The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-03-13
SECURE NOW
Western Canada Offers 0ppor-
tunity to the Ambitious.
Fertile Land at Moderate Cost, With
Social and other Advantages That
Mean So Much, Will Soon
Be Taken Up.

The desire to have a piece OF lano
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 Ianu
available in the United States, no great
difficulty was experienced by any aLh-
bilious settler who wished TO become
his own IandhOlder, but the rapid
increase in population, combined with
the corresponding rise in the price OF
land. has completely changed this con-
tlition. Land which a generation ago
might be had for demonstrating, now
commands prices ranging to 500 an
acre and over. At such prices 1t is
S.Ite hopeless for the city man with
limited capital, to attempt to buy q
farm of his own. To pay for it be-
comes a lifelong task, and the prob
ability is that he will never do more
than meet the interest charges. II
ne 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 it pos
Sible for the settler with small capt.
tai to become q farm owner as the
result Of a 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 &C
customed; q country with the same
language, same religion, same general
habits Of living, with laws, currency,
weights and measures, ETC., based on the
same principles as those with which
he Is familiar. He wants a country
where he can buy land from $50 to
$40 an acre which will produce as
big or bigger crops as those he has
been accustomed to from lands at 800
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 few years independent and we'll
started on the road to financial sue
cess.
All these conditions he will find in
western Canada. The provinces of Al
berta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba
provide the one and only answer to
the land-hungry. The land is there
1t is the kind Of land he wants; the
conditions are as nearly ideal as Is
possible, and the prices and terms are
such that the man of moderate CAPT.
tai has an opportunity not available
to him elsewhere. Land values are
going to increase, but 1t will largely
depend on how well the soil can be
used. end the modern farmer is using
1t each year to better advantage.
But those who are on the ground
and come closest to the heart of the
farming sections are convinced that no
material decrease in value is In sight
Indeed, they are almost unanimous in
believing that we shall see a strong
real estate market for fertile land,
with prices maintained; and as de
Velopment and further equipments are
added the prices on the open market
may be expected to show a further in
crease as the years go on-up to the
limit of income plus what men are
willing to pay to possess an attractive
home.
Someone once said: Never sell
short on the United States. You will
lose every time" And this applies to
those who are inclined to believe that
the future of farm values is in doubt
The American farmer is going for
ward, not backward, and the same
may be said of the Canadian farmer.
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