The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-06-20
INCREASE IN WESTERN
CANADA LAND VALUES
But Forty and Fifty Bushels Of
Wheat to the Acre.

During the pnst year there has been
n greater demand for farm lands In
Western Canada than for u number OF
years past. The demand IL for good
farm lands improved or unimproyed.
And ut nm Increase Of from ten to If
teen dollars an acre more thnn the
same lands could be had for u couple
of years ago.
The rise In the price Of every kind
or produce grown IN these Western
lands, In sornc cases to double and In
others to treble the price prevailing be.
fore 1914, have attracted and are at-
tracing In eyer-lncreasing proportions
the men who are anxious to invest
their money, and apply their energies
In the production Of wheat for which
the allied nations are calling with
voices which grow louder and more
anxious ns the months roll on. and the
end Of the war still seems distant.
Beef, and more especially bacon, are
required In ever greater quantities,
and the price of all these things has
soared. until 1t is not II question Of
what shall we produce, but how much
can we produce. Even should this
world calamity he brought to II close
Ia six months from now II will be
years before normal prc-war prices
prevail, and meantime self.interest II
not patriotism Is turning the minds Of
thousands back to the land. The in
evitable consequence has been the rise
In values OF land, especially wheat
land.
The Calgary Herald, commenting on
these conditions says:
From inquiries made from leading
dealers In farming and runching prop
critics, and from the Information gath.
cred In other ways. II Is known that
the value OF nll lund-wheat land,
mixed farming properties, and even
good grazing lnnd-has risen In the
last two years 40 per cent. Wheat
lands in some districts have practical-
ly doubled In price. one dealer In
farm lands recently sold three sections
for $40 an acre. n extra good quar-.
ter went rs high us 500, and another
hrough. 500. These are, OF course,
large prices, but that they will be
eQualcd or even surpassed in the neal
future Is beyond question. There Is q
feature about this rush to the land
from which the most solid hope cur
be drawn for the success of the move.
ment. The proper tillage OF land, tc
produce large crops In II climate Xix,
ours Is now understood and practiccd
ms II never was In the early days o!
the province. 1t would seem too tina,
with the Increase OF land under cult,
walton, the seasons are changing and
the rainfall becoming greater and more
regular.
Crops are being harvested. especial,
ly In Southern Alberta, which would
have seemed impossible to the old-time
farmer, with his o~ld-fashioned ideas
Of breaking and seeding. And at the
price now set by the government for
wheat and which possibly may be In
creased during the coming season, the
return 10 the practical skilled ngrlcul,
turist must necessarily be very large
nut ululteTs SlD OF even SSD I'LL
acre extra on wheat land when II re,
turn as high rs so bushels and even
more may be taken from every acre
sownf With hogs bringing $40 n hun.
dred pounds; beef on the hoof nj $l2
and mutton $40. while wool under the
new government arranged system OF
handling and sale brings 81 cents q
pound land these values cannot fall
10 any great extent for some years.
the demand FOR land will continue and
values Increase In a corresponding De.
gree.
There has never been In the history
OF Canada a time so favorable for the
farmer as the present; self-interest
the inspiration OF patriotic feeling, the
MD freely extended by the govern.
ment, who are permitting the import
of certain agricultural implement.
free, NIL these tend TO still further
raise the price of Alberta land."-Ad,
Yertisement.