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Burning Daylight

CHAPTER XI
16/24

And if you-all are thinking of needing lumber, I'll make you-all contracts right now--three hundred dollars a thousand, undressed." Corner lots in desirable locations sold that winter for from ten to thirty thousand dollars.

Daylight sent word out over the trails and passes for the newcomers to bring down log-rafts, and, as a result, the summer of 1897 saw his sawmills working day and night, on three shifts, and still he had logs left over with which to build cabins.

These cabins, land included, sold at from one to several thousand dollars.
Two-story log buildings, in the business part of town, brought him from forty to fifty thousand dollars apiece.

These fresh accretions of capital were immediately invested in other ventures.

He turned gold over and over, until everything that he touched seemed to turn to gold.
But that first wild winter of Carmack's strike taught Daylight many things.


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