The San Francisco call., 1909-11-06
DEVELOPING LANDS
ON TIE PENINSULA
Dingee Park Owners Prepare
for Growth of the Pretty
Wooded Tract

The great field of real estate invest
ment now opening up down the PENN
sula, in and around Redwood City, is by
no means confined TO the favored few.
While the railroads have invested mill
lions in the erection of the Dumbarton
cutoff and in the construction of the
Bay Shore line, and while capitalists
have bought up manufacturing sites in
Redwood City preparatory to doing
manufacturing business in Redwood,
there are at the same time hundreds
of small investors who are destined to
do proportionately well.
Back in the days when lots in the
Richmond district sold for 5000 it re-
quired the same amount of courage it
now takes to buy peninsula residential
lots. And yet today there are thou
sands of people still grubbing along for
living. kicking themselves because
they failed to take advantage of the
5000 lots of 10 years ago. 1t will be the
same old story down the peninsula, and
those who hesitate will step back for
those who buy and make the money.
Il have bought lots in great many
subdivision propositions said W. c.
vraig of Berkeley. recently, but was
never presented with better or a surcr
money making investment in residen-
tial lots than / found in Dingee park
at Redwood City. The property is a
natural park, covered with hundreds of
magnificent oaks, and. to my mind, IS
destined to become the most popular of
all the peninsula suburban tracts. Red
wood City has a great future and as it
grows Dingee park lots will rapidly be-
come more valuable. Therefore, a man
who buys now kills two birds with one
stone, for he gets an ideal place TO
build himself home and at the same
time gets an investment that will reap
a good profit am advising my friends
to buy now, even if they can not afford
to build for two or three years. for
when Dingee park is built UP their un-
improved lots will be worth more than
the house would cost"
H C. Tuchsen, representative of Bald
win & Howell at Redwood City. reports
that the contract has been completed
for the 100000 gallon reservoir back of
Dingee park. This reservoir was
erected for the benefit of the residents
of Dingee park and Redwood City and
is one of the finest in the state. 1t oc-
cupies natural site. $50 feet higher
than Redwood. thus insuring a heavy
pressure at all times
The work of laying eight inch mains
along Eighth street in Dingee park
from the reservoir through the park
and into the main section of Redwood
City is rapidly progressing. The city is
also laying four inch mains on all the
cross streets of Dingee park and a six
inch main is already installed in Four
teenth street. The water system of
Dingee park has been so planned that
the water in the pipes will be moving
constantly. The new reservoir is of
steel reinforced concrete with cement
floor. II is one of the best examples of
cement construction in California
Sales in the Levy Tract
Captain Obermeyer, the agent of the
Levy tract, reports that sales are
steadily increasing and that so per
cent of the purchasers intend to build
Immediately. The yisitacion valley
trolley line, giving crosstewn facilities
between the Mission district and yisi-
tacion. runs within a block Of the Levy
tract and this has materially aided the