Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-11-30
THE VALUE OF LAND.
Ma. EprroR;

| Mr.. EDITOR;
Permit me through your newspaper to
offer a few remarks with regard to the
value of Land, in this section Of country.
compared with its value in different parts
of Europe, and compared with Labour
here:
LAND, the greatest and best gift of God,
10 man; and the best friend to the Human
Family in general, from which all derive
support, from the greatest men, to the
smallest insects on earth;
HE EMPEROR OF Russia, the QUEEN
OF ENGLAND, The KINe OF THE FRENCH
the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
and all OF us, all are dependent on the
soil for support, and to the labour of all,
1t yields annually large interest, and
pays it promptly: And yet Land IN the
new States is low enough for almost every
industrious person to procure enough for
comfortable home, which cannot be the
case many years longer, as the public do
main is fast passing into the possession Of
agricultural lists:
When we take into consideration the
high price of Land in different parts of
Europe, which sometimes sells at Five
Hundred, and thousand Dollars per acre,
for good, rich Land that will retain its
value; and can seldom be purchased at
these prices:
And that the emigration from almost
every part of Europe, is greater than it
ever has been, and is yet on the increase,
as will ha eaay, b,z ref,.oy,,,o ~ 4b, Tane.,c
of 1910, which shows that our population
has doubled in about twenty three years,
and we now number more than four times
as many as we did fifty years ago, and tho
increase must, and will, settle in the new
States; And when we take into consid-
Grafton that this is the most desirable
climate in the world, here we can grow
the produce Of the south, as well as the
north, and that the United States have ac-
qaired all the Indian Land they can ac-
quire 10 this latitude, and that a large por-
ton, may say, nearly all that will sus-
tain population,or that can be cultivated
probably, has beer sold by the United
States.
The Tabular Statements printed at
Washington City, and copied into other
Journals, sho1o large amount of ttnsOld
Land in Mississippi, aud Adl6dma, lcith'
out commenting on the quality, but they are
only calculated TO deceive The people and
the government:
And when we take into consideration
the importance of the cotton crop of the
United States. not only TO the Planters,
bat to the manufacturers, carriers, Fac
tors, and even to the Governments of
the United States and other manufacturing
countries; and that the growing of Cotton
In the British Possessions in the East
Indies, has proved SO near future, we
may defy competition from that quarter,
and that land is rapidly increasing in value
in Illinois, Western Missouri, Arkansas,
and even in Texas;-It must be apparent
10 every rejecting person who wishes 10
provide good home for himself, and fam
lily (if he has one) that this is the time to
do so; for be assured that good Land that
will retain its soil, must, and will gradually
rise in value, in proportion to the increase
Of population, until it approaches Euro
Pean prices. Unless the ingenuity of man
should invent some other method OF raising
prod ice to sustain nature. other than from
The soil; (which is not probable
1t gratifying 10 learn, that while much
of the Land in this, and other States, has
become sterile, there is yet much good
Land in the Prairie Region, above, and
below Columbus; and in the valley of the
Mississippi River for sac, many acres Of
similar Lard have produced from thirty,
to forty Dollars worth of Produce TO the
acre this year; and do com end that good
Land that will retain It's value, is well
worth as much per acre, as the value of
the produce ii is capable of yielding in one
year after it is put into good state Of
cultivation, as the owner or cultiyator
would have the use of it forever after, and
that would be putting high price upon
labour, as the Land forever, is inlrinsicaily
worth more than the labour of making
and saving one crop, provided the Land
is good, yet strange to tell, it can yet be
purchased for one third of its intrinsic val.
ne, or less.
Respectfully.
A SPECTATOR.
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