The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-01-03
IOWA LAND HITS
200 DOLLAR MARK
Professor Curtiss Says That in Ten
Years Iowa Land Will Sell at
$500 to $500. Per Acre
NOW AVERAGES $s2.5s AN ACRE
Farm Near OdeboIt Sells for 5000 Per
Acre-PeopIe Should Buy Iowa
Land As Investment.
(Odebolt Chronicle.)

(Odebolt Chronicle.)
Two hundred dollar an acre land i:
at last reality in this neck of the
weeds. Within the past few days the
60-acre tract belonging to the Peter
L. Larson estate, and joining the
townsite on the east, was sold to
Martha and Irwin Turner for an even
$4,000. The deal was made by r. w
Sayre. While this is the first sale OF
farm tract for this price per acre
1t is altogether likely that an offer
of that sum for any one of several
farms in this township would be turn
ed down instantly The fact of the
matter is that much of the best farm
ing land is not on the market and
could not be bought at any price. Be-
yond question the ruling price for
lands that will be placed on the mar
ket will be close to 5000 an acre after
another good crop-and this soil is
cheap at that figure.
In this connection let us quote from
few remarks recently made on this
subject by Prof. c. F.. Curtiss, of the
Iowa State college at Ames, who is
one of the recognized authorities of
the country. Professor Curtiss says:
IF Iowa people will invest all of
their money in Iowa for the next ten
years the farm lands of the state will
be worm from $500 to $4O0 an acre
and the population OF the state will
double"
Commenting further the professor
speaks enthusiastically of the outlook
for Iowa under the intensified farm
ing"r idea. He quotes statistics to
show the rapid advance made by the
farmers of the state in the last ten
years and adds that the limit of pro-
ductiveness of the soil has not been
reached.
In commenting upon the rapid ad-
vance in the price of Iowa farm lands,
Professor Curtiss says the advance
was inevitable, and good talking
point for residents of Iowa. PROBES
sor Curtis warns the farmers to stay
away from states whose land values
are not increasing. He says the in.
crease in value of land is the best
sign of prosperity and good place
to make an investment.
The speaker takes to task the grea>
number of people who have left Iowa
for cheap lands in other communities,
and adds that most of them wish now
they had remained in Iowa, or could
get back for what it cost them to get
out.
The following regarding Iowa land
values is going the rounds of the
press, The valuation is too low ii
anything. The average value per acre
of farm land for Iowa is $82.58. In
twenty-five counties, comprising a
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state, belt running north and south
near the western border, and four
counties in the southeastern part of
the state, the value ranges between
800 and $125 per acre. The value is
between SIS and $100 an acre in the
majority of the remaining counties,
including practically all of those in
the central and western parts of the
state, with the exception OF those just
mentioned in which the value is be-
tween $1C0 and 1925, and a number
of counties in the southeastern part
of the state. In most of the counties
In the two northern tiers, about half
the counties in the two southern tiers,
and most of the counties in the north
eastern corner of the state the value
is between $50 and SIS per acre. In
only three counties does the average
of farm land fall below $50 per acre.