The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-04-29
WANTS own FARM
Why One Youth Seeks the Land
Of Opportunity.
Reckoning Hands Of independence and
Wealth Stretch Out From Western
Canada to Those Who Have
Faith and Courage.

Faith and Courage.
Strolling around the exhibit room OF
the Canadian government Office in st.
Paul, studying the grain, and picking
up an odd piece or two of literature
describing farming and its results in
Western Canada, dapper well-built,
strapping six-footer said to the man
ager, 'Pve been having a grand whirl
of living for the past few years. l
used to work on my uncle's farm In
Iowa. heard Of the big fat pay en-
velopes that the city chaps were get
ting every week. went to the city,
and began getting them, too. 1 had
all the excitement they would bring
-theaters, dinners, swell clothes and
taxls. surely saw a lot Of that life
that In days gone by had anxiously
gazed upon and secretly wanted to
try.
But I'm driven to earth now. I'm
still working, but the pay envelope is
thinner. Not working steadily, you
know, and 1 sort of miss those silk
shirt times. 1 went to Western Cam
ada once, and / think I'll make am
other trip.
II was up there five years ago. I
want money, and lots of it; ! want
to be my own boss, but 1 haven't much
coin to start with. l want to get into
that class that don't have to worry
about a buck or so. know fellows
out there In Canada who went there,
a few years ago, got quarter section
some homesteaded and some bought
on easy payments-and they are well
of today. A number of the boys from
my own state paid for their lands
from single crop. I may not be as
successful as they were, but want
to try"
He wanted to talk, and the manager
was a good listener He continued:
II want to have my own home, and
raise my own cattle; want hogs and
poultry, and milk and eggs to sell.
Can get a marketT
He was assured that he could, and
that he could get decent-sized crop
to thrash every fall.
"You know" he said, "if the farm
ers on fve-hundred- dollar-an-acre land
can make money, my reasoning leads
me to believe that can grow as many
dollars an acre from that cheaper land
in Western Canada"
This period of semi-unrest is caus-
ing more thinking and planning for
the future than probably at any time
in the past. The desire for personal
and financial independence is grow
ing. To secure this, the first real
source Of wealth is the land itself.
That is the solution. During the era
of high prices, doubtless there was
some imitation Of land values. So the
new man,-the young man wishing to
make a start on a farm-was con-
fronted with the problem of the land
he wanted having gone beyond his
limited capital. He must seek else
where. Two decades ago, and less,
good farming land could be bought
in Canada at four dollars an acre, but
as the demand increased and its pro-
ductivity was proven, prices advanced.
There has been no undue imitation,
though, and prices today are very rea-
sonable. Some day, when the coun-
try is settled, land win bring much
higher price in Western Canada. To-
day land prices range for unimproved,
SIS to $25 an acre; improved, at $50
up.
The productive value is almost be-
You'd estimate. The reports Of those
who have been farming these lands,
making money and enjoying every
personal freedom, are available and
can be secured on application.
It is apparent that this last big
available farming, area of Western
Canada viii tend, to no small extent,
to dlspel some of the unrest that is
so prevalent today among the young
er men, who have had a taste Of bet
ter things and who intend to have
them in the advertisement.