Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-11-01

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Stock Or lnp'usnsht
Collects an Al16maIu
From Land spsakaisa

Owners Of uncuuntsd ~. 4.
Western Canada ore sSaa N ~ n,
tests against an sztla IN q thar
lands because they ~ sot undw eul.
tivation. Western Canada, NssseA ~
provincial governments, b snleayor.
ing to force the speculative lind evner
to either sell his land b Z sstier q to
cultivate It himself. At prsseot a sur.
tax Of a few cents a aas Il Levied
against all wild land, % that he ovp-
er Of land held in is natural stats.
without improvement, d CONTRIBUTING
more taxes to the government than ne
owner of a farm that b cultivated md
even improved with buildings and
stock to the value Of thousands Of Dol.
lars. In order to encourage he farm.
er TO improve and to 20 Into stock mis-.
Ing, he is not charged one cent Of taxes
on any Of his improvements, imple-
ments or stock Of any kind
AS a result Of this surtax On On.
cultivated or speculatively held hands
the owners are now trying to sell them
to actual settlers, and, In nearly every
instance. have been offering on very
easy terms Of payment usually 1 guar.
ter dowL, and the balance extending
over a term Of year, at prices much
lower than their productive value
would warrant.
A worldwide shortage In farm SUITS
has given a new value to all agricul.
tural products and the margin Of profit
today Is greater than ever In the past.
1t is true labor and implements have
increased IN price, but Il Is now pos.
slble to secure 50TT profit in farming,
and higher, Possibly not on the 500
TO 5000 m ere farm lands but on land
that can now, under existing condi.
tons, be purchased at from SIS to $50
per acre. Western Canadian farm
lands are Us productive a. any In the
world ana can be as economically
fnrmed. Wheat yields Of from 30 ID
so bushels per acre have been common
in Western Canada during the past
few years, and the farmers have beer
too busy farming oil they can 50 as t.
Sell as much wheat as possible at 500
a bushel. that they have not had tim,
to do any talking or writing. 1t i
doubtful If there ever was such al
opportunity TO make big profits Il
farming. The value Of each year
crop has been In hundreds Of case
more than the market value Of th
land 1t was grown on. 1t Is ur
reasonable to suppose such q cor
dltion will last long, as the land no,
being forced onto the market BY SUI
tax on speculative owners will 500
! become absorbed by those who ha,
learned Of these highly proatab
wheat lands. The news Is spreadlI
gradually throughout the high price
land districts in the United State
where there Is q renewed awakenil
to the realization that the maxlmu
profit In farming Is not being obtain
when it Is possible to secure III
forty to seventy per cent return on I
Investment In Western Canada. Ma
who have been planning to visit We
ern Canada for the purpose Of persc
ally investigating conditions are lea
Ing this mouth, when the good wealth
Gun be enjoyed. As threshlng opel
lions and marketing Of grain Is und
way, no better time could be select
to secure first hand and reliable inf
nation from the farmers thenlselV'
The winter months afford ample III
for completing moving arrangement
to allow the settler to take up re
dence III early spring, so as 70
something done next year and 70 ma
a start on the big md profitable fur
Ing operations In Western Canaoa'
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