The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-07
5000 AN ACRE IN 1919
Prediction Of Conservative Men Is That Corr,
Lands VIII CONTINUE 10 Raise n VaIue.

will continue to rise in value, slowly.
but surely for the next ten years.
This statement is based upon no ex-
cited Imagination of land "boomerss'.
but is the claim and deliberate Judge.
ment of men who have weighed ali
the conditions and looked at all the
contingencies, as far as human wisdom
enables this to be done.
The rise of the next ten years will
be just as positive and rapid as that,
of the last ten years. The chief
observable difference, which is even
now beginning to be apparent, is that
the element of luck which has here
tofore been controlling element in
lots of Iowa farming, will disappear
to q large extent This result will be
accomplished by adequate thing.
Land perfectly tiled is practically sure
to raise fair crop, no matter what
the weather conditions are. The con-
ditions of the present year prove the
truth of this condition.
Commenting on land values, the
Cedar Rapids Republican recently
said. 1.-THE average price of Tama
ounty lands, judging from recent,
sales, is now Sl25 per acre. Many
farms in that county were even held at
$3.50 to $l75 per acre. These prices
seem a little surprising to some of the
papers in southern Iowa, where prices
lands in that part of the State that can
be had at around $50 an acre. The
lands of the southern part of the State
are not as uniformity desirable as the.
northern part of the State. Nor can
it be said that the southern Iowa peo-
pie have been as enterprising as the
northern Iowa people. There has
been more booming in northern Iowa
Iii is Younger in settlement and also
younger in enthusiasm.
Some day, somehow, the people OF
Iowa will wake up and find that Iowa
lands are worth 5000 an acre. That's
\ what lands in Illinois are worth now,
and Illinois has no better lands than
Iowa. 1t is all a matter of the people
making up their minds. Some years
ago we recall wiseacre speaking
about land values--this was during the
| Spanish American war. There was
piece OF land offered in northern Iowa
for less than S25 an acre. He said the
time was then past for investing in
Iowa lands. He had bought some at
about $40 an acre, and that was the
time to get in. He said that S25 land
might in the next ten years hover
around $50, but the rise would be con-
sumed in taxes, and so on. He was.
in his day wise man and he reasoned
very carefully. But he did not know
and he did not realize the future posi-
bilities of Iowa. The land that he said
was not worth buying at $25 has since
risen to three and three and q half
times that value, and it is not for sale
even for those prices.''
Speaking of lands in northwestern
Iowa, the Akron Tribune says: There
have recently been some sales of Ply
mouth county farm land In this vicinity
which savors much of s'frenzied
finance, so far as rich profits are con-
cerned. Peter Blum sold q quarter sec
ton east of town to man from Man
ming, Iowa, for $40 per acre, having
bought it few years ago for SIS: M.
A. Agnes sold the Stewart half section
farm, q few miles southeast of here, to
Emel Johnson for 500 an acre, which
he paid $50 for few months ago; 7.
z Burnight, through the agency of
Johnson & Yeaton. sold the quarter
south of the stone house farm, south
OF town, to DR.. Burrows, of Kiron,
Iowa, for S85 per acre, he bought it
about month ago for S62 SO. Bigger
and quicker profits on farm land could
be difficult to find anywhere, and the
prices continue to SOAR"