Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1916-05-12
A LAND PROBLEM AHEAD
(FRoM THE PEORIA JouaNAL.)

Tho Nebraska State Journal calls at.
tentlon 10 the fact that Uncle Sans
opening OF a 4.000-acre tract In the
North Platte irrigation district for set.
Element practically winds mp the free
land distribution" OF the nation. II
adds.
Free or cheap land has been
the American safety valve. A
population straining for self-bet-
termcnt has had It's own remedy
10 90 west and grow up with the
country. with the government
reduced 10 advertising nm opening
OF fortythree farms. the safety
valve may be considered forever
closed. The expansive energy for.
merry exorted outward, must here.
after work itself out intensivoly.
Increasing land speculation, with
rapidly rising prices Of land and
proportionately increasing dissut.
isiaction among the lundless would
seem inevitable. The tone OF our
politics and the Intensity OF our
social problems cannot hut he vi.
tally changed under the strain of
dealing internally with a social
pressure which hitherto has had
the wilderness to vent itself upon.
Land hunger will soon become a
reality in this rapidly growing country
and the constant pressure of popula.
tion, increasingly higher than the ratio
OF production, Is bound to bring us
face 10 face with economic problems
that we have heretofore considered re-
mote. The far.slghtcd statesman and
publlcist must devote his thought
earnestly to the consideration OF these
questions II we are to escape the ex.
tremes which curse the older nations
Of the world"
In the above will be found one Of
the reasons that the Canadian Govern.
ment is Offering 100 acres of land free
TO the actual settler. There IL no
dearth of homesteads of this size. and
the land is OF the highest quality, be.
Ing such as produces yields OF from 30
TO 60 bushels OF wheat per acre, while
oats run from fifty to over hundred
bushels per acre. II Is not only n mat.
ter of free grants, but In Western Can.
ada arc also TO be had other lands at
prices ranging from $l2 to $50 per
acre. the difference In price being
largely a matter of location and dis
tanoa from railway, II one takes into
consideration the scarcity of free
grant lands In the United States II is
not difficult TO understand why there
has been most material advances In
the price OF farm lands.
A few years ago, land hat o sells
for two hundred dollars an acre III
Iowa, could have been bought for sew
enty.tive dollars an acre or less. The
increased price is warranted by the
Increased value OF the product raised
on these farms. The lands that today
can be had In Western Canada at the
low prices quoted will IN n less time
than that taken for the Iowa lands to
increase, have Il proportionate In,
crease. In Nebraska tho lands that
sold for sixteen to twenty dollars pei
acre seven years ago, find a market al
one hundred and seventy.iive dollars
an acre, for the same reason given foi
the increase In Iowa lands. Values
In these two States, as well as In 9th.
ers that might be mentioned, show
that Western Canada lands are goini
at n song at their present prices, In
many cases In Western Canada today
there are American settlers, who real
iae this, and are placing a value Of
sixty and seventy dollars an acre OF
their improved farms, but would sell
only because they a purchase un
improved land at such a low price that
IN another few years they would have
equally ms good farms ms they left OF
such az their friends have in the Unit
ed States.
The worth OF the crops grown In
Western Canada is OF higher valu,
than those of the States named. so VIII,
should the land not be worth fully as
much. Any Canadian Government
Agent will be glad to give you infor
nation as to homestead lands or where
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