Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1919 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LAND IN DEMAND

Opportunities of Western Canada Becoming Known. t Fertile Soil on Which Can duced Record Crops Offered to Settiers at Prices Attractive to Farm Seekers. In the early months of 1919 there was a demand for farm lands in Western Canada, the greatest that has ever been in the history of the country. This despite the fact that farm lands have increased In price, as the value of the farm product has increased apd the virility and productive value of Western Canada farm lands have come more and more into evidence. Fanning there is no longer an experiment Good crops can be grown In at! localities, some probably a little more favorable than others, but on the whole a good—more than good—general average. Land elsewhere on the continent is used for the developing of one hundred and twenty dollar steers, thirty-five dollar hogs, two dollar and twenty cent wheat and eighty-five cent oats, and its price is anywhere from one hundred and fifty to three hundred dollars an acre. Western Canada land sells at from twenty forty dollars an acre, and the farmer cultivating It gets one hundred and twenty-five dollars for his steer, thirtyfive dollars for his hog, two dollars and twenty cents for his wheat, and eighty-five cents for his oats. And he can grow corn, too, but Western Cahada is saying no more about it than North Dakota did'fifteen years ago, when It wns an experiment there, and see what North Dakota is doing today. The prediction -is that in less than a decade corn will be grown successfully in all parts of Western Canada. It Is, therefore, easy to account for the increased demand for Western Canada lands. The war is ended, and the food that the American and Canadian farmer sent across to the soldier, holding up ids strength and maintaining his vitnlity, won the war. No! "It was just a factor in winning it, as was the soldier of Italy, of France, of Belgium, of Great Britain, of Canada and of the United States. An important factor, nevertheless. People generally have begun to realize what food means, means to everybody—and it is grown on the farm. So people today want farm lands, and tney w r ant those that are good. The great, wide, open stretches of wonderfully productive soil of Western Canada are the chief attraction of the land seekers of today, and it will be so tomorrow, and of all days, until these vacant inviting acres are brought into fruition by the hand of man and the multiplied effort of steam and gasoline power, to the influence and operation of which these lands present such a splendid opportunity. • The pulse of today’s desire to secure farm lands may be seen to beat in the columns of the local newspaper, recording sales of many tracts of lands, ranging from 160 to 1,200 acres. A Regina (Sask.) paper says, “In farm lands, there is so brisk a business being done that it might be considered a boom.” Another paper reports the sale of a section of raw prairie seven miles east of Regina for $35 an acre, and 200 acres at SSO an acre. One real-estate firm handled In three , weeks’ time over 3,500 acres of farm lands, the turnover being upward of SIOO,OOO. An improved farm near Regina changed hands at $47 an acre. “For the first time in the-history of the Moosejaw district farm land has been sold for SIOO an acre, when J. S. Cameron of Victoria, B. C., sold half a section, known as the Lett farm, to John Logan. The farm was bought a year ago for SBS an acre and is located three miles from the city. It is highly improved and has fine buildings.” An extract from a local paper says: “The movement of farm lands is opening up well this season and there is every' Indication that a large area of prairie property will be turned over during the months Intervening before seedtime. “The price received for farm lands in eacir instance is considered as good, particularly for unimproved raw prairie, and shows a considerable improvement on prices for-similar properties sold during the years of the war.” — Advertisement •

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