Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1916 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A LANO PROBLEM AHEAD (FROM THE PEORIA JOURNAL.) The Nebraska State Journal calls attention to the fact that Uncle Sam's opening of a 4,000-acre tract in the North Platte irrigation district for settlement practically winds up the “free land distribution” of the nation. It adds: “Free or cheap land has been the American safety valve. A population straining for self-bet-terment has had its own remedy—to go west and grow up with the country. With the government reduced to advertising an opening of forty-three farms, the safety valve may be considered forever closed. The expansive energy formerly exerted outward, must hereafter work itself out Intensively. Increasing land speculation, with rapidly rising prices of land and proportionately Increasing dissatisfaction among the landless would seem inevitable. The tone of our politics and the Intensity of our social problems cannot but be vitally changed under the strain of dealing internally with a social pressure which hitherto has had the wilderness to vent itself upon. " ‘Land hunger* will soon become a reality in this rapidly growing country and the constant pressure *of population, increasingly higher than the ratio of production, is bound to bring us face to face with economic problems that we have heretofore considered remote. The far-sighted statesman and publicist must devote his thought earnestly to the consideration of these questions if we are to escape the extremes which curse the older nations of the world." In the above will be found one of the reasons that the Canadian Government is offering 160 acres of land free to the actual settler. There is no dearth of homesteads of this size, and the land is of the highest quality, being such as produces yields of from 30 to 60 bushels of wheat per acre, while oats rim from fifty to over hundred bushels per acre. It is not only a matter of free grants, but in Western Canada are also to be had other lands at prices ranging from sl2 to S3O per acre, the difference in price being largely a matter of location and distance from railway. If one takes into consideration the scarcity of free grant lands in the United States it is not difficult to understand why there has been most material advances in the price of farm lands. A few years ago, land that now sells for two hundred dollars an acre in lowa, could have been bought for sev-enty-five dollars an acre or less. The increased price is warranted by the Increased value of the product raised ot» these farms. The land that today can be had in Western Canada <at the low prices quoted will in a less time than that taken for the lowa lands to Increase, have a proportionate increase. In Nebraska the lands that sold for sixteen to twenty dollars per acre seven years ago, find a market at one hundred and seventy-five dollars an acre, for the same reason given for the increase in lowa lands. Values in these two States, as well as in others that might be mentioned, show that Western Canada lands are going at a song at their present prices. In many cases in Western Canada today, there are American settlers who realize this, and are placing a value of sixty and seventy dollars an acre on their improved farms, but would sell only because they can purchase unimproved land at such a low price that in another few years they would have equally as good farms as they left or such as their friends have in the United States. 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