The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-27
BUREAU SHOWS INCREASE
IN NORTH DAKOTA FARM vALUES'
Average Valuation Has Aim ost Doubled During the Past
Decade-More Than Half of Acreage Under Guilt
vation-Total Value Nearly 81, 1000, 00O,O

From the census bulletin on North
Dakota farm statistics the following
information is CLEANED. and it ought
to prove of value to citizens of the
state and particularly to the people
of C'ass county as being the nearest
statement of actual facts and condi-
lions that Il he secured. The bulle-
tin says in part:
The average value of farm land per
acre for the whole state is $3.50. In
practically all the counties in tho
average value is between $40 and
s:5 per acre. while in the eastern
third of the state tho average value
of farm lane Is generally between $25
and $50 per acre.
Between 1900 and 1910 there was
an increase Of COS per cent in the
population of the state, of 81 per cent
in the number Of farms and Of S2.9
per cent in the acrps of farm land.
The average size of the farms increas-
ed 3?.4 acres. or 1f.5 per n
Great Increase in Value.
The aggregate value of farm prop
erty has increased during the decade
S719.547.000. and is now nearly four
crease is chiefly made up Of the in
creases of 557.02S.0 900 in the value Of
land and of s66.s4s.o 900 in the value Of
buildings. There is also an increase
OF S95.671.00O in the value of farm
implements and machinery and live
stock, of which more than two-thirds
represents a gain in the value of live
stock and the remainder the increase
In the value of implements and ma
chinery. In considering the increase
OF values IN agriculture the general
increase in the prices of all COM
modities in the last ten years should
be borne in mind.
The average value of a farm with
its equipment in 1900 was 1851,
while ten years later it was $13. 100.
The average value Of land rose from
s11.10 per acre in 1909 to $3.50 in
1910.
OF the 74.360 farms in the state. So,
or only one-tenth Of one per cent,
We're reported as irrigated in 1909.
n acreage reported as irrigated In
1908 was 1O.248 acres. or less than
onc-tenth of n per rent Of the inn
proved land in farms. The area to
which enterprises existing in 1910
were capable of supplying water was
2l,917 acres. while the total acreage
included In irrigation projects. COM
pleted under way. in 1910 was 49,
173 acres.
Population. Number Of Farms, and
Farm Acreage-1S9O to 1910.
In the twenty years since 1890 the
population of the state has increased
3sS.073. or 202.2 per cent. about two
thirds of this increase occurring dur.
ing h last decade.
In 1910 there were 1880 farms in
North Dakota, OF slightly more than
two and tw%o-thirds times as many as
In 1890. The absolute Increase was
most rapid during the last decade.
when 1t averaged 1908 per year. as
compared with Liz a year during
the decade 1890-13OO.
M0rt Than Half Of Land ia Farmcd
The land surface Of North Dakota
Is approximately 44.917.12O acres and
OF this area 2s,42s.65O acres or 63.3
per cent are inclnded in. farms. or
this farm acreage. 20.455,O92 acres.
or ~ per cent. are reported as i'm.
proved land. representing ass ner
cent Of the total land area of the state.
The total acreage Of farm land in.
creased by ~12.sS4,01O acres or s2e
per cent during the last decade. and
INC acreage Of improved land by 10
sl".'72 acres or 112.I per cent. The