Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-09-26

tnree-QudELeFS OF tue tClICi0.a b0kOWs OU
the fat land bordering the bay, lay
Oakland, and across the bay was San
Francisco Between the two cities
they could see the white ferry-boats
on the water. Around to their right
was Berkeley. and to their left the
scattered villages between Oakland
and San Leandro Directly in the fore.
ground was Piedmont, with its desul.
tory dwellings and patches ofsfarming
land, and from Piedmont the land
rolled down in successive waves upon
{ Oakland.
+; Look at It," said Daylight. extend.
ing his arm In sweeping gesture.
"a hundred thousand people there,
and no reason there shouldn't be half
million. There's the chance to make
five people grow where one grows
now. Here's the scheme in a nutshell.
Why don't more people live IN Oak.
land? No good service with San Fran
cisco, and. besides, Oakland is asleep.
It's whole lot better place to live in
than San Francisco. Now, suppose
buy in all the street railways Of Oak.
land, Berkeley, Alameda, San Laandro,
and the rest-bring them under one
head with competent management?
Suppose l cut the time to San Fran
cisco one-half by building big pier
out there almost to Goat Island and
establishing ferry system with MOD.
ern up-to-date boats? Why, folks will
want to live over on this side Very
good. They'll need land on which to
build. 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 tho roads. That
will make the land Jump UP. Then
I'll sell the land as fast as the folks
will want to buy because of the i'm
proved ferry system and transporta.
ton facilities.
You see. give the value to the
land by building the roads. Then /
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. Can't lose. And
there's all sorts Of millions In it. Tn
going to get my hands on some Of that
water front and, the tidelan Take
between where Pm going to build my
pier and the old pier. It's shallow wa
ter. can fill and dredge and putin
system of docks that will handle
hundreds of ships. San Francisco,s
water front is congested 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
to San Francisco. That means factory
sites. That means me buying In the
factory sites before anybody guesses
the cat Is going to jump, much less,
which way. Factories mean tens oe
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 Ill come
pretty close to owning the watershed.
Why not the waterworks too There's
W. WotSAfSSOAApnulSS8l III MARKHAM uOWts
fighting like cats and dogs and both
about broke. What metropolis needs
Is q good water system. They can't
give it. They're acknowledgements. I'll
gobble them up and deliver the right
article to the city There's money
there. too money 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 4
ger the crowd that herds Ii one place.
the more valuable Is the real estate
And this Is the very place for crowd
TO herd. Look at It. Just look at It'll
You could never find q Amer site for
great city All It needs is the herd,
and I'll stampede a couple Of hundred
thousand people in here inside two
years. And what's more, 1t won't be 1
one Of these wildcat land booms. It
VIII &c Twenty years