New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-29
ISSUES OF A GREAT YEAR
THE FARMS INCREASING IN VALUE.

BETTER TIMES IN THE NEAR FUTURE FOR THE
MEN WHO TILL THE SOIL.
From The Weekly Tribune.
Within the last eight months i have travelled
extensively through the States of New-YoriS,
PENNSYLVANIA. Ohio, Indiana. Michigan, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. In con-
veration with hundreds Of farmers and business
men in each one of these States, have learned
that the verdict is nearly unanimous that land has
been increasing in value steadily for nearly two
years past
In Kansas have visited twenty counties The
people | met have assured me that land will TO
day bring from So TO SIS more per acre than it
would two years ago. The statements made in
Nebraska have been TO the same effect. In
Iowa the improvement in price is placed still
higher. In the vicinity of Atlantic City l
assured by trustworthy men that farming lands
are fully $40 higher than they in
1889, land that sales are much more readily
made, eat those advanced prices, than they Were
two years ago at the very low prices Of that date
have been in more than twenty counties in
Iowa In no place do the people put the rise
in land at less than $40 per acre.
In Wisconsin the rise is just pronounced
but the increase is not great per acre.
In Illinois the statements all agree that land
has advanced in price within two years between
$40 and $50 per acre. In the neighbOrhood Of
Paris, Sterling Alton and Decatur the advance
in the price is admitted by all with whom have
conversed.
In Michigan the advance is marked. but not SO
large as in Illinois.
In Ohio, after visiting thirty of her counties.
/ am able to state that farming lands in that
State have risen in value between SIS and $l5
per acre within two years. The tone of the Ohio
a1.- ol,n hin, Mt
period. They have ceased to be Respondent and
are now full of courage and hope.
In NewYork and Pennsylvania the improve
ment is not as great as in the West yet there
is decided change for the better in these two
States also. From my personal observation, am
able to state that times are more promising, and
that there is prosperity in store for men who till
the soil
Although my opportunities for observation have
been quite extensive still aware that no
man, by travelling through a country. can see and
reach people enough to form an opinion on so i'm.
portant a matter which will be accepted alb
solutely conclusive l am very anxious to know
what the exact facts with regard TO this mat
ter, in order that may form q correct judgment
on the simple question as to whether the farms
of the United States are higher or lower in value
than they were two years ago. / am going 10
ask the men who read this article TO drop me a
line, in care of The Tribune stating the facts as
TO the land in their immediate vicinity. Please
DO not enter into any extended explanation as 20
the cause causes, if any, for the change. If
lands have not changed in value, / would be glad
to have you kindly say If they have fallen
in price, please state how much or if lands are
higher, say that and state how much. 1 will
promise carefully to compile this testimony and
give the result through the columns of The
Tribune. After the facts determined,
we can look up the causes and speculate upon the
results.
Ny attention has been called to this subject by
the statements of some persons, who deny the
correctness of my observations / would like TO
get at the exact truth and take this method by
asking the friends and readers of The Tribune
to send me the facts as to the town in which
each lives. OF course do not ask hundred
thousand readers of The Tribune to write me but
those men who that their business ex
perience and observation are extensive enough 10
enable them to judge accurately as to the facts
will oblge me by writing requested above
X. G. HORR.