The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-05-24
CHAPTER xvl.-ccntlnued.

you see give the value 10 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 H. I'm
going TO set my hands on some OF that
water front and the tide.lands. Take
between where I'm going TO build my
pier and the old pier. It's shallow wa.
ter. can fill and dredge and put in
q 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 OF
thousands Of workingmen and their
families. That means more houses
and more land. and that means me,
for I'll be there 10 sell them the land.
Then there's the water. I'll come
pretty close 10 owning the watershed
Why not the waterworks too? There's
two water companies In Oakland now,
fighting like cats and dogs and both
about broke What a metropolis needs
10 a good water system. They can't
give II. They're stick.in.the.muds. 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.
ger the crowd that herds in one place.
the more valuable Is the real estate
And this is the vety place for a crowd
10 herd. Look at it, Just look al IL
You could never End finer site for
great city. All II needs is the herd.
and I'll stampede a couple Of hundred
thousand people In here inside two
years. And what's more. IL won't be
one OF these wildcat land booms f.
will be legitimate. Twenty years
from now there'll be a million people
on this side the bay. Another thing
IL hotels. There isn't a decent one In
The town. I'll build a couple OF upto-
date ones thatll make them sit up and
take notice. | won't care II 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 all that you've planned"
I've thirty million. and IL need
more I can borrow on the land and
other things. Interest on mortgages
won't anywhere hear 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 q busy man. II meant quick
work on colossal scale. for Oakland
Ind the adjacent country was not
s!CS TO feel the tremendous buying.
But Daylight had the ready cash and
Il had always been his policy TO
strike quickly. Before the others
nould get the warning OF the boom. he
Npietly accomplished many things. AT
the same time that his agents were
purchasing corner lots and entire
blocks in the heart of the business
s>ction and the waste lands for fac
isry sites. Daylight was rushing fran
discs through the city council. cap
ring the two exhausted water com
pznies and the eight or nine :nde
Jendent street railways. and getting
n grip on the Oakland Creek and
- bay S1ANlAAAs fse nis dock systsP