Canyon City News. (Canyon City, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, December 22, 1905 Page: 1 of 4
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Canyon City New
VOL IX. CANYON CITY RANDALL CO. TEXAS FRIDAY. DECEMBER 221905. NO. 41
CHRISTMAS GIFTS !
We have a nice lot of Christmas Goods indud
ing Albums Card Cases Handkerchief Cases and
lots of other pretty and useful presents for grown
folks also Dolls big ones middle-sized and small
ones and a great variety of other things for the
little people. : : : : :
We have no fancy prices on these Christmas
goods will sell them like we do other things at
our customary small profit and invite you to see
them before making your Holidv purchases.
The Seydler Mer. Co.
CANYON CITY - - TEXAS.
K. W. O'KKKFK
President.
J. I. CAMPBELL
Vice-President.
I. L. HUNT
Cashier.
NO. 7961
THE CANYON NATIONAL BANK.
CAPITAL $30000-PAID IN.-
This Bank Is fully equipped to care for the accounts of individuals
linns and corporations. It respectfully invites correspondence or a
personal Interview with those who contemplate making changes or
opening new accounts. :::::::
R. W. O'KEEFE
W. C. BAIRD
DIKKCTOKS:
J. 1. CAMPBELL
I. L. HUNT
F. P. WILSON.
THE "OUTDOOR"
Registered Hereford Herd
BULL iTirTsER VIC E :
Ten Strike 80109 Majestic Chief lSttOOH
Armour Dale 150843
Stock located in Pasture 1 mile north Canyon City Depot Texas
STOCK FOR SALE
Apply to JOHN HUTSON Canyon Texas.
SEE
OBI
For Lumber Brick Posts
and all sorts of Building
Material-It will pay you.
BURTON-LINGO CO. LBR.
CANYON CITY - - TEXAS.
L G. CONNER
FARMS RANCH LAND CITY PROPERTY
STEERS & STOCK CATTLE.
ft Loans on Real Estate Abstracter and Notary in Office. t
Lands listed with us will he
advertised in ioo periodicals
and listed with ioo or more
local and traveling agents.
Brandon has several good houses
for sale all the way from $400 to
$1500. Why not buy one?
Send The News to a friend.
Visiting Cards This office
has just received a new lot. Will
sell them blank or printed. Call
in and see them.
Aerogram
Ififtb Simfcas Meeting Gcrra
Blanco Hssodatton.
Canyon City Dec. 29-31 1905.
FRIDAY NIGHT.
Song and Prayer Service W. J. McCIain.
Sermon Missionary E. D. Morgan.
SATURDAY 9:30 A. M.
1. Devotional Service Brewer Hail.
2 "Who and what may contribute to the
Success or Failure of a Sunday School?" J.
B. Roberson; W. J. McMin; G. A. Stratton.
Open tor discussion.
. 3. "How may the Spiritual life of our
Churches be quickened?" W. H. McGee;
J. T. Burnett; O. F. Smith.
4. Preaching Bro. Huff.
SATURDAY EVENING.
1. Devotional Service J. W. Ford.
2. "Literature in the Home in the Sunday
School in the Church E. D. Morgan; B. T.
Johnson; W. H. Rayzor.
3. "The best way tothoroughly Evangelize
our new Association." V. O. Dean; H.
Painter.
4. Board Meeting.
SATURDAY NIGHT B. Y. P. U. WORK.
1. Devotional Service W. B. Park.
2. "How may a B. Y. P. U. be made a
Spiritual Force in the Church and Communi-
ty?" O. F. Smith; O C. Harrison.
3. Solo W J. McCIain.
4. Papers by Misses Elizabeth La Grand
and Stella Renfro.
5. Quartette Misses Jessie Long Pauline
Dunbar Messrs. O. C. Harrison and Lon
Gentry.
6. Recitation Miss Columbia Redfearn.
Remarks by all.
SUNDAY.
10 a. m. Sunday School.
11:00 Preaching VV. O. Dean.
3 p. m. B. Y. P. U.
7:00 Preaching.
We shall expect a number from each Church
WHAT MAKES LAND PRICES.
