Show TO OWNERS it to is pretty generally known that of late years a vast number of western farms farm has pasted into the ownership of eastern residents Jenta through mortgage foreclosures fore closures there is being developed an aim indication inclination on the part of these owners to get rid of these hold logs ingo and to such the united states state investor utters a word of warning that should have a wider effect than upon merely the to which it la in directed that paper points out that real estate values in the west went are greatly depressed BB as a result of last years year panic and in many localities it is difficult to find purchasers at any cost coat a state of e affairs clairs that is being taken advantage of by shar abar pers to frighten timid in lioves tors over their western farm lands at merely nominal priam the investor then takes up an argument on this tall line these western farm lands are worth something today and later on they will be worth a great deal more the success of the mont meat in them all depends on the ability of the present holders to carry them until times improve there Is in every reason to believe that the wont that oan can be apprehended in connection with the western situation has been fully discounted in the drop in rew real 6 state estate prices which already has taken p place a 0 e prices are bound to be low for several years but there is good reason to belleve believe with an upward tendency the financial depression in the he united states will undoubtedly keep immigration down to a low point for a considerable period the fact however must ever be kept jn in mind that this country Is the center toward which the population of the whole worlie is tec ding coming years therefore must inevitably wit it ness a strong demand for farm lands in the united states in this connection it is well to bear in mind that about all thorgood government land has hag bien been disposed of and that farms are not go lofto to be obtained as an cheap in the f future re as in the post past other things be tg g equal A great deal Is being said I 1 9 this time regarding the sharp competition which the american farmer to in going to encounter in the future as the result of the opening up of new agri cultural regions in various parts of the be world it can bs be safely said however that in the lorg loing run this country will be able hold its own temporarily the american agriculturist may expert nod hardship but it is in idle to attempt to remonstrate emon strate that america to is about 0 take a second place as the great food producing country of the world whatever may be the status of their investments today it can be safely asserted that five years hence bence will witness prices considerably in excess of those now obtainable among those who ate are in position to 6 grap the situation there can be no doubt as to the soundness of the ad atoe ak given it to is valuable counsel to thaes the who by lending money on farm lands in the west went have come into possession of them at comparatively low prices it would be hard sones sense on the tee part of those western men who have not lost their lands in that manner to apply the reasoning of the investor to their own condition and while this to IB applicable to the west generally it la Is specially not BO to utah with th the conditions that exist here and of necessity must surround aur round us ua in the near future the farm lands of utah generally must appreciate in III value and therefore their owners should hold bold on to them so far as practicable |