The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-04-11
LAND VALUE FIXE|
Depends Altogether on Power
Giving Wealth
That 10 Why the Fertile Acres Of WEI
srn Canada. With Adjacent MAJ.
ksts, Are So Attractive
70 SettierA

Throughout every portion Of q
Western Empire lands that are cnpah
Of producing are In great demao
We find that In the States OF prove
agricultural wealth. land prices hat
increased within the past three
four years TO a degree that ten yea
ago would not have been thought
be possible. Land that sought ouye
| at 500 an acre Eve years ago
/ changing hands at 500 an acre. IL
secret OF this does not lie aitogeth<
| In the higher prices OF farm produced
1 for the expense Of production has z
| creased proportionateiy. The bett(
methods of farming have had q God
deal TO do with IL. and the knowied4
that demands for farm products v.
be sufficiently great for o good maa
years to come 10 insure a contsnuatid
of the high prices that prevail I
present. Then. again. improved M
chinery. the tractor and other meas
Of economic power win tend to lesss
The cost.
Governing land values. too. are c1I
mates. soil. moisture. settiemsxI ral,
roads, markets. Without markets. q,
matter how much the other factors q
ter into II. the land In merely Z
speculative value.
II is not more than . third u
century since ninety per cent
the land In Western Canada. now q
cupied and titled. and produdn
enough In one year 10 give . pro-
Of from twenty-five 10 thirty dOluas
per acre. was unoecupied or used Z
grazing land. and worth very tttt1s
These lands today are valuable, N
are being sought by settlers who RI
Ice their present and future vafu'
There In no portion Of the world tn
. h attracting the same attention. n
! coll may have improved In this pal
: centuries with the fertilixing givea
by nature: the climate has ~
changed. and the moisture may !
considered the same. These are thrs
, Of the essentials OF good land. VIII
! they lacked third Of century a
was markets. fourth essensis
These they have now. Thus provide
II Is not 10 be wondered at that the
' millions Of acres with their gre
D wealth, which have % long been avn
$ ing the awakening touch of mankin
= are now 10 be found adding 70 q
. available wealth OF the world. vi
the advent Of railroads. throwing tn
e great trunks Of steel across the q
'. tinent and over the surface Of thu
i. boundiess plains. spreading out u,
N tentacies 10 remotcr parts. the wCt
y AZ large has begun TO realize that b
was q country possessing all the n
urai advantages claimed by older CO
: munities: that land here Just - @
." or better. acre for acre. ~ their o
:" could be had for almost the asking
%. With the realization Of the 70
ID going facts came the people. =
IN found that = railway had precet
them and markets already existed
Il snything that they nigh. caro-
NJ raise. These markets have grea
:. expanded and. are capable u .
a. greater expansion. and assure -
n. agricuiturist the prevailing prices
! the world. An assured market nes
:, aided value TO every acre Of land
Western Canada. md the near fut,
win see lands that are now seiil
IN nj exceptionally low prices b~gin
10 Increase In vaiue. inst as they have
nj Eastern Canada and the United Stat
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