home market for all
ihe surplus he can produce for years to come and
With industry and economy, speedily becomef rich
Let no Emigrantlose sight ofthe important "a I
that our contracts with the Government of Texas
expire OH IN .st day of July, l645, and that he
must not or 7 be IN the Colony, bur that he must
have Selected ME land, built house or cabin
thereon, and be residing therein with his family
by that day ;-ona day after that date, and the
opportunity ofgetting lands for nothing is, per.
APPS, lost for ever. Persons desiring additional
formation, by addressing the undersigned Trus
o. u either ofthem, post paid, Shall receive
.onpS strention.
WILLIS STEwART,I Trustees ofEbe
JOHN J. SMITH, ; Teras Emigration
". c. Peters. } and Land Company