The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-13

OF the state he represented and that
if you would give him a few trading
stamps and bull pup he would give
you $50 acres and possibly might
throw in forty more acres to show
that he was a good fellow?
mot much, he didn't He adver-
tise what could be made on the land,
how much an acre would be reason
able yield and what the profits should
net the farmer or fruit grower and
wound up his ad, by saying that if
any one was interested and would
call and see him he would quote pri-
ces. And when one called he told
them that for a short time the prices
were only $3.50 per acre, and he ac-
cented the only; and at the same time
admitted that one could not hope to
get crop returns inside of five years.
THAT man sold twenty-six pieces
of land here in less than three weeks.
Let me try another illustration.
You know that some years ago some
men made money by selling gold
bricks Let us imagine that one of
them came to your Office some morn
ing and opened up his proposition
about like this: Good morning, Mr..
Brown. I called to see you in order
to interest you in an exceedingly
good proposition. l have pushcart
standing down on the sidewalk, and
in it l have IS or 100 gold bricks that
I would like to sell you, and my ad-
wise to you is to hurry and buy some
of them, as there is sure to be a big
demand for them, as l am offering
such great inducements Why, for
short time I will let you have them
at the rate of $40 per dozen, and you
will surely acknowledge that such
terms can't be beat for gold bricks.
well, about that time you will
break in and tell him that the garb-
age can is in the rear of the building,
and that there is the best place for
his WORTHLESS stuff.
'.Oh, nix on that method! More
likely he would have begun by tel
ling you that he had one gold brick,
and that it was so long and so thick,
and that it weighed so much, and
that every particle of it was of the
finest gold, and that it was worth so
much money, and after you had be-
gun to feel that you just had to have
that brick, he would quietly have told
you what inducements he had to
offer.
Now, if that method will sell a
worthless gold brick, won't the same
method sell land that can be made to
produce as many dollars and cents
per acre as any land on the face of
the earth?
I'VE have stood still and listened
to Canada tell what their land could
produce and what profits could rea-
sonably be expected from an acre of
we'll titled soil. and we have watched
our American citizens hike to Can
ada
The west has woke up. They
will run an irrigation ditch through
a patch of sand, and then every one
will begin telling what they can
raise on it, and the people will rush
in and buy the land at $3.50 per acre
-1duu CudC W LII uSfSI sec Iuc udy
it can produce as much per acre as
we can right here in Minnesota with
out any irrigation.
I'VE have watched the South start
in to telling what can be made on
their lands, admitting that at the
present time the principal crop is
crocodiles, centipedes and malaria
but that with proper cultivation the
land will yield enormous returns
$1,000 per acre every year, at the
present prices of produce, and know
that the climate can not be beaten
for healthfulness, and you know the
same thing
sWhy don't l advertise it as il
should be advertised? Well, l am
sorry to have to admit it, but I am
shy on currency. It takes money
to advertise But if every real estate
man and every other person interest.