| Show I 1 A LEAF OF experience THE EDITORS OWN in the year of 1890 ye ed tor filed on a piece of land on the open prairies ot western nebraska I 1 try and in order to make a living and attend high school it was necessary that he go somewhere to work each year when school closed one good crop was raised in the six years of residence from a well settled country it became practically an open prairie again after proof I 1 held the acres for about five years and paid taxes on it then decided that any thing else would be better than land the and sold it for throwing in a couple of town lots A jones a dealer in real estate and money loam r was the buyer years have rolled by since then years for which we have no regrets but things have changed in a letter from mr jones the other day among other things he said I 1 see now when it is too late where we all fell down gave our lands away today lands are selling from 20 to oo 00 dollars per acre that we could not give away 10 years ago never saw the line dave B snider over south that a few years ago begged ne to take his stuff and let him go free and I 1 begged him to hold on and not thaw the plunder on me as I 1 feared it would break me up in business he did hold on and last year sold out paid all his debts has acres of land left and 10 00 in cash left for his old age slingluff on top of the hill sout sold out and others edve sold it since at 35 per acre think of it land I 1 sold for 1 00 per acre and glad to be rid of it is now belling for 25 to SO dollars had you stayed right here things would have come your way as well as the moving around the moral to this is hold to your land irrigated land js cheap in castle valley but it will not always be so not many years in the future 1 ind here will be worth double 01 what it is now if you don t make a cent iside from the raise in the price of your land m the next ten years you will have made money there are goo 1 markets here and the land is pro get it into the best cultivation possible and hold onto it |
