Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-06-11
LITTLE
BOOKLET ON LANDS
Bureau Of immigration in Re-
ceipt of Pamphlet Which
Gives Some Sensible Facts
About Prices and Products

plain Talk to Home Builders" is
the title of q little volume which has
been received by the secretary of The
bureau of immigration, II. Il. Hen
ing. The booklet contains so many
excellent points on the purchasing of
high priced lands far away from home
Thai it should be read with interest
by all prospective buyers of home
steads. Some of the booklets most
useful hints are as follows:
To one who has travelled through
the northwest and has seen the won
derful progress being made in WASH
ington ana oregon and the steady
influx of immigration in spite Of the
great distances covered To get there,
the very high prices of land and the
remoteness from outside markets. it
is an u~nceasing source of wonder that
people will not seek opportunity near
er home.
Distance Lends Enchanment.
lei Dorado is always far away. Whom
in Chicago, Seattle is the land Of
promise. But when in Wenatchee,
Washington, a little, struggling, dusty.
implanted, unkept town, on the Column
bia river, where they have been too
busy picking premium apples 10 build
comfortable homes one is asked $4,000
per acre for on apple orchard just
beginning to bear and h owner loses
a cash sale at that figure rather than
throw in a second hand automobile
one. especially ii he has travelled much
in these United States. is tempted to
doubt the wisdom of putting his all
into land at high figures, where living
is hard and winters are cold and he
begins mentally to AXE stock of WhAt
he has seen and to figure what ae
must do per acre on land at this valu-
alton to have an even break with 500
land nearer home.
Where is the Gold?
Eight hundred to twelve hundred
per acre sounds q great big money re-
turn; but YOU may feel certain that
fun value in money, brains and WORK
has first been expended to earn It.
When you capitalize with your hard
earned dollars the results of the 9TH
or fellows work you have likely pur-
chased an illusivc rainbow. The bag
Of gold was there but the other fell
low took it with him n yours along
with i.
Homes Nearer Markets.
Wenatchoc is three days from Dom
yer, four days from Chicago. There
are many places nearer by half To
the main markets Of the country
where irrigated land can be purchase
ed even by those of moderate means
and little experience with every prom
Use of success for the venture. These
places are passed oVer in the rush
toward FL Dorado. The prices ask
ed for the land will not justify eX-
| pensive advertising and immigration
| work. Their merits are ~"unhonored
and unsung' but none the less does IL
seem that here is 10 be found the
best opportunity for the great mass OF
"a 10. ,.a trtrrffaF nv naHaG-
! sitv or choice hack to the land"
| From these places the speculative
glitter is absent. one is not likely 10
huy today and sell at 100 per cent
profit tomorrow. The products Of the
land under steady, intelligent labor
| and frugal management must be the
! chief source Of future profit. But,
| though more slow. the increase of
land values will be more sure. The
risk Of loss will be less. The comfort
| Of living viii be more, the expense OF
| living viii be less.
out of many such unpretentlous,
| safe localities the following IS select
cd for detailed description:
Sixty to One!
Three thousand dollar land costs 50
times as much as $50 land ana must
I earn 80 times rs much to he an egu-
ally good investment. WEI it lie I
year in and ear out? ara not me
: chances many times aganst ms.
Which land is more like'v 80 inahe
the larger proportional inc'c''s' Deb
value in the future
S1.5OO Per Amman.
J Fifty Dcr cent OF S3.Voe D. Nl..'n-
How many acres of apple orchard In
Washington or anywhere else wlll pre-
duce gross $500 per zen. ftiiy
per cent of S5o is Se5. Almost any
old farm crop viii produce .htt any
where. The average expense OF
producing and marketing a erop OF APP