The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-02-16
THE REAL VALUE
OF MOSCOW Land
G. p. MEX SEES TENDENCY TO
UNDER VALUE-SAYS LAND
WORTH FROM $50 TO $3.50.

! Since the price of farm products
receded from the wartime figures.
there is tendency to bear down the
price of Palouse land below its real
value. There are many, however,
who believe that the rich PaIouse
soil, properly titled, is worth practic-
ally the price which it was bringing
when wheat was 81 per bushel. They
claim, and with good reason that it is
worth at least $3.50 per acre, and that
with the farmers getting into diver
sified farming, it will soon be selling
readily at that figure or more, and
claim that a farmer is foolish to
throw his farm on the market at a
figure below its actual worth because
he has been pinched somewhat in the
readjustment process.
G. p. Mix, well known farmer and
MOSCOW booster, is one of the men
VINO believes that land in the vicinity
OF Moscow is now being valued its
real worth, and expresses his opinion
III the following interview given The
Mirror:
Inc value OF farm lands is a ques-
t1on much discussed during these
ClneS Oh stress and strain, and we find
every kind of opinion expressed by
those who know and those who ought
to know and then by those who talk
against their judgment and hoping in
the meantime that land prices will
drop to point so they might invest
the more readily. Agriculture is the
greatest of all industries and upon
which governments depend for sta
blllty and strength, yet we minimize
the Importance of land ITSELF, as a
matter OF local pride it ruffles my dis
position to have men argue that land
mere, possessed of every requirement.
that will make land produce bounti-
fully year after year, decade after
decade, with as much certainty as
season follows season, has not
value more than the rate of interest
which it will pay from a money lend
ers standpoint
Our good farm lands in a radius
OF several miles of Moscow are worth
from $4,000 to $2500O per acre, de-
pending more or less on location of
roads, water, depth of soil and ability
TO yield to proper handling and i'm
proyements Yet We have a class of
men constantly preaching that no
land is worth more. than $4,000 per
acre. Such pessimism is not con-
iuciye to the good of the community,
nor are they giving proper credit to
our most important asset Farmers
laye suffered at all times by lack of
credit to finance his business, he is
more or less subject to the whims and
actions of lacal institutions. This
condition is going to change. Just
notice the wonderful concessions re-
;ently made in our Federal Reserve
A fa ir
3oard of seven Directors. This in
iustry, the basis of all prosperity and
more important than all other. is to
'e recognized against the bitter pro-
est of Wall Street, by one man on the
3oard, | fail to see why we shouldn't
lave at least three. But time will
lttend to this. The farmer has been
he hardest hit of all in the recent un-
)leasantness politicians tell us not
o say panic), yet he will be the first
o come into his own. The fact that
20 many congressman and senators
ire coming up for election again this
all make me feel that we may expect
ome legislation much needed by
agricultural interests. We do not need
guaranteed price on wheat We do
lot need the sympathy of Wall Street
md allied interest Only the realiza-
ion by our government of the tre-
nendous responsibility that rests on
he farmer in maintaining his busi-
less on more profitable basis, thus
nsurlng an epoch of prosperity nev-
er before reached by any country or
people. We are now rapidly entering
his door. Farm lands are to become
)ur most cherished possessions and
Ortunate indeed will be the man who
hangs on. Within ten years time /
ook to see in every farm home in this
community hot and cold water, toilet
md bath, furnace heat, electric lights.
The automobile and telephone, we
lave now. Then it will be no longer
! question of keeping the farm boy
IN the farm, but how will you keep
he town boy in town
Don't sell your farm, at least until
-ou get fair price"
REDUCE AMERICAN FORCES