TEXAS REAL ESTATE AND GOLD DRAWING. / OFFICIAL LIST OF NUMBERS DRAWN AT HOUSTON, TEXAS, JUNE 30, '75. / J.E. FOSTER, MANAGER

NP [Houston, TX?]: np, July 3, 1875. Broadside. 43 x 28 cm. Old fold lines, a few small breaks at folds, scattered foxing. A very good copy overall. Prize numbers and ticket numbers printed in eleven columns. Information on "approximation prizes" printed below, announcing the amounts of gold or lots in Foster's 2d North Addition to City of Houston won. Certified in type by the committee members superintending the drawing, J.C. Conliff, E. Pillott, Z.T. Hogan, and J.H. Mason, and signed in type by A. McGowan, Justice of the Peace, Harris County. No listings found on OCLC. Item #67076

J.E. Foster billed his company, Foster's Land Agency and Bureau of Emigration as the oldest land agency in Houston, in "The Texas Rural Register and Immigrants' Hand-book, for 1875," [B.F. Hardcastle & Co.: 1875, p.76]: "Owners of Texas lands will find it to their advantage to give me the agency of their lands, as the extensive advertising I have done throughout the United States in the interest of the Texas Prize Concert and Real Estate Drawing has placed me in communication with thousands of persons who intend making Texas their future home, and a large number of persons who are desirous of securing larger bodies of land for colonization purposes." In this same publication he also advertises his "Second Real Estate and Gold Drawing" to be held on March 3, 1875 in Houston. Evidently it became a regular event.

Price: $600.00