The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-12-21


thing works in eth everything else
Each Improvement makes The value ~
everything else Jump Up. It's people
that are behind The valus. The hix-
ger TIE crowd thnt herds In one place
the mere valuable IL The real estate
And th.~ - the very place for . crowd
20 her4 Look at g. Just look ut IT.
You could never End . nneg ssts for =
great city AL II needs In the herd.
aid II! stampede q couple Of hundred
thCuEaud people 10 here inside two
yeas And what's more. IL won't BE
ore q these wildcat land booms Il
viii be legitimate. Twenty years
from nov there1i DO q million people
OF this side the bay. Another thing
IL hotels. There isE't decent one IN
the town I'll build q couple OF up-to-
date ones that1I make them sit up and
take notice | won't care II they don't
pay for years. Their effect wfIl more
than give me my money back out OF
the other holdings. And. oh. yes. I'm
going to plant eucalyptus. millions Of
them. on these hills
oAI LIZ" oAS scS SSAAS ~ NO
Dede asked You haven't enough
money for all that you've planned"
I've thirty million. and II need
more I can borrow on the land and
other things. Interest on mortgages
won't anywhere near eat up the in
crease In land values, and I'll be sell
ing land right along"
In the weeks that followed. Day
light was a busy man. It meant quick
work on a colossal scale. for Oakland
and the ad. cent country was not
slow to feel the tremendous buying.
But Daylight had the ready cash and
1t had always been his policy to
strike quickly. Before the others
could get the warning OF the boom. he
the same time that his agents were
purchasing corner lots and entire
blocks in the heart of the business
section and the waste lands for fac
tory SITES. Daylight was rushing fran
chises through the city council, cap
turing the two exhausted water COM
panies and the eight or nine indie
his grip on the Oakland Creek and
the bay tide-lands for his dock system.
The tide-lands had been in litigation
for years, and he took the bull by the
horns--buying out the private owners
and at the same time leasing from the
city fathers. By the time that Oak
land was aroused by this unprecedent-
ed activity in every direction and was
questioning excitedly the meaning OF
1t, Daylight secretly bought the chief
Republican newspaper and the chief
Democratic organ, and moved boldly
into his new offices. OF necessity, they
were on 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 it. There was de-
partment after department, a score Of
them, and hundreds of clerks and
Stenographers. AS he told Dede:-
1--we got more companies than you
can shake a stick it. There's the Ala
media & Contra Costa Land Syndicate,
the 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
dozen more that I've got to refer to
a notebook to remember. There's the
Piedmont Laundry Farm, and Red
wood Consolidated Quarries. Starting
in with our quarry, Just kept a-going
till l got them all. And there's the
ship-building company l amt got q
name for yet. Seeing as I had to have
ferry-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 net acknowledged his Eruption
~ 10 Gr"G":at scene. The city was
~NoW what he was
gcing to do, and he lost no time abou,
it. The best skilled brains on the
market were hired by him for the diff
ferent 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
pile-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-felds were being sur
veyed and broken up into city squares,
with here and there, according to best
modern methods. winding boulevards
and strips Of park. Broad streets,
well graded. were made. with sewers
and water-pipes ready laid. and ma
cadamized from his own ouarries. Co