The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-08-14

There are n great number Of farmers
In Kansas, good old droughty Kansas,
who have made a fortune in Kansas
lands that when acquired were worth
from n dollar To three dollars an acre,
lands that after cultivation and civil
~iyation were started were covered
with heavy mortgages, lands tina; were
practically owned by the money lend
ers, that today grow enough wheat to
make the owner independent with u
surplus that he is going To inves, some.
where. What is he likely to put that
money inf Is he going into the mer.
camille businessi 10 he is not going
into merchandise nor banking, he il
going 10 put II int the particular
thing that has made him rich, land.
Where is he going 10 find the land at
q price where he thinks he can afford
to wait for Development II is not
to be had any more in Kansas. lie II
use to the dry, he had that at home
FOR several years and yet Is not
unacquainted with the southwest
wind. file is close TO New Mexico AMI
knows more Of this climate than the
major portion of the inhabitants that
have settled on our lands today. lilo
has grown a bumper wheat crop this
year, his bank account is full
from lands that ten years ago starved
the prairie dogs aud over which the
southwest winds blew aud parched the
fields 10 that hunger threatened, he
has stayed with it until he has won out
and his land has increased in value un.
Ill he is king of broad acres aud in.
spired with a spirit If investment for
the benefit of his boy aud his girl whO
are going TO need a home when they
are grown up and where they eat ac.
cuuulate n competence after he pass
80 over the dark river to that bourne
from whence, etc. lie il coming 10
the Southwest, New Mexico is at his
door, he understands the difficulties Of
settling "A new country, that the oppor
tunity is there for the fellow who II
able to take advantage Of il. lie is
coming, and the time that he intends
to begin investing in northeast New
Mexico il here. he will be here this fall.
Marx the word, he is coming this fall
aud winter when his presence on the
Kansas farm IL not absolutely essential,
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when the wheat is in the ~grainary and
the alfalfa il in the stack aud in the
barn, he is going 10 begin buying New
Mexico lands this winter. lie is not
going 10 he fussy about what the coun
try is doing, what the farmer who u
unused 10 a new country il doing, he
il going 10 pick mp 100 and 800 where
ever he can fnd IL suitably located.
lie will return to his home in Kansas
and go right ahead making more money
until such "a time ~ he or his children
need 10 begin TO improve il, and in
the meantime he has the assurance that
when he gets 10 consider it an asset
that il has increased 10 value anywhere
from 30 to 100 per cent. People must
have homes. Land all over the world
Is increasing in value NJ an alarming
rate, a thinking man can not he found
who will not KRFee that land is furnish
ing the best and safest investment thR,
can he made, and while we may be pes
simistie and disposed to conjecture,
the investor in mother earth is going
Ia grow to the position Of commanding
the human race as he sees 1T. These
are facts that il the editor Of this pu
per lives To see his three score and ten
will see fully realized, aud he is going
20 take advantage Of an much Of Il
rs the god Of fortune will permit. IL
Is the fellow who stays that counts the
coin In the end He stands the hard
ships, fights the way to better govern.
ment, better schools, better society aud
better reeompense for the energy he
expends In the development Of the
country. The editor has stuck IL out
for seventeen years, and we are going
to try II along with the boys that put
the spare dollars into New Mexico lands
for seventeen more.