Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-04-04
LAND Value FIXED
Depends Altogether on Power of
Giving Wealth.
That Is 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
of producing are in great demand.
We find that in the States of proved
agricultural wealth, land prices have |
increased within the past three or |
four years to a degree that ten years |
ago would not have been thought to |
be possible. Land that sought buyers |
at S1O0 an acre five years ago is |
changing hands at 5000 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 proportionately. The better
methods of farming have had a good
deal to do with it, and the knowledge
that demands for farm products will
be sufficiently great for a good many
years to come to insure continuation
of the high prices that prevail at
present. Then, again, improved ma
| chinery, the tractor and other means
| Of economic power will tend to lessen
| the cost.
Governing land values, too, are eli
mates, soil, moisture, settlement, rail-
matter how much the other factors en-
ter into it, the land is merely of
| speculative value.
1t is not more than a third of
century since ninety per cent of
the land in Western Canada, now oc-
cupied and titled, and producing
enough in one year to give a profit
| of from twenty-five to thirty dollars
| per acre, was unoccupied 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 fertilizing given it
! by nature; the climate has not
changed, and the moisture, may be
| considered the same. These are three
of the essentials of good land. What
they lacked a third of a century ago
| was markets. fourth essential.
These they have now. Thus provided,
it is not to be wondered at that these
millions of acres with their great
| W6uilIl, WHICH nave So IOIlS D60Il await
ing the awakening touch of mankind,
are now to be found adding to the
available wealth of the world. With
tine advent of railroads, throwing their
great trunks of steel across the con-
tinent and over the surface of these
boundless plains, spreading out their
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
munities; that land here just as good
or better, acre for acre, as their own
could be had for almost the asking
With the realization of the fore
going facts came the people, whG
found that a railway had preceded
them and markets already existed fol
anything that they might care tC
raise. These markets have great!
expanded and, are capable of still
greater expansion, and assure TO the
agriculturist the prevailing prices o.
the world. An assured market mean.
added value to every acre of land il
Western Canada, and the near future
will see lands that are now sellins
at exceptionally low prices begin tt
increase in value, Just as they have il
Eastern Canada and the United States
advertisement.