Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-02-28

As seen by a former Audubon County
Lady, who resides there. Read
the many Bargains. Free
booklet at the Journal
Office.
Why Land is Cheap in Virginia
81. 81; Y =; I. j e. p; q;


10 Of interest to the western and north
ern hOmeseekers, we will ask why is
anything cheap when only small
portion of 1t is used, and to come
briefly to the point, we make the as
sertion and can prove it, that where
our land has received intensified cul.
tivation, or where stock is raised and
/, the products to reasonable extent
fed and thus returned to the soil: the
soil Is NOT CHEAP.
We will ask our Western and Nor
thern farmer to Imagine q condition
In his home state which in four years
would remove the most energetic men
young and old; condition that
would destroy fences, barns and kill
or confiscate the horses and make the
property in the farmers hands, tho
thousands of dollars, absolutely worth
less. A glance at your map and your
history shows Virginia as the terri
tory in which these destroying forces
were felt most keenly during the war.
We then find the old land owners
renting out their estates to men who
were accustomed to free labor and
naturally fell into shiftless mode Of
farming instead of exercising that en-
ergy which is necessary to success in
any calling. On the other hand we
find that hundreds of these tenants
who adopted practical methods, now
own comfortable homes. Imagine
several thousand acres of land owned
( by q family of children, too often their
I widowed mother educating them for
professional and mercantile life which
was more congenial for children who
had always been surrounded by SER
wants. We find these large tracts of
land now being divided up Where
fields have suffered from single crop
ping, our mild climate permits rapid
soil to it's former productiveness.
While these large uncultivated es.
tates have given US a supply of land
rather the reluctance of old land
owners to divide up their property
originally created this condition, our
state officials tell US that two or three
Thousand farms have been sold to out
siders each year for several years and
the steadily increasing values are sub
: stantial evidence of the success of the
new comers.
We can give combination answer
of what our land will produce, that is
Q great deaf of it is producing as much
per acre as the best Western land and
yet when we compare market reports
we see corn selling in the West at
30c when it is bringing soc here and
by private sale 60c. Our state off,
,cials will possibly surprise you with
figures as to the number of export
cattle that are taken direct from our
pastures without going to the feed
pen. An export steer must have
weight. We have the soil, the eli
mate, the health and the markets.
.We want more practical energetic
farmers and respectfully invite you to
invest and share the good results
which are absolutely sure to come
from this combination.
The following clipping from a
South Dakota paper may be of inter
estsin connection with the above:
.sVirginia has been restoring herself
in recent years to something of the
proud old place that, as Mother of
States, she held before the war, but
there are great possibilities yet unde-
veloped. There will be an agricultur-
al revival in the near future that will
bring Western farmers from their 800
an acre lands to realize that they
ought to emigrate eastward, rather
than to Canada. They can get good
lands In these Eastern States cheaper
than they dream, with advantage of
markets, tidewater transportation,
ETC., that would be an attraction ii
only the rich Western farmers could
be made to understand. 1t is up to
Virginia to advertise these things In
connection with the exposition. If
she makes the most of it we will see a
Ngrest Virginia revival that will make
the tricentenial homecoming to old
jamestown scarcely less notable than
i was its first settlen ent.'
Yours Very Truly,
n MRS. j. A. CROW.
Here are few more Virginia farms
(which can be bought cheap:
No. sos. 4I6A A. at $Io. Ahghly improved
J 4 farm with large ten room house in good res
h palr; good barns and all outbuiIdings in good
a I|S(epair, we'll fenced, large orchard, consider
HiS lble timber. About two miles to stores,