Saturday news., September 26, 1912, Image 6

About Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??

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DAYLIGHT
ly JACK LONDON
Author of "The CaU of the Wild,"
White Fang," "Martin
Eden." etc.
nhutrabou by Dearborn Memll
Bald
I couldn't, but I did It,
and I did It by myself. The dam and
the flume cost me four million. But
you should have seen thatOphlr—pow
er plants, electric lights, and hun
dreds of men on the pay-roll, working
night and day. I guess I do get an
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"I Like You, Mr. Hamlsh, and That
Is All."
Inkling of what you mean by making
a thing. 1 made Ophlr, and she was a
Jhummer."
"And you won something there that
"was more than mere money," Cede
encouraged. "Now dp you know what
I would do if I had lots of money
and simply had to go on playing at
business? Take all the southerly and
westerly slope of these bare hills. I'd
fcuy them In and plant eucalyptus on
them,. I'd do it for the joy of doing it
anyway but suppose I had that gam
bling twist in me which you talk
about, why, I'd do it Just the same
Hand make money out ot the trees. And
there's my, other point again. Instead
of .raising. the price of coal without
.adding an'ounce of opal to the market
«u»ply, I'd be making thpwsands "and
thousands ofCords of firewood—mak
ing something where nothing was be
low. And everybody who ever,
erossed'ibn the ferrisl* wduid 16ok up
at these forested hills and be made!
glad. Who was made .glad by your
Adding lour dollars a ton to Rock'
Wellit
tt was Daylight's torn to be allent
tor^a time while she waited an an
«w«ft
"Would you rather I jjlld things like
ho asked at last*
*Tt'Would be better for the world,
fritter lor you," -tit* answered
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CoP7tI*h». igio, by tba MacMlllaa Campan
on. I made that into the big Opblr.
Why, I ran the water In there from
the RInkabllly, eighty mllee away.
They all
FURNITURE
Many of our new dining room suites
for fall are already on. show, and we
would be very blad to have you see
tbem, if you expect to be Interested in
dining room furniture this fall,
We Invite you to visit our second
floor and see our exhibit of Choloe
PitrnltUre, whether you oontemplate.
m^kliTg a purchase or not—It will not
oniy be a feast for' your eyes, hot
Ybu/Wf(t )WuJ that furniture oughts
to be flMiie' io^^fear «t«, wejl for
knew that something new and big war
afoot In Daylight's mind. On Sunday
Dede learned all about it.
"I've been thinking a lot of oar
talk," he began, "and I've got an Idea
Td like to give it a flutter. And I've
got a proposition to make your hair
stand up, It's what you call legiti
mate, and at the same time It's the
gosh-dangdest gamble a man ever
went into. How about planting milt-
"Look at It," Said Daylight, Extending
His Arm In a Sweeping Gesture.
utes wholesale, and making two min
utes grow where one minute grew be
fore? Oh, yes, and planting a tew
trees, too—say several million of
them. You remember the quarry I
made believe I
waB
looking at? Well,
I'm going to buy It. I'm going to buy
these hills, too, clear from here
around to Berkeley and down the
other way to San Leandro. I own a
lot of them already, for that matter.
But mum is the word. I'll be buying
a long time to come before anything
much is guessed about it, and I don't
want the market to jump up out of
sight. You see that hill over there.
It's my hill running clear down Its
slopes through Piedmont and halfway
along those rolling hills into Oakland.
And it's nothing to all the things I'm
going to buy."
He paused triumphantly.
"The ferry system between Oakland
and San Francisco Is the worst oner
horse concern in the United States.
You cross on it every day, six days
In the week. That's say, twenty-five
days a month, or three hundred a
year. How long does it take you one
way? Forty minutes, It you're lucky.
Fin going to put you acrcs3 in twen
ty minutes. It that ain't making two
minutes grow* where one grew before,
knoek off my head with little apples.
Ill save you twenty minutes each
wa^. That's forty minues a day, times
three hundred, equal to twelve thou
sand minutes a year, just for you, Just
for one person. Let's see: that's two
hundred whole, hours. .Suppose I save
two hundred hours a year for thou
sands of other folks—that's farming
some, ain't is? Come on. Let's ride
up that, hill, and when. I get you out
on top where you can see' Something,
111 talk sense."
A small footpath dropped down to
the dry bed of the canyon, which they
crossed before they began the climb.
The slope was steep and covered with
matted brush and bushes, .through
'which the horses slipped and lunged.
Showers of twigs and leaves tell upon
them-, and predicament followed pre^
dicament, until they emerged on the
hilltop the worse for wear but happy
and excited. Here no trees obstruct
ed the view. The particular hill. on
Which they were, out-jutted from the
regular lineot the range, so that the
sxgep of. their .vision extended
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bes^the factories make,
pand ou^prf
and out^ prices
nsfderjng quality,.
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*re thti. tovvapt
at
we could buy and
r!ce|.
THE SATURDAY
three-quarters ot the circle. 6eloW on
the flat land bordering the bay, lay
Oakland, and across the bay wap San
Francisco. Between the two -cities
they could see the white terry-ooats
on the water. Around to their r'Hght
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 of fanning
land, and from Piedmont the land
rolled down in successive waveasupon
Oakland. jj^
"Look at it," said Daylight^extend
lng 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 a nutshell.
