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Show CROCKER WHEAT LAND m BIG PROFITS After Reaping a Record Crop, Owner Sells Out for $30,000. When the profits from the fine crops of wheat that are being raued on the dry farms of northern Ltah ami southern south-ern Idaho are added to the increase in the value of the land it doesn't take many years 'for the farmers to become rich, according to llerschel Bulleii, Jr., secretary and manager of the Promontory-Curlew Land company of Logan, which has already sold more than naif of the 400, UU0 acres of wheat land it acquired from the Crocker estate jp Mr. Butlen recited the experience of William C. Greaves as proof of the rapid increase in the value of dry-farm lands in Boxelder county. "Only a few years agcy ' Mr. Ballon said yesterday, "Mr. Greaves was a young man in Logan, with very little money but plenty of pluck and determination. deter-mination. He went into the Hansel valley and bought 1(30 acres of public land at $12.50 an acre and began raising rais-ing wheat. In 1SM0, when the Promon-torv-Curlew Land company placed on the mai-Ket the 400,000 acres it had acquired ac-quired from the Crocker estate, Greaves bought enough land from us to give him a farm of practically 1000 acres. "He put a considerable portion of his land in wheat and his crops have averaged as high as thirty-five bushels to the acre. A few davs ago he sold his farm for $30,000 it didn't cost him more than ifiSOOO and the man who bought it got a bargain. "The experience of Mr. Greaves not only shows how rapidly laud in the Promontory-Curlew tract increases in value when it is put under cultivation, but it also shows that it is easy for a man to dispose of his holdings at a handsome profit if, for any reason, he wants to retire from the farming business. busi-ness. However, the settlers at Promontory-Curlew are so enthusiastic over the land and its money-making possibilities that few of them will even consider a proposition to sell. On the contrary, many of them add to their . holdings from -ear to year by purchasing additional addi-tional land from the company. "When a man puts a small amount of money and plenty of intelligent effort ef-fort into the farming of Promontory-Curlew Promontory-Curlew wheat lands he is bound to make money, and this is proved conclusively con-clusively bv the actual results obtained bv practically every farmer on the tract." ." |