Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-03
REAL ESTATE MANS DREAM.
buys Last Lot On Most Crowded Spot
on Earth, But Hasn't Collateral.

OEedhlHS ABOUT the pncnOmenaI
value of real estate in the crowded
parts of Manhattan island" said the
real estate man, Il had a dream last
night of a place where land was so
valuable that it made land here seem
like acreage property.
This place was on an isthmus be-
tween the two homisphercs, a narrow
strip of land that was the most crowd.
ed spot on earth. There was just one
street along through this isthmus, and
all creation that passed from one hem
sphere to the other had to pass along
this thoroughfare
Sure, this was a pace to do bust
ness, IL there ever was one, and by
gracious there was a vacant lot on the
great isthmus thoroughtare. just one
vacant lot, with a sign stuck up: For
Sale, to Close an Estate Inquire of
3o-and-SC'
And Of course, l sort of saunters
into the Office indicated on the sign
light away. aad says to the man
there:
What are you asking for that lot
down there at 22?" And he says:
"A million dollars a front foot.
How much is there of it?' | asked
him, and he says:
Seventy feet. and l says:
We'll, I'll take it,, just like that,
because | knew it was a bargain;
never'd been offered at that price in
the world. knew, except to close an
es' ate. and the only wonder to me was
hat somebody hadn't snapped it up
before ca re along.
so | bought The only vacant lot on
the great III linus thorouShfare, and
The man sad ked have the papers
made out right away and | could drop
in at 8 O'CLOCK tie next morning and
nay the money ard he'd hand over the
deed; and then ! went out and stood
on the Sidewalk and saw those wond-
Nrful mu.titudeS Of all tie peoples of
The earth passing in these amazing
proccssiCns; crowds chat made the
necple passing on Brcad@ay and
II. th avenue Ne3 York. seem ike the
ines of stra sg.er5 wor.ilg their way
ut along to s02c county fair; and
zen | goes down to that va,aut lot
It 20, my lot. AID stanl3 there and
;aes en- go by from there, and pats
.aysalf on the back and says to myself:
We'll, sen, thank goodness, you've
finally hit up on something that you're
2oing to make something on; large
money
And l was conCratulating myself
like that. watching the people go by,
when all Of sudden it struck me that
II hours was a pretty short time for
me to raise $70,000,0OO in, with me a
goc1 ways from home; for this was
cash sale, you understand, cash on de-
live " OF the deed, and | knew per-
fectly well that I'd find a string of
men waiting in the Office in the morn
ing. any one of them ready to snap
this bargain if / wasn't there with the
money, and / suppose it must have
been worrying over how l was going
to get the S70,000,000 together in that
time that woke me up"-New York
Sur.
The cattle industry of the state of
Talnlipas is coming to the front. One
Stockman and commission man alone
lsartolo Rodriguez, shipped $4,000
head last year to Cuba and Yucatan,
which amounted to $1,5OO,OOO. He
has a fine ranch near the City OF
Tampico called Monte Alto, with 300
head of COWS and bulls, costing about
$500 head, imported from the United
States and Switzerland Careful es.
innate made by the shippers to the
no,th of Tampico places the total
number Of cattle and horses in that
area at 00.000.-Mexican Herald.
An Injury to Business.
The saloon injuries the business
prosperity of the country. There
was great cry few years ago of
"over-production" but the real
cause was under-consumption. Men
who spend the greater part of their
wages for liquor cannot buy clothing,
boots, shoes. household goods and
luxuries. Hence the more liquor is
sold, the less of groceries, dry goods,
clothing, furniture, etc. Hench In
this way the saloon Injuries every
legitimate business. The prohibi-
ton of this traffic would mean a
great increase in every business ex-
cept the saloon business.