The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1919-05-01
LAND Value FIXED
Depends Altogether on Power Of
Giving Wealth.
That 10 Why the Fertile Acres Of West
ern Canada, With Adjacent Mar.
kets, Are So Attractive
to Settlers.

Throughout every portion Of the
Western Empire lands that are capable
S producing are In great demand.
We and that In the States Of proved
agricultural wealth, land prices have
Increased within the past three or
four years to q degree that ten years
ago would not have been thought to
be possible. Land that sought buyers
at 500 IN acre five years ago Is
changing hands ut $500 an acre. The
secret of this does not lie altogether
In the higher prices of farm products,
for the expense of production has in
creased proportlonately. The better
methods OF farming have had n good
deal to do with 1t, and the knowledge
that demands for farm products will
be sufficiently great for q good many
years to come to insure n continuation
of the high prices that prevail ut
present. Then, again, improved ma
chlnery, the tractor and ether means
of economic power will tend to lessen
the cost.
Governing land values, too. are cli-
mates, soil, moisture, settlement, rail.
roads, markets. Without markets, no
matter how much the other factors en-
ter into It, the land Is merely OF
speculative value.
II Is not more than a third Of a
century since ninety per cen Of
the land In Western Canada, now oc-
cupied md titled, and producing
enough In n year to give a profit
of from twenty-five to thirty dollars
per acre, was unoccupicd or used as
grazing land, and worth very little.
These lands today are valuable, and
are being sought by settlers who real
ize their present and future value.
There Is no portion of the world that
Is attracting the same attention. The
soil may have improved in the past
centuries with the fcrtilizlng given II
by nature; the climate has not
changed, and the moisture may be
considered the same. These are thrco
of the essentials of good land. What
they lacked a third of n century ago
was markets-a fourth essential.
These they have now. Thus provided,
It Is not to be wondered Mt that these
millions Of acres with their great
wealth, which have so long been await.
ing the awakening touch OF mankind,
are now to be found adding to the
available wealth Of the world. With
the advent Of railroads, throwing their
great trunks of steel across the cOn
tinent and over the surface Of these
boundless plains, spreading out theil
tentacles to remoter parts, the world
at large has begun to realize that here
was a country possessing all the nat
ural advantages claimed by older com
munlties; that land here just ms good
or better, mere for acre, MS their OWE
could be had for almost the asking.
With the realization Of the fore
going facts came the people, who
found that n railway had preceded
them and markets already existed fol
anything that they might care tc
raise. These markets have greatly
expanded and, are capable OF still
greater expansion, and assure to the
agriculturlst the prevailing prices Of
the world. An assured market mean!
added value to every acre OF land II
Western Canada. and the neal futur,
will see lands that are now sellinl
at exceptionally low prices begin Il
increase In value. Just rs they have II
Eastern Canada and the United States
advertisement.