The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-19
SECURE NORTHWEST FARMS

hand wiiensfree lands and cheap lands
will be a thing of the past, and A man l:a1l
who wants farm will have to pay
the United States are rapidly and con-s
stantly iilcrea asing in value and the
fair price for ial Good lands all over
price for certain kinds of good land is
getting to be more ,iiiif form hat rs
to Say a certain kind of land which is
"a certain distance from railroad or
town, and with certain market adyall-s
tages is going to be worth a certain
price per acre, no difference in what
part of the country it may be located.
There are not going to be low prices
lin one section OF the country and high
prices in another section for the same.
quality }of soil, but the prices will be,
uniform In other words land values
are going to be on a stable and per-
dllailent basis and the speculative fea-
tnre will be eliminated. Farm values
will soon be established in equilibrium
and a flood of land seekers will seek
in vain for land bargains, The man
who wants good farm lands as a IN
vestment will therefore have to buy
it in the near future. Farmers in the.
central states such as Illinois, iowa
and southern Minnesota have acc1inntt- Il
lated wealth through the increase Of
value In their farm lands This rise
In price is termed the "unearned ili-
crementp and it represents a large
share of the money actually made by
central state farmers. But the chance
to accumulate such wealth will soon be.
a thing Of the past, due as we say
to the uniform adjustment OF farm
values. all over the United States.
There are several classes of people
that ought to take advantage of pres
emf opportunities to buy land First
there is the great band of foreign itli-i
migrants and the city's unemployed
who want new and free farm home.
We have room for, and can assifnilate
with profit, the right kind of irllmi-
grants. The second class of people.
that can buy land are those farmers
who have made their money in the
increased value of their farms and who
realize that prices, OF all new agricul-s
tural lands will rise in years to come:
If their farms have risen in value to-
maximum prices, they can make more
money by moving to new undeveloped
sections than they can make in inter-
est on their high priced farms. If
they are.stoo old To- move and grow up
with a new country, they can afford
to buy farms for their sons and daugh- 4
ters. They can rest assured that their
children will have the same opportu-
nifty as they themselves have had. |
They are doing the future generation
a favor. Another class of men that /
ought to buy farm lands, when they
are cheap, are the thousands of rent
ers who under present si1nfavorable
conditions OF high rent are just making
ends meet. Very few renters are do-
ing more than making a living. Cheap
and is their opportunity, and a door
Of hope for the future. Still another
class Of people that ought to buy land
now are the farmers who are not
satisfied with their present location
and who want new homes and new
f4 &ias. III
: To all these classes OF people the
northwest offers unlimited opportuni-
" and n holds OUT az welcome hand. |
The northwest has the land and needs
the people. 1t is a vast agricultural
mine that needs development.
The land seeker can secure practi-
cally any Kind of land in the northwest
that he may desire. In northern Min
nesota and Wisco consinath are tlott4
sands Of acres Of timber, or cut over
timber lands that make ideal stock
and dairy farms. In no place in the
United States can there be found bets
ter small grain, clover and other tame
grass and footScropss than in northern
Minnesota aud Wisconsin. 1t is an
IDEAL location for dairy or sheep farms.
The land seeker who wants little tinl-
Der and a little prairie can find it i'm
the Park Region, or north central part
Oh Minnesota. The man who wants al
wheat farm can find ii in the Red river
valley, the prairies Of the Dakotas, or
the fertile plains Of western Canada. !
la all these sections OF the northwest
land is low in price in proportion to its
earning capacity. Increase in value is
sure to come with settlers. 5s
In no place in the United States is
there SO much available cheap farm
land as in the great northwest. AT
this fine, we would like the privilege
Of changing Horace Greelev's sound.
advice and saying Go northwest
young men and grow up with the
country. The northwest needs farm
ers, and land seekers are short-sighted
II they overlook the opportunities Of
aslife in the northwest 55