Show t e j Land Lan Values Increasing I THE HE recent opening pening of the governments government's North Platte pr project j ct in IE and Wyoming and the he open opening ng today of of th the Shone Shone Sho- Sho Sho one ne ne' ne project near Powell Wyo with preference given applicant nt of former service men men calls attention to the great increase line value of tillable lands in the West during the past f few w years fd presents an indication of what m may y be expected ted in this this' respect a result of the constantly increasing growth of af the population 1 his ims section of the country mil It is estimated that many of the eighty acre tracts in the Platte k c can n be sold by the fortunate applicants within seven mont months s period in which fin final l proof can be made for not less than thant t 10 oo or more than an aI a acre re while similar tracts in the rood one project are valued at as much as for or at the rate vt j r F F j 00 o an n nacre acre Naturally aIlY tte tle lands carry water rights but but even under that the fact that they are now valued at to anre an re Is remarkable remarkable e when it is remembered that scar scarcely ely more more than a a ago good l lands lying between the productive regions of e Middle West and the Far West were not worth more than thane e proverbial song while even even the m more more re productive lands i in many many arts of the Middle West Vest were held at as low Iowa a a price as from 50 I lt 75 an acre he opening of these government projects also serves serves' again call cali attention to the prospect that the appropriation of for the farm demonstration work on Ves Western ern reclamation tion jests will be reduced by congress he efforts being made by the government to provide home- home fid ds' ds for those of its br brave ive young patriots who may desire to toe e p farming as a vocation and the certainty that many other projects will at various tinges times tim s in the future be opened the government in in Various public land areas area including Utah if an increase in t the Ie appropriation for farm demonstration cf kit rather than a a decrease I |