| Show WEALTH FROM REAL ESTATE we leoan ORD all or most moat of us remember the great boom elboom P here of three years ago or a little less lea some tow few ro remember member it because they are unable for a very forcible reason to forget it at that t time property in some instances sold old fabulously high it was quite essy easy to sell almost anything in the shape of realty and buying and selling with decided profits on each turn became a business in which a good many who were riot oot operating under the protecting aegis of it a license participated the times have changed wonderfully but it to is hardly to be expected that the traffic in dirt will remain as flat as at present probably jhb greatest and so far most solid speculations in this li 11 0 have taken place in denver where fortuned fortu neg have been amassed on quite limited investments and in comparatively short times there is the case of john brisban walker proprietor of the cosmopolitan magazine who recently sold to the atchison topeka santa fe railroad company for a piece of land in that place for which be paid less leas than ten years ago the sum of 1600 1500 1 I 1 fancy this is the most wonderful rise in the value of real estate that has ever occurred in this ou country says a wr writer ter in the washington star what wonderful luck 1 I 1 suppose many readers will exclaim As an usual with successful men there was no luck about it at all mr walker was possessed of the ability to see the value of this property before any one else saw it that is all when he be bought it the territory was a detached piece of land in front of the city with ft a river channel between it and the land laid out As ai streets mr walker built a causeway to connect his purchase with the mainland which cost him some thing but not very much the company was compelled to purchase this tract it could not mot get along with out it IMP this to ia a eade in which the ability to look a little ahead to of more value than capital and there are many auch atieh the above to ia not the only instance of mr walker Wal kera Is foresight fore wight and good management it being shown that he has baa netted from similar investments in convex more than additional so 0 o that from a man of means mean he now figures figurea an aa a triple millionaire we cant all paint nor ang sing nor act nor write nor hitup hit the real estate market at the right time one per harbia an much a faculty as aa any other and the best beet plan it if you are not g gifted fad in that way in to buy no more real prope property arty than you can afford and that too for your own uses |
