The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-02-06

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good They'll need land 81 which 10
huiid So ms bus sin the land.
Bnt The land : cheap now. NSls Be'
ftslse IT'S Al the country, "a re
| roads. no quick comniuni ton no:
body guessing that the electric 6oads
are coming. IN build the roads That
WIN make the land jump or Then.
lam sell the land as fast Us The folks
will want to buy. because Of the ms
proved ferry system and transpo
ton facilities
You see. give the value u the
land by building the roads. Then Z
sell the land and get that value haell
and after that, there's the roads alll
carrying folks back and forth and.
earning big money. Cant lose and
there's all sorts OF millions In 4 I'm
going to get my, hands on some Of that
water front and the tlde.lands, AXE
between where I'm going TO build lny
pier and the old pier It's shallow w
ter, / can al and dredge and ppt ms
system OF docks that viii handle
hundreds Of ships. San Franclsep.s
water front is congested. No more
room for ships. With hundreds q
ships loading and unloading on this,
side right into the freight cars of
three big railroads. factories win
start up over here instead OF crossing
to- San Francisco. That means factory
sites. That means me buying ia the
factory sites before anybody gnesses
the cat is going to jump. much less,
which way. Factories mean tens
thousands Of worklngmen and Their
families. That means more hoIsbs I
and more land, and that means me, ]
for Ill be there to sell them the land.
Then there's the water I'll come
pretty close TO owning the watershed
Why not the waterworks too7 There's
two water companies in Oakland nov,
fighting like cats and dogs and both
about broke. What a metropolis needs
is a good water system. They can't
give 1t. They're. stlckin.the-ninds 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, B
the more valuable is the real estate,
And this is the very place for q crowd
to herd. Look at It. Just look at i'll
You could never find a finer site for a.
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
one Of these wildcat land blooms. II
Will be legitimate. Twenty years
from now there1I be a million people
on this side the bay. Another thing
Is hotels. There isn't decent one in
the town. I'll build a couple Of up,to.
date snes that'll make them situp and
take notice. ! won't care II they don't
pay for years. Their effect wilidmaYp
than give me my money back out Gf
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 it2s
Dede asked you haven't enough
money for all that you've planned"
give thirty million, and II / need
more can borrow on the land and
other things. Interest on mortgages
won't anywhere near eat up the In
crease in land values. and III be sell.
Ing land right along"
In the weeks that followed Day
light was busy man. 1t meant quick
work 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
1t had always been his policy 10
strike quickly. Before the Others
could get the warning OF the boom, he
quietly accomplished many things Az
he same time that his agents were
corner lots and entire
blocks in the heart Of the business
section and the waste lands for fac;
ory sites, Daylight was rushing tran.
'hises through the city council cap
uring the two exhausted water COM.
oanies and the eight or nine inde-
pendent street railways, and getting,
ais grip on the Oakland Creek and
he bay tide-lands for his dock system.
The tlde.lands had been in litigation
or years, and he took the bull bg the
out the private owners
md at the same time leasing from thei
lily fathers. hBy the time that Oak
and was aroused by this unprecedent
I'd activity in every direction and was
excitedly the meaning 81
I, Daylight secretly bought the ciieg
Republican newspaper and the chief
Democratic organ, and moved boldly. {
nto his new Offices OF necessity, they
we're on a large scale, occupying four
ioors Of the only modern office builds
ng in the town-the only building
hat wouldn't be torn down later ON.
is Daylight put II. There was de-
'artment after department, ascore OF
hem, and hundreds Of clerks and
'tenographers. AS he told Dede:-
, I've got more companies than You
an shake A stick II There's fhe Ais,