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Show Valuable Sand Lots. Accident in making what afterward turn out to be good investments is always a favorite theme for discussion. An instance in-stance was cited where a young man went to Tacoma on a flying visit in the early days of the place, when the principal prin-cipal part of the town was its name. He was there only a few hours, but in that time was induced to buy several lata for almost nothing. Those lots made a fortune for him so suddenly that he could hardly realize that it could be possible. ; : - . Hark Sheldon, the wealthy real estate owner of San Francisco, made his fort-The fort-The out of a bad debt. He had grown rich and poor in several ventures, and when hard pressed once tried to collect all the money that was due him. One debtor was unable to give him a cent, but compromised his debt by handing over to Mr. Sheldon some sand lots in what is now Market street, San Francisco. Fran-cisco. - Sand lots were not very valuable in those days, and Mr. Sheldon found no opportunity to dispose of his until he saw that he might make a pretty sum of them. So he held on to them, and there is no more valuable real estate in the Golden Gate city today than Mark Sheldon's Shel-don's Market street property. New York Tribune. |