The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-30

The bell was rung to get up, T. Mont gomery Price was the ringer
 No matter how scientifically a boom may be projected, it cannot amount to anything unless it has these three things-a boomer, boomees, thing boomed. Boomee may not be very ele- gant, but a reference to analogy will serve to indicate what is meant. Now, the Galindo boom began with it's boom- CT, T. Montgomery Price The boomees were the consumptiVes from the east, who were now spending their money al- together south of Tehachipa Pass, which, by the way, you may spell six different ways and still be right every time. The thing boomed was, of course, land-it always is. A boom cannot have anything to do with land already built up. It needs the raw material of pasture and trodden common, cut of which to make It's additions and town lots and special reservations for the university and the public library and the home for the aged Ghere must al- ways be some such provision for the original consumptives, who live to be nonagenarians or so). This was the Belden tract.
 On the outskirts of Galindo was a competing railroad, that is, it would be competing road if only it could suc- ceed in getting to the end it should be- gin at or even to the end it should end at. It could not reach the bay because if stopped abruptly at the right of way of the other road, which it could not trespass on There was ano her end of this railroad somewhere up in the hoot- hills, about five miles away. It stopped just at the edge of creek which 1t was not financially able to bridge. The creek was six inches deep by twenty two feet wide There were no trains on this railroad-it lad no rolling stock It was known as the Penobscot and Pa cific. It had one terminus about two hundred feet from San Francisco Bay, which is to all intents and purposes the Pacific; the unabridged creek at which the track stopped was rather more than three thousand miles from the Pe- nobscot. It was not worth while build ing the three thousand mile stretch un- til some method had been devised of getting across the right of way of the rival road. The Penobscot and Pacific could be discovered by man with a scythe who was willing to cut a swath across old man Belden's pasture
 That pasture was transformed into the thing boomad. After an option had been placed on it, it became the Belden tract with literature and an art of it's own. Autographs began to appear in which it was shown that every rouni of tea from the Orient to America and Eu- rope must pass through the BeIdsn tract. In map which would do credit to a geographical society or a transcon- tinental railway system the Belden tract was shown at the center of the civilized world. A view of the plaza of the Belden tract exhibited the Fremont monument, the soldiers monument, a dozen other monuments, the fine ia cade of the high school a corner of the library. 1t was work of art the ar t1st was paid in lots, all corners in good locations. This map and view became a series as the idea came to T. Mont gomery Price. There was series of pamphlets as well. The material was sent everywhere to all parts of the country. The most brilliant stroke of this genius was to establish a depot in Boston for the Belden tract boom lite rature. The agent in charge devoted his time to obtaining lists of the sick rom druggists and drivers of physi. clans carriages. Then whenever the temperature stood at forty or under at breakfast time the noon mail brought to the sick package of Belden tract literature and pictures.
 There were other agents along the great transcontinental lines. Any where on west-bound trains after leav ing Omaha, Kansas City or New Or leans the slightest sound of a dry hack ing cough would bring courteous Bel den tract agent, with oranges and ba- nanas fresh from the tract T. Mont gomery Price even made a deal with