The Lamar register., 1907-10-30
COLORADO LAND WILL NEVER BE
so CHEAP AGAIN, is THE
GENERAL OPINION.
IS SAFE INVESTMENT
THE WEST MUST FEED THE
EAST AND FURNISH BREAD
STUFF FOR WORLD.


mercial Association, said:
No one, / think. will dispute the
statement that Colorado lands are
never going to be any cheaper than
they are at the present time. No one,
either, l think, will deny that in all
probability Colorado lands will con
tInue to increase in value from day to
Cay. from month to month, and from
year to year. AS a matter of fact, land
values all over the state are on the in
crease. This increase is n healthy
growth. 1t is not the result of boom
1t is the result OF natural conditions.
Colorado is growing and growing faster
than most people have any idea Of
Colorado not only Is growing in popula
ton. but in every other way. Just as
night follows day SO must all lines of
industry follow In the wake of a rap
idly growing population. Colorado's
mining industry was never in better
shape than 1t is at the present day;
Colorado's manufacturing industries
are growing with every passing day;
Colorado live stock interests, always
great, and always to be great, are
growing, and Colorado is taking her
place as the greatest of all agricul-
tural states in the Union.
Is there any wonder, then, for the
| increase in the value of Colorado lands
that is going on? few specific In
stances gathered at random from diff
ferent sections of the state will sufiice
| to illustrate the point.
William Richmond this week sold
nineteen acres OF fruit land east of
Grand Junction to II. w. Patten for
S15,6sO This is little over $S25 per
acre. A pretty fair price for agrlcul-
tural land. is 1t not? Yet the pur-
chaser thinks he secured bargain. and
| there is no reason to believe otherwise.
From his nineteen acres of fruit he
will make very nice investment on
his money. And yet a few years ago.
before water was put on the land and
the orchard was planted, this land was
conside red good for but little. IL any
thing.
One days record OF transactions in
the office of the clerk OF Mesa county
aggregated $30,3sO. There were but
four deeds recorded al that. Doesn't
this one little fact show as well as any,
thing the ever increasing value or land
In that section of the state?
Two years ago X. A. Lambert pur-
chased a section of land in the East
Fleming precinct of Logan county. He
paid $4,000 for it. A few days ago he
refused $4,000 for the land A clear
gain OF $4,000 In two years and good
living made OFF the land at that.
Charles Smith of Jersey, in Weld
county, last week sold his eighty-acre
farm for 10000 cash. He retained this
years crop. which he values at $4,000.
Four years ago he bought this property
for 81, 800. His crop this year is worth
more than the original price of the
land, to say nothing OF his living The
$4,000 that he now has In his inside
pocket is practically all clear gain.
Harvey Miller bought farm near
lie Roy a year ago for 81, 800. Last
week he sold it to Holyolse man for
s2.7O0, a rise of over fifty per cent. in
value in year.
And so 1t goes all over the state. The
lesson? Buy land now.
Some transactions OF considerable
magnitude have been noted during the
week just closed in lands outside OF
Denver. The purchase by ID. o. Mo
berly of Ault and syndicate OF Dem
yer men Of 10000 acres lying between
Limon and Hugo and Union Pacific
railway for 100000 was perhaps the
biggest recorded during the week. In
| cluded in the purchase Is reservoir
with 5000 acre-feet of water in 1t. Inc
company will build Il new dam and Will
increase the size OF the reservoir ana
will then put the property On the mar
ket. About 5000 acres will be irri-
gated and 1000 acres devoted to dry
farming. =,
n Bert Cave bought from l.. NJ
Pr,ddy of Pierce 1876 lots In the town
site of Pierce for $4,000. Pierce has
grown within the last few months from
an insignificant little railway siding to
n town OF considerable Importance. The
extension of Colorado's great irrigation
system is responsible for the growth.
The new townsite OF Silt on the west
ern slope was laid out last week SILT
is in the center of a rich country
where fruit will grow to perfection and
where all sorts of crops VIII DO ex-
ceedipgly well. Land in the vicinity 10
bringing from $50 to 800 per acre al
the present time. but 1t Is sure to ad'
vance within five years to price that
will measure up with other fruit lands
of the slope.
Tho old Pawnee ranch in Logan
county which for a score OF years was
one of the biggest and best known
ranches in eastern Colorado, has been
sold to two Iowa men. There were
400 acres and all of the Unsold lots
OF Mcrino included IN the purchase
The price paid for the property was
about 800, 900. Surveyors are now at
work on the property dividing 1t up
into forty-acre tracts. New bitches will
be run wherever needed and many OF
the lots of Merino will be improved
also. Sixty families are expected to
come at once from Iowa to settle on
the land and 100 more families are ex-
pected within year. The new owners
say that within a year they will have
a family on every forty acres in the
tract. These hustling Iowans with
push and capital are the sort Of men
who are making Colorado bigger and
better.
A. w. Hall, who recently sold his
rnnch near Num-, which he bought few
years ago for practically nothing. for
$50 an acre, bought $50 acres Of land
near Carr, in Weld county. for $1,000.
Land in that section of the state is get
ting scarce, there being no government
or railroad land to be found within the
eight-mile limit.
A number of Denver aldermen.
among them being Hyder. Maloney and