Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-16
Lands the Thing.

The land boom of 1903 is on in
full blast and bids fair to be as siren
uous as the average-through not as
wild as last year. Hundreds OF
agents are out working for the
various sections where homes are
still to be had at a figure. Some
propositions are good and some bad.
Every young man who possibly can
should acquire piece of land. 1t
will not be many years till all the
lands are settled up and selling at
stiff prices. 1t is bound to be So.
The old countries are pouring
people into our borders. Immigra-
tion figures for the fiscal year 1908
seem likely to surpass those Of any
proceeding year except 1882. The
figures of the bureau of immigration
show that the total immigration into
the United States for the nine
months ending with March 1908
was 494425, against 3705575 for the
corresponding months of last year.
This makes it almost certain that the
total immigration into the United
States for the fiscal year which ends
sixty days hence will exceed that Of
any preceding year except 1882 in
which the total was 1892. Every
foot of land in this country will one
day be occupied and made to pro-
,duce something useful and valuable
in the mercantile world 1t is folly
to say that lands not now tillable
are worthless. The same was once
said of millions of acres which now
form the garden spot of the world.
iSkeptics aver that lands now being
grazed and subject to homestead
entry are not worth having. They
are unwise. Any land that has
soil enough to raise grass will in
twenty years be worth as many
dollars an acre and lots of it twice
that amount. And it will be fenced
up and farmed or grazed. People
are crowding into the country The
tillable land will all soon be under
the pillow. The cattlemen will be
pushed to the prairie tracts where
only grass will now grow. In time
irrigation or change of climate due
10 civilization will crowd them to
the rough lands that cannot be
farmed. The sands wastes and arid
regions will be irrigated. In some
way every foot of land will be made
to blossom as the rose. The lands
now scoffed at and rejected at a
few dollars an acre will be fine
farms. 1t will come. The writer
has no land to sell but believes
many a poor man is making a grave
mistake by not getting hold of a
piece of land while there is some
left at a low price. An exchange
very truthfully says that the only
business that can stand the test OF
time and circumstances is the
owning of free and clear farm.
A man may work at manufacturing
half his lifetime, and suddenly a bet
ter invention may shut up his
works. A man may spend his life
as a merchant, local misfortune be-
You'd his control may put him
through the bankruptcy court. A
man may work as an employe OF a
business half his lifetime and be a
competent faithful servant to his
employer and suddenly he is fired
because his company has consoli-
dated with another. The owner Of
a clear farm is unassailable. He
may not have all the luxuries of
life but he is dead sure TO obtain the
necessaries and he cannot be dis
charged or ruined. If you are a
poor man of family or an idle young
man take a FOOLS advice and grasp
your present opportunity to get a
home.