The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1919-03-07
IlND IN DEMAND
,.oortunities Of Western Canada
W Becoming Known.
al. Soil on Which Can Be Pro-
1s..d Record Crops offered to Set
Tiers at Prices Attractive to
Farm Seekers.

:, tho early months of 1910 there
IS n demand for farm lands In West
avn Canada. the greatest that has ever
,a.n In the history of the country.
Ts,s desplte the fact that farm lands
.a,e increased In price, MS the value
:, Tho farm product has increased and
N. yIrility and productive value of
western Canada farm lands have come
rore md more into evidence. Farm
i,c there is no longer an experiment.
cood crops can be grown In all locali-
,Ies some probably little more IA
,orahle than others, but on the whole
cood-more than good-genernl nv
srare Land elsewhere on the CONT
mont Is used for the developing of one
hundred and twenty dollar steers,
,hrty.6ye dollar hogs. two dollar and
tuenty cent wheat and eighty-flve
cent oats. and its price Is anywhere
from one hundred and fifty to three
hundred dollars m acre. Western
canada land sells at from twenty to
forty dollars an acre, and the farmer
rutiyating 1t gets one hundred and
twenty-five dollars for his steer, thirty
sye dollars for his hog, two dollars
and twenty cents for his wheat. and
eIrhty.fve cents for his oats. And he
ran grow corn. too, but Western Can
ada is saying no more about 1t than
North Dakota did fifteen years ago.
-. Il, ,rne an oxpartmopt fharo and
see what North Dakota is doing to-
day, The prediction is that In less
than decade corn will be grown sue
-essfully in all parts of Western Can
ada. 1t Is, therefore, easy to account
for the Increased demand for West
srn 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.
No! 1t was just factor in winning
ID, as was the soldier of Italy. of
france, of Belgium, of Great Britain.
" Canada and of the United States.
An important factor, nevertheless.
People generally have begun to real
ize what food means, means to every
tOdy-and 1t is, grown on the farm.
50 people today want farm lands, and
tley want those that are good. The
great, wide, open stretches of wonder
fully productive soil Of Western Can
sda are the chief attraction of the
land seekers of today, and 1t will be
,r oil
these vacant inviting acres are brought
Into frution by the hand of man and
the multiplied effort of steam and gas
cline power. to the influence and OPP
eration of which these lands present
such splendid opportunity.
The pulse of today's desire to secure
farm lands may be seen to beat in the
columns of the local newspaper, re-
cording sales of many tracts of mnds,
'anging from 100 to 1000 acres. A
Regina tSask.) paper says. "In farm
lands there is so brisk business be-
Ing done that it might be considered
BOOM Another paper reports the
sale of section of raw prairie seven
miles enst of Regina for $35 an acre,
and 200 acres ut $50 an acre. One
reai'estatc firm handled in three
weeks time over $500 acres of farm
lands, the turnover being upward of
sW,OOO. An improved farm near Re-
s'na changed hands at SAT an acre.
FOR the first time in the history of
Tie Moosejaw district farm land has
N 6