Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-04-05
CHAPTER Xvl.--contlnued.

you see, I give the value to the
band by building the roads. Then l
Sell the land and &c: 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 1t. I'm
going to get 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
Yer. I can fill and dredge and put in
y 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
10 San Francisco. That means factory
ntes. 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,
5cr I'll 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 too? There's
two water companies in Oakland now.
fighting like cats and dogs and both
shout broke. What metropolis needs
d good water system. They can't
give 1t. They're stick-in-the-muds. I'll
gcbble them up and deliver the right
article to the city. There's money
aAere, too-money everywhere. Every
ahing works in with everything else.
Each improvement makes the value of
everything else Jump up. It's people
ahat. 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 crowd
10 herd. Look at it. Just look at it!
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, it won't be
sne of these wildcat land booms. 1t
rfll be legitimate. Twenty years
4yom now there'll be million people
On this side the bay. Another thing
b hotels. There isn't decent one In
the town. I'll build q couple of up-to-
aate ones that'll make item sit up and
take notice. l won't care if they don't
Jay for years. Their effect will more
IMAM give me my money back out of
the other holdings. And. oh, yes, I'm
going to plant eucalyptus. millions Of
xhem, cn these hills"
"But how are you going to do it,"
Dede asked. "You haven't enough
ssoney for all that you've planned"
I've ..drty million. and If need
more can borrow on the land and
ssher things. Interest on mortgages
Wons anywhere near eat up the In
crease in lend values, and I'll be SELL
Ag land hight along"
II the weeks that followed. Day.
Night was busy man. 1t meant quick
1Ork on colossal scale, for Oakland
sBd the adjacent country was not
SLOW 20 feet the tremendous buying.
But Daylight had the ready cash and
u had always been his policy to
strike quickly. Before the others
eould get the warning of the boom, he
.gietly accomplished many things. At
he 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
Asry sites. Daylight was rushing fran.
SAises through the city council. cap
Aaring the two exhausted water COM
Danies and the eight or nine inde-
1cndent street railways, and getting
IBIS grip on the Oakland Greek and
IA hoy tiNe-landa fnr his dock svafnA