Show WORKERS SHOULD POSSESS THE LAND There here seems seems seems' to be lJ a slight in land Jaud speculation that has been heen so for the lust i f few w years This Tins does not mean that the settlement nt of the thc e state will be arrested indeed it should l have e a exactly the effect and may i increase r crea e and pio production a good many ninny really leally good rood farmers have b been en ably able to devote de de- devote vote ote but little of their time tittle to raising crops of late laft so much 11 more profitable table has been heen the bu buying ing and selling of lands This is somewhat of n a a repetition repetition repetition repe repe- of our mining operations When we cant can't sell mines we ve dig After we have ha dug a awhile awhile awhile while and produced a a. a lot lot of ore and di dividends people people come nosing around an and d buy bur mines mineso o of us Perhaps the time tithe has come conic cometo cometo to resume me farming and show people the profit that is in it it or or for those thos who have hae acquired lands for speculative purposes to let go and allow those who know how to farm to have them then at a n price at which they can make a go good d living ng for for- themselves and amid their families Nothing discourages settlers more than to come route into a district district district dis dis- and find the land or options thereon all in the hands hand of speculators u who are aie making an un artificial pi price ice which the tilt intending farmer cannot afford aford to pa The speculator i ia is a l high liver li himself and aud when he keeps keels the real worker off the land laud he makes living Hying high for r other people Being a speculator however he mostly works on ou a n small small margin in and nud so soon soo 1 as as- th things ings cease to go up and chan change e hands readily he lie has to get out as he hc cannot himself make the hind land 1 productive rod d de e The Thc real value of lands is so great that we wc shall always b be he rich enough if only the right light men can occupy and aud im improve pro c them Such reb returns as as asare are made ondry on oil dry lan lands s each cach year jear by men like 1 or rink at Parker Colo are far greater than the mere merc use rise in iu pi price ice per acre acie that such lands lances make in inthe inthe inthe the hands of speculators tors Successful Successful Successful Suc Suc- fa farming operation means increase ot of t population an asset that v c ye c need while too high a n a capitalization of the tile raw lands lauds checks immigration and pi events improvement I Lord Ogilvy in Denver Deliver Post Post |