The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-06-28
INCREASE N WESTERN
CANADA LAND VALUES
Bot Forty and Fifty Bushels Of
Wheat 10 the Acre.

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During the past year there has been
= greater demand for farm lands In
Western Canada than for a number OF
yearn past. The demand II for good
farm lands improved or unimproved.
And NJ an increase Of from ten to ar.
teen dollars an acre more than the
same lands could be had for n couple
Of years ago.
The rise In the price Of every kind
Of produce grown on these Western
lands, In some cases 10 double and In
others to treble the price prevailing be-
fore 1914, have attracted and are at
tracing In ever-increasinR proportions
the men who are anxious 10 invest
their money, and apply their energies
IN the production OF wheat for which
the allied nations arc calling with
voices which grow louder and more
anxious ~ the months roll on, and the
end Of the war stiil seems distant
Beef. and more especially bacon. are
required In ever greater Quantities,
and the price OF all these things has
scared, until II n not a question Of
what shall We produce. but how much
81 we produce. Even should this
world calamity be brought 10 a close
IN mr months from now. Il win be
yean before normal pre-war prices
prevail, and meantime s~olflnterost n
cot patriotism Il turning the minds Of
Thousands back 20 the land. The In
svftable consequence has been the rise
10 value Of land, especially wheat
land.
The Calgary Herald. commenting on
these conditions says:
Prom inquiries made from leading
dealers In farming and ranchlng prop
critics, and from the Information gath
cred In other ways, II IL known that
the value Of all land-whcat land,
mized farming properties and even
EVod grazing land-hns risen In the
last two years 40 per cent. wheat
tslds In some districts have practical
" DOUBLED In price. One dealer In
farm lands recently sold three sections
for $40 an acre, one extra good guar
ter went AZ high as 500. and another
brought 500. These are. OF course
large prices. but that they will be
equaled or even surpassed In the neal
future Il beyond question. There In a
feature about this rush 20 the land
from which the most solid hope can
be drawn for the success Of the move
ment. The proper tlllage OF land. TO
produce large crops In n climate like
ours IL now understood and practiced
a. Il never wns In the early days OF
the province. Il would seem too that
with the increase OF land under Guilt
wilton, the seasons are changing
and the rainfall becoming greater end
more regular.
Crops are being harvested. especial
ly In Southern Alberta. which would
have seemed impossible TO the old-time
fnrmer. with his old-faahioned ideas
Of breaking and seeding. And AZ the
price now set by the government for
wheat and which possibly may be In
creased during the coming season. the
return to the practical skilled agricul-
turist must necessarily be very large.
what matters SO or even $50 al
acre extra on wheat land when a TO
turn as high as 90 bushels and even
more may be taken from every acre
Bowni With hogs bringing so a hun
dred pounds; beef On the hoof Al ti2,
and mutton SIC, while wool under the
now government arranged system Of
handling and sale brings 90 cents a
pound (and these values cannot fall
10 any great extent for some years)
the demand for land will continue and
,nlues increase In a corresponding de-
Sree.
There has never been In the history
Of Canada a time 70 favorable for the
fnrmer as the present; selfinterest,
the inspiration OF patriotic feeling, the
aid freely extended by the govern
ment. who are permitting the import
Of certain agricultural implements
free, all these tend 10 still further
raise the price OF Alberta land"-Ad-
vertiBement.