Why don't more people live te: Oak
land? No good service with San ifran
cisco, and, besides, Oakland Is asleep.
It's a whole lot better place to llVe
than San Francisco. Now, suppose I
buy in all the street railways of Oak
land, Berkeley, Alameda, San Leandro,
and the rest—bring tbem under ons
head with a competent management?
Suppose I 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 up-to-date boats? Why, folks will
want to live over on this side. Vfry
good. They'll need land on which to
build. So, first I buy up the land.
But the land's cheap now. Why? Be
cause It's in the country, no electrio
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
t'll sell the land as fast as the folks
will want to buy because of the im
proved ferry system and transporta
tion facilities.
"You see, I give the value to the
land 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. Can't 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-lands. Take,
between where I'm going to build my
pier and the old pleri It's shallow wa
ter. I can All and dredge and put "In
a 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 worklngmen and their
families. That means more houses
and more land, and that means mei
for 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&otv
about broke. What a metropolis needs
is a good water system. They Can't
give it. They're stick-in-the-muds. Ill
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 1} one place,
the more valuable is the re&l estate.
And this le the very place-for a crowd
to 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*U stampede a couple of hundred
thousand people In here inside two
years. And what's more, it won't be
one of these wildcat land booms. It
will ljg. Twenty sears
WATERTOWN,
COMPLCTS
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impress you.
from now there'll .be a million peopmi
on this side the bay. Another thlnw
is hotels. There Isn't a decent one la|
the town. I'll build a couple of up-to*'
date ones that'll make them sit up and
tako notice. I won't care if they don't
pay for years. Their effect will mor*
than giTe me my money back out of
fine other holdings. And, oh, yea, I'm
going to plant eucalyptus, millions ot
them, on these hills."
"But how are yoo going to do itr*
Dede asked. "You haven't enough
money tor all 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
wont anywhere near eat up the- In*
creastf tn land values, and I'll be sel!»
Ing.land rlght along."
to the weeks that followed Day*
light was a busy man. It meaht quick
work on a colossal scale, for Oakland
lusd Qie adjacent,, country wgs not
TC11 I N A I
\C LOTHES
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Buy, Your Suit While the
Season's Young
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THE time secure tffi besFSf the
the best is now. A week from nowt
our assortment of suits cannot pos
sibly contain the patterns it does to
day, so why wait? That you are go
ing to have a new suit is a foregoing
conclusion, so take your pick Jjyhile
picking is best.
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John JConley Co
r. -j The Bannef%:
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Our High Grade Suits and Overcoats hav,e
fitting proclivities of custom, tailor workerI
Their value will surprise you and their pricesf
sJM*'
slow to feel the tremendous buying!
But Daylight had the ready cash and]
it had always been his,' policy t*»\
strike qulckl^. Before the others'
could get the warning of the boom, he
quietly accomplished many things. At
the same time that his agents Went
purchasing corner lots and entire
blocks In the heart-of the business
section and the waste lands for fao-'
tory sites, Daylight was rusblng fran-j
chtses through the city council, cap-1
luring the two exhausted water com-!
panles and the eight or nine inde-r
pendent street railways, and getting,
his grip on the Oakland Creek and,
the bay tide-lands for his dock system.
The tide-lands had been in litigation
for years, end he took the bull by the]
horns—buying' out the private owners
and at the Bame time leasing from the
city fathers. By the time that Oak
land wa^aroused by this unprecedent
ed activity In toerr direction and was
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questioning excitedly the meaning of
It, Dayll^t «Qcret}f.
:bought the chief
Republican newspaper and the chief
Democratic organ, and moved boldly
Into his new offices. Of necessity, they
were on a large scale, occupying four
floors of the only modern office bulld-i
lng in the town—the only buildlngl
that wouldn't be torn down later on,'
as Daylight put it. There was de
partment after departmenl, a score of
them,-and hundreds of clerks and
Stenographers. As he told Dede:—
"I've got more companies than you!
can shake" a stick it. 'there's the Alsd
meda ft Contra Costa Land Syndicate,:
the Consolidated Street Railways, the]
Yerba Buena Ferry Company, the
TTnited Water Company,- the Pled*'
mont 'Realty Company, the Falnrlewi
and Portola Hotel Company, and half'
a dosen more that I've got to refer to
& notebook_to remember. There's the
Continued Next Week
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RUGS
or two won't come amiss
perhaps. They help to make the
house look more cheerful,'and a plok
from these lots will cost you much lese
Wi i,W|gK
Every reliable wake'^frf afrWiequal
ed variety of new fajl patterns,
well "as the broadest ran^e of qualU,
Wes and prices, Nothlnut In Rugtf.
that we can't show you. Make your
selection now,- and get flret. cjiolcfe
"ialV "IBS'
of
aenu,n®
and largi
and
Oriental
'iWugs, of couraerpreaente a wide se-
af
designs, some of which are
f^eii^fJor to oth^r^f-E ve«y
'^Jjlved in this stock Ws selected
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