The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-08-20
Official City Paper.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1908,
OPPORTUNITY is ON PARADE.

The National Progress, magazine
just born at Chicago publishes an article
from the famous Joaquin Miller entitled
"1'he Best Banks on the Continent His
idea of the best bank Is a sand bank or a
clay bank or any kind Of an investment
in land. This same Cincnnatus Miller,
generally known as "Joaquin' has made
success Of every thing he has ever
tackled excepting three thngs-Wall
street, ma'rimony, and newspaper, and
he knows what he is talking about. IIe
made a fortune once out Of writing
poetry, but he admits that buying land
lays 1t all over poetry for sure profit.
Years ago be went broke OH Wall street
and had to borrow money to start with.
He invested in land. Now his advice to
every American is to get land, and keep
getting land. Mr.. Miller says "Peorle
are coming to this country by The mill
ions, We were never quite believed in
never quite discovered, till the Spanish
war. But now every thing is coming
this way: ships, people, money, the
world. And the people are meyer fool
ish enough to hang about the towns.
They must and will haye land Another :
reason why land is going to double in the
next few years is that the public domain =
is almost entirely exhausted" y
Taking IT here at home The people do
not need this ADVICE, Every person in y
Ford county knows that every investment =
in land here in The past few years bar II
doubled the investors capital. Those y
who have Lot bought land are well aware ''
of the success Of their neighbOrs who W
have. There are people further east ~
though who do not know that the gates ~
of success are wide open'and the road a :"
smooth pike, and down grade all the way w
to the man who comes to Ford county VI
now and buys land at the market price. VI
If land is the best possible investment W
all over great America, the bargains in Vt"
Ford county where land is so cheap ~, y.
ought to be gobbled up in the next sixty NJ
days. 1t is going right along, too, but '"'
not as fast as it ought to 20. six and 'D'
ten dollar land all over the county with wv
rom ten TO fifteen dollars worth of '''
wheat on it ought to recommend .hc VIZ
,road acres of Ford county to the world p'
INVESTING in Ford county Land will pAy 'p'
bigger dividends than boodlng in the W.
lissouIi Legislature, and 1t is much v''
esS strenuous life. 1t is a game where '"e
wins. Opportunity is fairly '"'
aading around with a brass band ahead INT
her and it may be long time before ""
he makes another such trip. She has WI
er pockets full Of testimonials signed Il
nd properly sworn to by those who ,n''
ave already given her the glad hand. i'"'
be is not doing "boom" turn. Her n'
isit is to be credited 10 conditions that luz
tract conservative men. The thousands ~
acres of land sold here within the Nee
asst two years have been bought by men anu
ho are not only careful Investors, but "A
en- who know the country the best, anu
rgc share of 1t by men who have been MAJ
ere from ten years upward. The out We
de purchasers have only fairly started ioil'
now, If the real condition and oppor. ~
mites are made known abroad Ford mon
unity ought to witness the establish q io'
emit of from one thousand to two SOILS
ousand new homes within her borders metl
fore next Spring. WI
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