Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-02-22
Texas Emigation & Lend lJompanv.
$40 .aeres Of land for saOt-lsO Acre, Of

- having derived their Giant from the late
Republic Of Texas, By contracts made with the
Rfesidenl theTOi. under authority Of the special
aels Of Congress, approved 4ih February, 1871
and 10Th January, 1919, granting lands 70 Emil
nTanss, will continue 20 give 32u acres otland m
families, and I6iI acres OF lSnd 20 single men
over II Years Of age, until ti.e Ist day of july,
l640, conditioned, that the family shall pay S20
and the single man $40. foe Che surveying fees -
family, as defined 10 our contracts, mist con-
sIst Of
"a man ani hiswife, with. orwithout children. !"
| ga wIdower with two or mose children. IL
males under II years Of age, il females unmar-
ried" eIs Ilgt aa E
"a widow with two or more childred; if males
under II years Of nge, if females, Unmarried t" 2
"Two single men oyer the ag,, of seventeen
yeaYs, each one being entitled to 100 acres :"
On his arrival in the Colony, the Emigran,
should forthwith apply to the ugent of the Com
p"ny, mr.. Henry .. Hedgcoxn, residing at Stew
aFssVIle IN Denton county, WHO will al all times
De ready to assist him in the selection Of his land
and enter the Same on books kepr for that pur,
pose, and give him certificate therefor; which
certificate will be evidence Of his having settled
| ia the Colony in due time.
Our Grant lies in the NORTHEASTERN part of
Texas, between the Sand and 34th degrees of
Latitude North, and 10 and % degrees OF Lon
gitude West, from Washington; beginning on the
south side at Red River at point II miles east
OF the False Ounchitta, running thence due
South 100 miles. thence East 81 miles, thence
North lUO miles. thence West l64 miles 20 the
beginning, having front on the nIeanderings of
Red River of neerly 300 miles; and includes
within It's limits the upper and lower Gross Tim
oeEs, and ths aead waters of the BrasasSand Trim
it's Rivers, the Trinity being navigabe for Steam
Boats Of light dFeugh!, from the interior of the
Colony 20 the Gulf of Mexico into which it emp
ties, some IS miles from Galveston, and Red Riv-
eT, to the Mississippi, afording an outlet for the
surplus productions Of the country. This portion
Of Eexae is peculiarly adapted TO the growth of
wheat, experience within the last Two years hav-
ing tested ihe fact, that will produce 40 bushels
TO the acre, weighing 65 to 70 pounds on the
oushe'. Indian corn, rye, barley, oats, sweet
and Irish potatoes, peas. beans, malons garden
vegetables of all kinds, cotton, hemp and tobacco,
and the celebrated ,nusNeet grass which covers
the prairies and upon which cattle subsisi, and
keep fat during the winter, and re.Iuire only 10
be occasionally ealted and kept together, to rear
them in great numbers
Tbs plentin9 Season commences in February
and continues until July; but the early crops are
the most productive. Emigranrs should go on in
tbs fall or winter, so TO be ready to put i'll an
early crop. Those going from Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin and nofihefn parts Of Iliino and In.
to Van Buren,, Fort Smith, Fort Towson. Cofee's
Station or Pine Bluff, thence into the settlements
i'll the direction of the forks Ofthe Trinity. Those
going from other sections of the Union, south,
should go 10 Helena or Columbia, Ark, Mem
phs, Tenn, or Natchez, Miss ,and thence across
by land; or TO New Orleans al d thence by Ste am
Boat up Red River to Shreveport, Louisiana, at
which place an agent will be stationed, wnc will
give elnigrants directions to their route by land
| 70 Nall IL. =.
| 900 miles
Our colony is rapidly filling up with an indus
tTious, intelligent and moral people and mus
snon become the most populous part of Texas
The Government has recently forme the counties
Of GreYson, Dallas, Deaton, Collin and a part
| of Robertson and Navarro within the Grant. Il
is decidedly the most healthy of the state the
lands having having gentle unduleting surface /;
there are no ponds, swamps or marines, and no
local cause for disease. The atmosphere is pure
and pleasant. During the warmest months Of
summer there is a constant breeze playing over
che pfaiTies, and the nights invariably cool !;
| the Thermometer never rises above IS 20 80, and
III Tie winter never falls below 80 degrees FAN
renheit. IL abounds in springs, aud at the depth
of fifteen oP twenty feet, in the midst Of the pra
| RE, tAe best water can be had; all tie small
| streams are peculiarly clear and crystal like =
Colonel William Myers who removed from Gar
ilrd county, Ky, last fall, says in letter dated
SIN Nav, iS47-"I will not venture to tell my
friends i'll Kentucky that the land here was better
| than the best land in Kentucky, because they
would noI believe it; but now assert it, for the
soil is deeper, being in many places FIVE feet
ana the kindesl land 10 work ever put plough
| III. verify believe that around the forks of the
trinity lies the largest body Of first-rate land in
America" From Ine forks of the Trinity to
Santa Fe, is only 600 miles by the old Spanish
trail and the newspapers in Texas are now advo-
eating the route up the Triniiy,and IRON its forks
by land, as in every rosr ect preferable to the
by Independence, Mo. Why should emigrants
think Of going 20 Oregon or California when they
can obtain better land for nothing, SO much near
or home?
This is, perhaps, the last opportunity that will
ever offer on the continent of America Of getting
| lunds for the mere cost Of surveys and cost of
| deeds. Our Colony is emphatically the place
| for the poor mans home: there he does not have
10 feed his cattle for six 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
that our contracts with the Government of Texas
expire OH the LIST day of July, I846, and that he
must not only be TN the Colony, but that he must
have selected his land, built house or cabin
thereon, and be residing therein with his family
by that day;-one day after that date, and the
opportunity ofge.ting lands for nothing is, per
haps, lost for ever. Persons desiring additional
information, by addressing the undersigned Trus
tees or either ofthsm, post paid, shall receive
prompt attention, -
Willis STEwART,) Trustees ofthe
JOHN J. SMITH, TEXAS Emigration
W. c. PETsRs. and Land Company
Louisville, Sept. Ist IS47.
EMPORIUM OF FASHION,