, 1886-12-30

An Old Real Estate Dealer iteiatcs a
Iiit of Ills INp.rIencc-now scheme.
Arc Sometimes Fixed up-An Illus
t%ration.
A recent arrival here Is Town Let Brady.
who has earned his name bv his long
lcareer as n dealer in town lots. The old
man IS not looking as prosperous as he
used TO, and il is evident that times are
not as they were with him. Relating his
experiences last night, he said: ''The town
site business isn't what ii was. Before
the railroads came into this countr | had
no difficulty in calling the turn on u town
every time. | knew just where they
would be built. l have made the loca-
ton of towns a study for more than thirty
years. When | go into II new country
Just look the ground over, and, taking
everything into consideration, | soon
come to the conclusion where the town
ought to be. Ninety-nine times in n hun
dred, if nothing out of the ordinary hap
pens to prevent, the town will grow Just
where it ought to. I've seen that tried
and | know. When | have located the
town site and made arrangements with n
few interested parties to take hold of the
matter my duty is done. | have always
made it a point to take a Jew lots, gener-
any vi Nit toIltTSf anu nave ltll inc rest
TO the other fellows. | have been called
in more than u hundred times by men
who were about to locate a town and who
wanted the judgment Of an expert on the
place to be chosen. In .such cases | al
ways demand about four of the best lots
in town, and | get them, too.
so al APART
you can set it down us n fact that
towns in II new country Will be abcut SO
far apart. The lay of the land has some
thing to do with the matter. but not SO
much as many people suppose. l know
some of the best towns in the west that
are on about the poorest sites that could
be selected. You've got to take II great
many other things into view. Now, if
there is no railroad You must get a MAJ
and find out about how the roads are run
ming, how far it is to the nearest one, and
from what direction the first road to he
built in the natural order of things will
come from. When you've got that set
tied take Il trip around the countr and
find out if it Will support II population and
what kind of IA population. After that
see the owners of the land lying around
and try and fix up n scheme with them.
If they take kindly to the notion of lay
ing out Il town You will not have any
more trouble. 1t is easy enough to get
BN'lA1 4HA'it7tNiA III IL 4tM NbNN utter YOU
have found n place for it on the map.
Before the days of railroads out here |
made money, but ] cant do il now.
II had my pile invested in the owl Of
Arboriale down here, and it was about
the finest layout Tor II city that | ever
saw; but when the railroad came through
the managers put their tracks right
through the owl and announced that
they would have Il station four miles west
of it. Nou sec. they had bought u farm
down there. and they were going to have
n town OF their own. When / heard Of
that | called ON the gentleucn and romon-
strated. ! told them That Arbordalc was
the metropolis of that section and that an
attempt 10 ignore it would bring ruin to
its citizens. particularly me, but they only
laughed and wanted 10 Know about how
much we would pay to have the station
located there,
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