The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-02
MISTRIAL IS ORDERED IN fall L.SINCLA AIR CASE
Balchen Now Slated Take Mrs. rayson AtIantc
LAND MOVING IN EVERY SECTION OF n. D.,
RECENT SURVEY BY 6. N. D. A. INDICATES

Campaign Urging Tenant
Farmers to Buy Now Being
Carried on-Advertising Of
Opportunities, Low Prices
in State Land Spread
Through Middle West
A survey now being made through
out North Dakota by the Greater
North Dakota Association indicates
that land is moving In every Sec
tion of the state, the association an
nounces n connection with releasing
. pamphlet for general distribution
in the state on THE Third Land
Movement in North Dakota" The
results Of the survey are to be pub
lished in the press Of the state in
the near future.
The state association IS conduct
ing the campaign urging North Da.
kota tenant farmers to buy farms
now rs part Of its state develop
ment program. Its general advertis-
ing campaign IN midwest states,
urging farmers there to avail them
selves Of the opportunities offered
on the low priced lands Of North
Dakota. has been resumed for the
fall and winter months and the local
campaign. It is announced. is in line
with its policy to serve North Da-
kota farmers rs well Is prospective
new settlers.
The observations. given to the
tenant farmers Of North Dakota in
the pamphlet just issued. read IS
follows:
"There is just plain ordinary COM
mon sense back Of the suggestion
that the tenant farmer buy . North
Dakota farm now.
"Tomorrow's train may bring Z
competitive buyer" is no idle slogan,
it is . real possibility. Tho con.
clusion is obvious. Now is the time
for tenant farmers to become owner
farmers. The price trend on North
Dakota land is not downward, has
not been for some time. "A decided
upward trend may begin any day,
and ownership will grow Increasing
ly more difficult.
Periodical Movement Due
"Seventy-five years ago Illinois
and Iowa land had climbed TO three
or four times that average.
Then took place the first great
land immigration into North Da-
kote. ThunsandS- ct farmars, many
Of whom are still Active In the state,
became farm owners through home
stead rights or purchase on easy
terms 1t low figures.
Development was slow but steady
and In about 20 years, along in the
early 1900's, with land ii other mid
western states again climbing to
new high levels, the second great
movement into North Dakota began.
Land prices in this state naturally
climbed to still higher levels.
I'm the succeeding quarter Of .
century land values in Illinois, Iowa,
and other midwestern states has
about reached the peaks level far
beyond the reach 6f the average
buyer who wants to make his home
and his life work on the farm.
"With increasing farm efficiency,
improved transportation, and grow
ing markets, North Dakota farm
land values have increased Just O.
rapidly - values elsewhere, but in
the absence Of any general land
ward movement the prices have in
creased but little. North Dakota
farm land prices are now where the
Iowa and Illinois prices were 20
years ago.
"But that situation 10 beginning
to change right now. The periodical
land movement, which statistics
show to take placs about every 20
to Is years, was delayed BY post
war conditions. But It was only
delayed, not stopped. The signs Of
the times are that the delayed move
ment is now beginning in earnest.
THAT means but one thing-an
increase in land prices in North d.
kota.
"The value Il here, the price will
b established by the demand. Those
who buy before the demand sends
the price to higher levels are those
who will profit most and the In.
creasing number Of local sales
throughout the stato shows how zen.
orally this truth already i recog-
m10AA
"North Dakotas soil l. just -
productive o ever, the rainfall and
sunshine producing abundant crops
in the past, did the same in 1927.
The future can b no different. New
crops, better methods, more efficient
machinery and livestock arc reduc-
ing costs and increasing gross In
ONES.
Attel ton i'urns 70 North pekots
The 20-year periodical land move
ment, the rapid spread of mixed
farming in North Dakota, and the
recent intensive colonization efforts
of the Greater North Dakota AZ.
sociation are three potent factors
that are bringing about this North
Dekot9 development.
THE constructive advertising
campaign carried on by the Creater
North Dakota Association has set
the middle west 70 talking favorably
about North Dakots. Right On the
eve o. tho ,petiodical trek Il has
turned attentiou and interest ia this
state. Already The first few buyers,
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