Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-22

it. Daylight secretly bought the chief Republican newspaper and the chief Democratic organ, and moved boldly into his new offices. Of necessity, they were on a large scale, occupying four floors of the only modern office build ing in the town-the only building that wouldn't be torn down later on, as Daylight put 1t. There was de- partment after department, a score of them, and hundreds of clerks and Stenographers As he told Dede:--
 I've got more companies than you can shake a stick it. There's the Ala meds & Contra Costa Land Syndicate, Sae Consolidated Street Railways. the Yerba Buena Ferry Company, the United Water Company, the Pied mont Realty Company, the Fairview and Portola Hotel Company, and half a dozen more that I've got to refer 10 a notebook to remember. There's the Piedmont Laundry Farm. and Rod- wood Consolidated QuarTies. Starting in with our quarry. I just kept a-going til ! got them all And there's the ship-building company I ain't got a name for yet. Seeing as had to have feTry-boats, l decided to build them myself. They'll be done by the time the pier Is ready for them
 For months Daylight was buried in work The outlay was terrific, and there was nothing coming in. Beyond a general rise in land values, Oakland had not acknowledged his irruption OF the financial scene. The city was waiting for him to show what he was going 10 do, and he lost no tine about t. The best skilled brains on the market were hired by him for the di;. icrent branches of the work Initial mistakes he had no patience with, and he was determined to start right, as when he engaged Wilkinson, almost doubling his big salary and brought him out from Chicago to take charge of the street railway organization. Night and day the road gangs toiled On the streets. And night and day piIe-drivers hammered the big piles down into the mud Of San Francisco Bay. The pier was to be three miles long. and the Berkeley hills were de nuded of whole groves Of mature eucalyptus for the piling.
 At the same time that his electric roads were building out through the hills, the hay-heids were being sur veyed and broken ID into city squares, with here and there, according to best modern methods, winding bouleyards and strips of park Broad streets, well graded. were made, with sewers and wster-pipes ready laid, and ma cadamized from his own Quarries. Ce- ment sidewalks were also laid, so that all the purchaser had to do was 10 select his lot and architect and start building. The quick service Of Day lights new electric roads into Oak land made this big district immediate ly accessible, and long before the fer " system was in operation hundreds of residences were going up The profit on this land was enormous. In a day, his onslaught of wealth had turned open farming country into one of the best residential districts of the city.
 But this money that flowed iu upon him was immediately poured back into his other investments The need for electric cars was so great that he installed his own shops for building them. But no matter what pressure was on Daylight. his Sundays he re- served for his riding in the hills It was not the rainy winter weather, however that brought these rides with Dede 10 an end. One Saturday afternoon in the office she told him not to expect to meet her next day and, when he pressed for an expiana- ton
 I've sold Nab"
 Daylight was speeches. for the mo ment. Her act meant one of so many serious things that he couldn't classi- fy it. It smacked almost of treschery. She might have met with financial dis aster. It might be her way of letting him know she had seen enough of him. Or
 What's the matter?7 he managed to ask.
 Ceuldn aHCrd TO keep hef Hith hay forty-fiye dollars a ton, Dade answered. My brothers expenses have been higher. as well, and ! was driven to the conclusion that since | could not afford both, I'd better let : the mare go and keep the brother" Who bought herr" he asked.
 Dede's eyes flashed in the way long since familiar to him when she was angry.
 Don't you dare buy her back for me" she cried And don't deny that that was what you had in mind"
 'I wish you would reconsider, Miss Mason" he said softly. Not alone ! for the mares sake, but for my sake. Money don't cut any fee in this. For me to buy that mare wouldn't mean as much as it does to most mem to seod a bouquet of flowers or box of candy to a young lady, There's no body | feel ehummy with except you, and you know how little we've chum- | med-once a week. if it didn't rain, on Sunday .f2 I've grown kind Of to de- pend on svou. II you'd just let me buy