Omaha daily bee., 1882-10-10
IA FUTURB IOWA
The Certain Reward Which Awaits
the Possessors of Her Fertile
Acres.

the P~ossessors OF Her Fertile
Acres.
Dos Ioincs Register.
Senator Larabee is one of the far.
seeing mon who know tho value oi
Iowa lan6s. He has recently bought
over Ii, 200 acres in n body in Lyon
county, i'll the northwestern corner OF
the state. 1t is the wisost investment
made in Iowa by one man in ten
years. 1t is sure to be largely prohta.
bio beyond any and all doubt, 1t is
said hat he paid only a few dollars All
acre, If so, it is more than n Oplen.
did Investment. The best place on
earth we know of now to put surplus
money, is in Iowa land. The arabic
domain of the United States
is nearly all taken up. Soon
there will DO no more west
TO go toto take up homesteads or
find cheap farming lands. So that II
will not be long till the reaction will
sweep in, and in the rebound Iowa,
with its unequaled soil, and its mil.
lions of idle acres, will catch the best
buyers. This will come in five years.
lndood, 1t ID appearing now. Iowa
need not worry over foreign immigra-
ton, or about not getting enough of
it. Just aheao, not very many years
off Mt the longest, it is destined to BIZ
flooded with the people of its own
nation, who want to buy farms In u
rich soil. When all the arabic part of
the public domain shall have been
taken up, and the wave of settlement
shall begin to return TO fad unoccu.
pied lands in settled states, Iowa will
have TO competition then, for there is
no state that has the land of deep soil
and sure crops and good health and
ready access 10 market that 1t has. IL
can have no rival because there IL no
state that presents to agriculturaliets
the many superior virtues 1t can. AT
| the turthcrest this time is not ten
years of. 1T is probably not FIVE years
away. Indeed 1t ID practically here
now, for, whilo a year ago Iowa mad
millions of acres of idle land for which
there were no buyers, it does not con-
tam an acre now that will not find a
,cady buyer at cash. With the in
creased demand prices have gone up,
Bat even yet the lands in lowe
which are for aRlc are tho cheap
est thioGu and gIeatest bargaina
in the Uoi,ed States just now to
buy, Unimproved land that sells now
at "a and So an acre and cultivated
farms that sell for from $40 to $l5 per
acre, are not selling at half their retail
value. After the public domain shall
have been exhausted of all its farming
lands, the land of Iowa will very
quickly 60 up to an average value of o
800 per acre. Even now, what is u
500 for an acre of Iowa land, with
the hundred corn crops that lie in it
only waiting to be taken, year by year,
Apply the closer and intelligent cult
walton of Holland or Germany or
France to an acre of Iowa land, and
what would it not produced
Jay Gould, the longest-headed
American who ever lived, said to the
writer of this once, in speaking of
Iowa, its extraordinary soil and no
waste land, and it's inevitable imperial
future, that ''the man who owns 1G0
acres of Iowa land has a fortune for
his children If not for himself" There
is nj possible doubt of this. There is
nothing more certain. So it Is wis.
dom to put surplus money in Iowa
land. Amy mar why puts money into
it for investment will be profted by 1t.
The young man who will get hold of
80 or 160 acres of it, even if he buys
it on time and then works to pay for
it, as he can soon do, Ia assured of GER
tain good living all his life and very
possible fortune.
We are coming to the second Iowa.
The present state and people are rich,
and have had their riches created as
if by magic. The average farm, en-
tered as II homestead, or bought at
$l.25 an acre, is now worth $40 sn
acre, and has meantime made a good
living for it's owner, and perhaps a
second family likewise. Here is an
appreciation of many millions of dol
lars-hundreds of millions Of dollars,
indeed. This is the rich harvest of
great fortune that the first Iowa has
gained. Bnt the second Iowa will
reap even more richly. For the past
advance from So to $40 an acre in the
part of the state now improved will 20
on from $40 to 500 in twelve or
fifteen years, while in the new part i.
will go frsm the 81 or So as now sell
ing to $50 and 500 in the same time.
Why dream of gold mines, railroad
stocks and speculation in Iowa, when
there lies right at every ones hands q
chance just aH golden and q hundred
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