The Glenwood post., 1910-12-24
A. J. DICKSON, Editer and Proprietor
Saturday, December "a, 1910.
PRAISE MORE FRUIT AND LESS
LAND

editor of the Emporia Gazette advised
the farmers of Kansas to "quit raising
hell and start to raising corn
The farmers of Kansas took Whites
advice. cut off their chin whiskers.
face about, quit complaining and
preaching populism and started to work.
The leaven soon began to work; the
farmers who had for the past few years
been saturated with populism and pes
simism-about the same thing-caught
a glimpse of the sun shine of oppor-
tunity. They started to raising corn
and wheat and calves and hogs until
now they are reveling in prosperity,
riding around in automobiles and. in
eidentally, voting the republican ticket
every time they get a chance.
Editor Louis Meyers of the Clifton
Success, who combines with his edi-
torial duties the work falling upon
the shoulders of the secretary of the
Mesa Business Association published
in the last issue of the Success a few
remarks anent the land sueculator in
the Grand Valley and advises the ranch
owners of the Valley to start raising
more fruit and less land.
While the Post believes that con
sidering productiveness and the glor-
ious climatic conditions and the JOY of
living in this state. Colorado lands are
among the most valuable in the whole
world and yet we feel that some Of
our land owners have been and are yet
standing in their own light by the verv
high prices they have placed on Colo
RADIO lands and there is no use denying
that the county has been greatly da-
mayed by the stress which has been
placed on some of the sales of choice
fruit lands at what fasteners consider
fabulous prices.
Perhaps these extra high priced lands
were worth the big money they brought
but there is great danger that in quot
ing these extraordinary prices we do
the county great harm by overlooking
the fact that great deal of excellent
land can yet be bought at reasonable
fgure-at a figure which is amply JUS
tilted by the productive power of such
lands and yet the Post believes there
is tendency by those having lands
for sale to quote prices which many
would be purchasers will consider pro
hibitive.
Mr.. Meyers suggests that we stop
raising land and raise more fruit and
his editorial on the subject is as fol.
lows:
"Let's quit raising land and start
in raising fruit
1.-The one trouble with the Grand
Valley Is the presence of such large
proportion of spectators. Many of
the people living in the valley came
here during the boom of a few years
ago. when they saw friends or rela
tives making thousands of dollars in
single week. They were successful
as land spectators. We do not say
that the land was not worth every
cent which had been paid for it, but
it imbued a lot of people with the
idea of making easy money
"They quit trying to raise fruit and
started on a hunt for cheap fruit tracts
which they hoped to unload on the un-
wary at fancy prices. Some of them
made fortune here, and got away
before the craze of speculation ended.
They went to Idaho where they hoped
to repeat their success in the Grand
Valley. They loaded up with cheap
real estate, which they expected to
develop as did the land hereabouts,
and-they have the land yet. Now
they are drifting back to the Grand
Valley.
"others loaded up with land at
rather extravagant prices and-they
are still carrying the load
"Now it is time to stop this non
sense. For two or three years past
more attention has been paid to the
effort to revive the land boom than
to the fruit raising industry itself.
AS long as men could make FIVE to
fifty thousand dollars in a single year
by land speculation they didn't care
very much whether they had fruit
crop or not. And most of these spc-
'ulative gentlemen generally ended
among the failures at the close of the
,rop year.
"Now there ought to be and will be
, healthy movement of real estate in |
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