Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-03-07
LAND IN DEMAND
Opportunities Of Western Canada
Becoming Known.
Fertile Soil on Which Can Be Pro-
dueed Record Crops offered TO Set
tiers at Prices Attractive 70
Farm Seekers.

In the early months Of 1919 there
was a demand for farm lands IN West
ern Canada. the greatest that has ever
been In tho history OF the country.
This despite the fact that farm lands
have increased In price, M the value
OF the farm product has Increased and
tho vlrillty and productive value OF
Western Canada farm lands have come
more and more into evidence. Farm
iDg there Is no longer an experiment.
Good crops can be grown IN all locall-
ties, some probably . little more fa-
vOrnple than others, bat on the whole
a sood-more than good-genernl Nv
ernge. Land elsewhere on the CONT
nent Is used for the developing Of n
hundred and twenty dollar steers,
t~hirty-ive dollar hogs, two dollar and
twenty cent wheat and eighty-ive
cent oats. and It's price Is anywhere
from one hundred and fifty TO three
hundred dollars an acre. Western
Canada land sells Mt from twenty to
forty dollars mn acre., and the farmer
%cultivating II gets one hundred and
twenty 1--WE dollars for his steer, thirty
Ave dollars for his hog, two dollars
and twenty cents for his wheat, and
eighty-hve cents for his oats. And he
can grow corn, too. but Western Cnn-
ada Is saying no more about II than
North Dakota did fifteen years ago,
when It was m experiment there, and
see what North Dakota Is doing to-
day. The prediction is that In less
than a decade corn will be grown sue.
cessfully In all parts of Western Can
ada. II Is, therefore. easy to account
for the increased demand for West
ern Canada lands. The war Is ended,
and the food that the American and
Canadian farmer sent across to the
soldier, holding up his strength and
maintaining his vitality, won the war.
MOI II was just n factor In winning
Il, as was the soldier OF Italy, Of
France, OF Belgium, OF Great Britain,
OF Cenadn and OF the United States.
An important factor, nevertheless
People generally have begun to real
ize what food means, means to every
body-and II is grown on the farm
SO people today want farm lands, and
tney want lnObe Jnut uTe BOou' Ahe
great, wide, open stretches Of wonder
fully productive soil OF Western Can
adm are the chief attraction of the
land seekers of today, and It will bS
80 tomorrow, and Of all days, unit
these vacant inviting acres are brought
into frultion by the hand of man ant
the multiplied effort OF steam and gas
oline power, TO the Influence and op
Grafton OF which these lands presen'
such a splendid opportunity.
The pulse of today's desire to secure
farm 'ands may be seen to beat In thu
columns OF the local newspaper, re
cording sales OF many tracts Of lands
ranging from 100 TO 1,200 acres. 4
Regina (Sask.) paper says, I'm farm
lands there is so brisk a business be
ing done that It might be considered
a boom" Another paper reports tn
sale Of a section Of raw prairie sevei
rules east of Regina for $50 ar acre
and 200 acres at $50 an acre. On
r~eal-estate firm handled In tire
weeks time over $500 acres OF farr
lands, the turnover being upward o
100000. An improved farm near Re