Why Good Land is Higher
in Some Parts of the
World than in
Others The
Panhandle
An Illinois paper the Henry
Republican publishes the fol-
excellent article con-
land price s w hat
makes them and referring to
the Panhandle. It may be in
spired by Illinois people having
"Texas connections" for aught
we know perhaps it is but it is
a good article nevertheless and
deals with the facts as The
News sees them and is not only
worthy of careful study by the
people of Illinois but by us of
Texas who are "lettingthe birds
go." This Illinois paper says:
Tt mav not be known to the
average man why land sells tor
$1 an acre in one part of the
world $10 in another $100 in
another and $1000 in another
nor is it known to many that
land actually does sell in some
parts of the civilized world at
from $800 to $1000 an acre. By
this we do not mean town lands
or even suburban land but
lands which are valued purely
and solely by reason of their
agricultural productiveness.
Since time began and prehis
toric man stirred the soil along
the banks of the Nile in Egypt
land value has been based on
two important principles. They
are first what the land is
worth from a purely productive
standpoint; that is how many
bushels of wheat corn and oats
or how many bales of cotton or
other products it will -raise per
acre. In connection with this
of course th'e accessibility to
market of the crops produced
must be taken into considera-
tion. Second to this as a de
termining factor in land values
and in no wise less important is
the question of population in the
country where the land is situ
ated. For instance l.UUU acres
of as productive land as there
is on the face of the irlobe if
set in the heart of an African
jungle inhabited only by beasts
of nrev and their no less wild
and untamed companions say
age men is not worth and would
not sell for a single dollar.
If that same land could be
transplanted to a great western
range country where the popu
lation was sparse but the bene
tits of civilization enjoyed it
would probably be worth from
$1 to 82 an acre. Transferred
again to smaller pastures and
the population increased and it
would sell for $10 an acre. Cut
it up into farms and as virgin
soil it would sell at from $20 to
830 an acre. Allow a few years
to pass and the productiveness
of the soil demonstrated and
the larger farms reduced in size
by a greater increase of inhabi-
tants and $50 to $60 an acre
will be the ruling prices. In-
creasing the population further
in proportion for instance to
that prevailing in the Mid-
dle Western States of the U. S.
Illinois Iowa Ohio and In-
diana and the same land would
sell for $100 to 8150 an acre.
Transfer it again across the
ocean to the densely populated
sections of Europe in England
Ireland France and Germany
and it would sell for from $300
to 8400 an acre. This compari-
son could be carried on to those
few favored sections of the
globe where the population is
so dense and the products of the
soil so valuable that land readi-
ly sells at from $300 to 81000 an
acre.
A proper understanding of
these laws of value and popula-
tion will enable every man in
the U. S. to lay the foundation
for future wealths TUftiiF.ace
of this old earth has never fipy"--.
creased since it first was whirled
nto space by the Infinite
bland. Man has increased year
by year and century by century.
Not only this but his necessi
ties and his luxuries have in
creased so that today he as an
ndividual requires more tood
and more clothing than ever be-
ore in the history of the world
t is therefore certain that as
time goes on the products or.
the soil will show a gradual in-
crease. iNot that tney win ao
so necessarily from year to
year but from period to period
this increase undoubtedly will
come about. And by it the land
that produces food and clothing
must necessarily increase 111
value.
The citizens of Texas have a
wondertul opportunity. They j
can buy land as productive as'
any on the lace ot this earth at
a price so low that the land will
in a few years pay for itself
and then pay its owner its value
again and again as the years go
by. Furthermore tne man with
small means is enabled to not
only get cheap land but to buy
on easy terms and maite tne
land work with him in. paying
itself out. A farm with a debt
... A . 1 - .
on it in a new country aoes not
denote lack of thrift and enter
prise; on the contrary it shows
that such countries are inhabit
ed by men of nerve and great
foresight. That they realize
the wonderful opportunity of-
fered them in this great state to
become land owners and that
they expect in the future not .
only to sell their products to
the commerce ot the world out
to lend their surplus money
which they have accumulated
with the help of the rich soil of
Texas to those who live in less
fortunate countries.
In no section of Texas today
can the land buyer and home-
seeker find such opportunities
offered him as in the Panhandle v
country. Here lands are com-
paratively very cheap the coun-
try is still new and while well
within the great agricultural
belt of North Texas it offers op-
portunities for money-making
and land purchasing which can
be found iu no section of the
United States as in this western
country. Unlike however
most undeveloped sections the
Panhandle offers the ho.neseek-
er all of those benefits -ot civili-
zation so dearly prized by those
who have children to educate
and desire to live in the midst
of a Christian community.
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