Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-22
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Look at it," said Daylight, extend ing his arm in a sweeping gesture. "A hundred thousand people there, and no reason there shouldn't be half a million. There's the chance to make five people grow where one grows now Here's the scheme in 6 nutshell Why don't more people live in Oak. land? No good service with San Fran cisco, and. besides. Oakland is asleep. It's a whole lot better place to live in than San Francisco. Now, suppose buy in all the street railways of Oak land, Berkeley, Alameda, San Leandro. and the restoring them under one head with competent management? Suppose l cut the time to San Fran cisco one-half by building a big pier out there almost to Goat Island and establishing a ferry system with mod ern upto-date boats? Why. folks will want to live over on this side Very good. Theyn need land on which to bulls. So. first I buy up the land. But the lands cheap now Why? Be cause it's in the country, no electric roads. no quick communication, no- body guessing that the electric roads are coming. I'll build the roads That will make the land jump up. Then I'll sell the land as fast as the folks Vill want 10 buy because of the i'm proved ferry system and transporta- lion facilities.
 You see, I give the value to the IsRd by building the roads Then I sell the land and get that value back. and after that. there's the roads, all carrying folks back and forth and earning big money Cant lose. And there's all sorts of millions in it. I'm going to get my hands on some of that water front and the tide-iands Take between where I'm going to build my pier and the old pier It's shallow wa ter. ] can i'll and dredge and put in q system of docks that will handle hundreds of ships San Francisco's water front Is eonEested. No more room for ships With hundreds of ships loading and unloading on this side right into the freight cars of three big railroads, factories will start up over here instead of crossing Co San Francisco That means factory sites. That means me buying in the factory sites before anybody guesses the cat is going 10 jump. much less, which way Factories mean tens Of thousands of workingmen and their families. That, means more houses and more land, and that means me, for I'll be there to sell them the land. Then there's the water. I'll come pretty close 10 owning the watershed. Why not the wateTworks too? There's two water companies in Oakland nov, fighting Ike eats and dogs and both about broke What metropolis needs Is a good water system. They can't give it They're stick-iu -the,mnds TT gobble them up and deliver the right article to the city There's money there. too-mCney everywhere Every thing works in with everything else. Each improvement makes the value Of everything else jump up. It's people that are behind the value. The big ger the crowd that herds in one place, the more valuable is the real estate. And this is the very place for a crowd 10 herd. Look at it. Just look al it! You could never find finer site for a great city All 1t needs is the herd. and m stampede couple of hundred thousand people in here inside two years And what's more. it won't be one Of these wildcat land booms. lt will be legitimate Twenty years from now there1l be a million people on this side the bay Another thing is hotels. There isn't a decent one in the town I'll build a. couple of Up-to- date ones thatW make'them sit up and take notice. I won't care if they don't pay for years. Their effect will 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"
 But how are you going to do it?'' Dede asked. You haven't enough money for sll that you've planned"
 I've thirty million. and if I need more I can borrow on the land and | other things Interest on mortgages vog't anywhere near eat up the in- | crease fin land values, and I'll be sell | ing land right along.
 Tn the weeks that followed, Day light was a busy man. It meant quick
 york on a colossal scale, for oakland and the adjacent country was not slow to feel the tremendous buying But Daylight had the ready cash and it had always been his policy to | strike quickly. Before the others could get the warning of the boom, be | qnietly accomplished many things. At the same time that bis agents were purchasing corner lots and entire | hlocks in the heart Of the business section and the waste lands for fac
 tory sites Daylight was rushing fran shlIsss 4 brough tho city council, cap sfss' {. rSg fgs Q exhausted wafer com
 nkiies ahd tke eight or nine fnde rshdent street railways. and getting ] hk grip on the Oakland Greek and tse bay tideIandsa fof.his dock system ! TAe tidelands had been in litigation ! "a yeas. and lie took the bull by the
 nErns--4gying out the private owners
 kansf k rs se.ne tin,s leasing from the