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Show LAM) TOO HK;fI HE SAYS price at which some of our land has lieen sold. Whim a prospective land liuyer reads that farms have been sold here for $200 an acre and more he says to himself, "If I have to pay that much for a farm, I will go to Utah, Davis, or Cache county where I can get it just as cheap and in an old settled district," and the Delta counlry is given the go-by. What Is the reaction on the local farm qwn-er? qwn-er? "Gee," he says "If Smith can get $173 per acre for his farm, I ought to get $175 per acre," and he boosts his price another $50 or $60 an acre. The individual or company with unimproved un-improved land boosts their land $10 or $15 an acre, all of which acts as a check on the sale of land and the settlement ot the district. Better advertise ad-vertise how cheaply land can be bought here. You wouldn't expect to induce settlers to come in if you advertised ad-vertised a high price for groceries, dry goods, farm machinery etc. The price of farm land must go down or you will not get a dozen settlers set-tlers into the district within the next five years. The non-resident "and owner is going go-ing to lose out if he doesn't cut his price in half and let go. What with the county tax, drainage tax and water wa-ter tax every year, a run-down farm and a delinquent tenant, the longer he holds on the more he will lose. Better sell out for a good team and a milk cow than hang on another year This applies with still stronger force to the man with unimproved land. ' I would give the same advice to the man who has paid a high price for his land anywhere around $200 an acre! and is heavily in debt for it. You can't pay heavy interest charges, charg-es, taxes and livinjg expenses and anything any-thing on the principal with $1 wheat, 15c alfalfa seed, $10 hay and $6 or $8 beets and beef, hogs, eggs, butter etc at present prices. You may be able to sell your farm for what you paid for It in five years, but you will be broke before that. The man who isn't must have an exceptionally ex-ceptionally good farm and be a mighty migh-ty hard worker and good farmer. You may say this is a rather discouraging dis-couraging picture, but it does not apply to the farmer who is not too heavily in debt or to the prospective settler who can get land at its real value. These are some of the advantages 'we have to offer prospective settlers, but if we can't offer cheap lands, al" our efforts to get them will ho In vain. Don't get settlers hofe under misrepresentations, mis-representations, false promises or raise false hopes. They will soon be-'come be-'come discouraged and dissatisfied and you will have on your hands a bunch of knockers rather then boosters. Fully advertise the big crops raised, rais-ed, but don't encourage the idea that a man can go onto a piece of raw land and in a couple of years be raising rais-ing 60 bushels of wheat, 20 tons of beets and five bushels of alfalfa seed to the acre. Don't lie about the country and exaggerate too much. There are enough favorable things to say about the country that are absolutely true to bring in a class of settlers that will stay and help build up this country. coun-try. But don't forget that the first thing is. cheap land. N. B. DRESSER. 600.8 feet to corner No. 4. Thence North 68 degs. 51 mins, E 1 065.1 feet to cornor No. 1, the place of beginning, containing 14.391 acres, and fi rming n portion of tt. '.insurvpycJ lart of Township 1 28 South, Range 12 West, Salt Lake Base and Meridian. The names of the adjoining and conflicting claims as shown by the plat of survey, are: Waterloo No. 2 lode, Survey No. 6238 Boggs Mint lode, Survey No. 6236, and Mineral Queen iOde, Survey Sur-vey No. 606.,. The area of said Jupiter Fraction lode, as described above, which is in conliict with he Waterloo No. 2 lode, Survey No. 6238 and Mineral Queen lode Survey Sur-vey No. 6063 is hereby expressly excluded from this application fcr patent, the net area of said Jupiter Fraction lode applied for, being 12.366 acres. I hereby direct that this notice be published in the Beaver County News, published at Milford, Beaver County Utah. GOULD B. BLAKELY, Register. First Pub. June 1, 1921 Last Publication, July 27, 1921 |