The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1919-03-14
SECURE FARM NOW.
Western Canada Offers 0ppor-
tunity to the Ambitious.
Fertile Land at Moderate Cost, with
Social and other Advantages That
Mean So Much, viii Soon
Be Taken Up.

The desire to have q piece of land
of ones own is a natural. instinct In
the heart of every properly developed
man and woman. In earlier years. on
account of the great areas of land
available In the United States. no great
difficulty was experienced by any am
bilious settler who wished to become
his own landholder, but the rapid
Increase In population, combined with
the corresponding rise In the price OF
land, has completely changed this con-
dition. Land which a generation ago
might be had for homesteading. now
commands prices ranging to 500 an
acre and over. At such prices 1t IL
quite hopeless for the city man with
limited capital. to attempt to buy .
farm of his own. To pay for 1t be-
comes a lifelong task. and the prob
ability Is that he will never do more
than meet the interest charges. II
be is serious In his desires to secure
q farm home he must look to coun-
tries where there is still abundant
fertile land available at moderate cost.
and where these lands are to be pur-
chased on terms which make II pos
sible for the settler with small capt.
tai to become farm owner as the
result OF few years labor. He will
also want land In a country where
the practices Of the people are SINH
lar to those to which he has been ac-
customed; country with the same
language. same religion. same general
habits of living. with laws, currency.
weights and measures, etc., based on the
same principles rs those with which
he is familiar. He wants country
where he can buy land from $50 to
$40 an ncre which will produce as
big or bigger crops as those he has
been accustomed to from lands Mt 500
an acre. He wants this land where
social conditions will be attractive to
himself and family, and where he can
look forward with confidence to being |
In a few years independent, and well
started on the road to financial sue
cess.
All these conditions he will find u
western Canada. The provinces Of Al
berta, Saskatchewan. and Manitota
provide the one and only answer to
the land-hungry. The land is there3 |
II is the kind OF land he wants; thol
are as nearly ideal % RI
possible. and the prices and terms
such that the man Of moderate
tai has IN opportunity not avn
to him elsewhere. Land valDee
going u increase. but e W1ll Ian
depend o. how well the ell Cad
used, and the modern farmer Is H.
L each year to better advantage
But those who are on the grouG
md come closest TO the heart of -
'arming sections are convinced that -
Material decrease In value IL In sighk /
indeed. they are almost unanimous II /
that we shall see a~stroaG /
'eal estate market for fertile land. 1
With prices maintained; and as T. /
'elopment and further equipments aro
ldded the prices on the open market !
nay be expected 10 show n further - /
rease as the years go on--up to Tie
INIT of income plus what men arr
Wiling TO pay TO possess an attractive
lone.
Someone once said: "Never eel
hort on the United States. You win
ose. every time" And this applies - |
hose who are inclined to believe that
he future of farm values Is In doubt
rhe American farmer is going for
Yard. not backward. and the nDe
my be said OF the Canadian faruGe.