Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-05
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Among the concrete instances cited by
| Mr. Hartford is that of the Wenatchee
valley, State of washington, land sold
in 1900 at $3.50 per acre, and was not
| in demand even at that low figure.
| There We're but $50 people IN the entire
| valley, One city alone now has a popu
| lation OF about 10000 and land is firm
| ~ held at from S700 to $1,000 per acre,
according to the age of the orchards,
amounts stated because it returns a
| good rate of interest on the Investment
and few care to dispose of their hold
| ings.
AT the national apple show, held in
Spokane in December, 1905, a single car
load sold for $1,000 From the locality
in which the fruit was grown some
facts relative to the value of several
different crops were gathered. One-half
acre, on which were sixty apple trees,
| seven, years old, produced 600 boxes Of
apples, which sold for slt2o0 One-half
acre on which We're fifty-four pear trees
produced $50 boxes, which sold for
$3.50, Oneiifth of an acre, with TWEEN
tS cherry trees, produced $3.50 worth of
fruit. One and onc-fourtll acres set to
grapes brought the owner $3.50. Two
and one -half acres of onions sold for
S1,o4b Sixty acres of hwy sold for SIS, i20.
0no-half acre Of peach trees brought
$40. Three acres of potatoes yielded
SLIDE An orchard sold last year for
$3.50 per acre, tic owner reserving the
seasons crop.
An estimate is made as TO the chance
Of the average man to become indepen-
dent The plain, ordinary citizen, VINO
by the exercise of conservatism and the
possession of good habits, has saved
some money. at length as the years go
by reaches ii point where he may
make, an investment. This is an era
in his life history to which he WIN look
back with either satisfaction or regret,
according to the direction in which his
Judgment leads him. If he fails to dis
Germ not the power that lies In his uc-
scurnulated means, he valves the op-5
portunity for achieving financial in
dependence and remains, in a financial
sense, a mediocre among his fellows.
If this man is wise, Mr.. Hartford con-
cludes he will see in irrigated lands
the opportunity to invest where cer-9
5tainty OF results is assured For such
a man, he thinks, there now is open
the dior that leads to present comfort
and ultimate wealth. But not for long
will the opportunity remain. Thou
sands are taking advantage OF the
chance and are removing TO these faN-
ored localities, and Mr. Hartford is con
fident that none win regretthe STEP for
he believes that success stands ready TO
welcome them and to assure prosperity.
"a may all be as the writer whom we
have just quoted, so forcefully argues 4
We5trust that Westerners are awake to 4
the situation 1t seems to us that every 4
working man who invests. any savings
should secure some Of the public land.
The opportunities to acquire land re-f
call the words of a great economist:
e Gibraltar. the worlds grandest type
of impregnable selidity, towers where
Europe meets the Mediterranean and
casts its gigantic shadows across the
straits upon the sands of Africa. For
ages the waves have beat harmlessly
upon its base, uselessly the elements
have expended their rage upon its gran
lite form, but 1t remains mute exam
pie of indestructibility And so with
an Investment in productive real estate.
GtncIkE a bond may herorf1e wort n
less in a day; the assets of a corpora
ton may be sauandered by a dishon-
est official; observation-disclosures that may
be made may fade away like mist be-
fore the rising sun, but in a tract Of
rich and productive land there is
permanency which nothing but a uni
'versal cataclysm can destroy.