The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-04-29
Today's Live News Of the Sunshine State

y-crtisemcnta out and a few mcn 10
hera the rcaulilng anaemblage. The
time when We can brinR a man oul
west. nell hlm a piece % land at three
times o. twice what Il II worth an q
rational Investment basis. take all
the money he has and then dump
him on tho scrap head IL Eone. The
hvernse man locking ~ the west to-
day ~ we'll Informed. He has read
and he has compared values and he
knows about what II what. The man
from Ohio or Illinois with $4,000
20 invest win no longer buy undeYel-
oped land az t200 an acre, even IN
der the best irrigation project ON
earth; uufii he has been shown defi-
niten and nnnlly where the immo-
dinte return on HIS lnyestmeat H.
coming from and until he aees q clear
financial path ahead o. him. The
little $4,000 man cannot even begin
20 mike n start on such land, and
while there was n time when he
would Try, lose his money and be-
cofne a burden TO the community, that
time. TOO, IL gone.
Recently I have been on the gulf
coast OF Texas. Down there they
complain that their development has
slowed up that new people are com
INK IN slowly and more slowly. that
thinEs are not moving The reason
u apparent IN the prices they ask for
land down there. Better bargains can
be had right In the corn belt; and
far better bargains in the southeast
crn states. Worn put farms In the
east and even in New England can
be reclaimed ana made productive
az a far less outlay than ~ required
BY purchase IN this and many an
other western district. The settler
today IL no longer a pioneer. He viii
not become n pioneer and his family
Will not become pioneers, because
they do not have 20. II il rough
work that " unnecessary. The col
OF today demands good roads.
good schools. good social conditions.
He lodges anything that savors of
the frontier. The %colOnist Ices not
TO take what the community Of /
fcrs him. The community must
measure up 20 a new standard.
II must not be understood az qucs-
the value Of western lands
and western opportunity. They are
great today aa they ever were. and
the opportunities are almost a. nu-
mer0us But We must modify our
Of how 10 treat the colonist and
we must revise our land values. Un-
We do these i've things. and until
We get the kind of community spirit
ana cooperation which takes the
newcomer into tho game on the
ground floor, our development In 90
Ing 10 be seriously retarded or
checked. That great colOnizer and
developer. James j. HIM. was one OF
the nrSt men 10 see the danger OF In
Hated values for land into which the
west was drifting. lie warned the
northwest long ago. They would not
heed his warning. Now they must,
Tor the settlers will not come until
a new deal Is offered.
.';s-w Mexico has suffered less
from over exploitation than much Of
the rest OF the west. iut u will be
New Mcxico's while Ia consid-
cr seriously tho attitude OF the neN
the man who figures thlngs
and who knows what he " doing
he closes the deal.
u believe II II safe TO say. as re-
cards New Mexico aud the whole of
great west. that from thin time
IN the community which In going to
grow n develop rapidly and pcrmn-
nentiy is the community which IN
ready and willing TO split with the
newcomer, the colonlst, the man with
little money To invest, ON a my
lfty basis"