The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
Call for Poor, Cheap Lands Is Light
Spectators No Longer a Fac
tor in the Price of Lands-Mani-
toba Much Favored.
G. R. Gordon Land Company Has
Fifty Thousand Acres of Finest
Improved Farm Property Located
Near Winnipeg and in Grain
Country-Best Business 0pportu-
mites.

1T may be taken for granted that when
the price Of farm land reaches an aver
age Of 500 per acre in any state of the
union, that that state has all the agricul-
tural population which 1t can support,
and that there will be in the near future
an exodus of such members OF its pop
ulation as are either crowded out or are
ambitious to reach a. greater degree of
prosperity than it is reasonable to ex-
pect from the amount Of land already in
their possession
This was the remark Of a successful
farmer from the state of Iowa, who, in
Winnipeg the other day, was asked what
was the matter with his state. There is
nothing the matter with Iowa." he con-
tinued 1.-The state to-day is more pros
porous and more progressive than ever
before in its history, and it will continue
to progress and continue to prosper,
hope, for all time to come. The people
of Iowa, of Illinois, and Of Minnesota,
are to-day doing the same work as did
can say that the older states Of the union
have suffered one particle because their
sons went west and grew up with the
country. It is the destiny of the people
of the western states to be pioneers, and
the present movement Of Americans to
the Canadian northwest is simply the full
ment of that destiny. I might remark,
filment of destiny the pioneers have never
failed to acquire sizeable rolls of this
worlds goods. I consider that those peo-
pie from my state who are now bending
their steps Manitobaward will be no ex-
ception to the rule. and will by their
move materially better their condition. -
That the above sentiment is that of a
large number Of western Americans is
fully shown by the number of purchases
of Manitoba farms made by these people
in the course of the past few years.
Good Improved Lands.
All through Manitoba and the Northwest
territories of Canada the demand for
high-class land has for the last two years
been keen by actual settlers and bona
fide investors. During the early stage
Of this rush the speculator also was a
prominent feature, but more recently he
has ceased to be a factor. The reason
for his elimination is not hard to find
When the rush first started men of this
class failing to realize the vast extent of
the arabic lands in the west, made their
purchases from their Chicago and st.
Louis offices. They bought land for 81
an acre. paid rs cents down and arranged
for longtime on the rest thinking that
when in ten years they were called upon
to pay the balance the land would be
so much enhanced in value that they
would realize enormous profits on their
small investments. They never took the
trouble to inspect their purchases, and as
a result they have overreached them
selves. All the land in the Canadian
Northwest is not good land, and the biz
corporations which have hundreds OF
thousands of acres to sell, seeing that the
speculator wanted cheap lands, gave him
just what he wanted. and at the pres
ent moment many Of these spectators
are loaded down with large sections OF
the country which will never be uesfu]
for anything but grazing. These people