LANDOLOGY 11 



POPULATION MAKES LAND VALUES. More actual settlers 



are taking up their 



homes on the lands of Marinette County each year than are moving 

 into any other five counties in Wisconsin. The population of 

 Marinette County is increasing by leaps and bounds. Over 2500 

 farmers from the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, 

 Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Southern Wisconsin, have 

 purchased land in Marinette County in recent years. You are well 

 aware of the fact that it is the increase of population which has the 

 most to do with the increase in land values. In this regard, no 

 other upper Wisconsin county can make such a showing as 

 Marinette. 



WHAT OTHERS HAVE DONE, YOU CAN DO. Nine men in 



every ten in 



any rural community who have accumulated more money than the 

 average have done it by buying cheap land, and either developing 

 it or holding it, and their success is generally in proportion to the 

 quantity of land they bought, Look around you, and you will be 

 surprised how many men have made their fortunes by this method. 

 Go through any settled farming community and note the comfort- 

 able homes, talk with the farmers who own them and ask how they 

 obtained them. Most of them will tell you that they settled on the 

 land when it was cheap and the land made a good income for them 

 from the day they bought it. More people settling in the same 

 locality brought about the increase in population which, without 

 any other cause, was sufficient to multiply the value of the land 

 until the owner was rich. 



OPPORTUNITIES OF TODAY. Recently the Saturday Evening 



Post said in an editorial, "The 



man who wants a farm that is already making good money must 

 pay a round price. If he is willing to buy the raw material of a 

 farm and build up the finished product he can still get fairly cheap 

 land. In that direction some of the best agricultural speculations 

 lie." 



Any farmer who takes good unimproved land and develops it 

 can become rich in a few years. That is just what thousands are 

 doing today and what you can do. 



ACT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. Your own judgment is suffi- 



cient to tell you that the 



facts we have set forth are the absolute truth. You who are work- 

 ing for another should work for yourself. Ask any man sixty 

 years of age who has worked in a city factory all his life what he 

 would do if he could live his life over. Nine times out of ten he 

 would tell you that he would have taken up a tract of land in his. 

 youth and would be worth from $10,000 to $20,000 today instead 

 of being almost penniless in his old age. 



