In the Rinkabilly watershed, eighty miles away, he built his reservoir, and for eighty miles the huge wooden conduit carried the water across country to Ophir.

Estimated at three millions, the reservoir and conduit cost nearer four.

Nor did he stop with this.

Electric power plants were installed, and his workings were lighted as well as run by electricity.

Other sourdoughs, who had struck it rich in excess of all their dreams, shook their heads gloomily, warned him that he would go broke, and declined to invest in so extravagant a venture.
But Daylight smiled, and sold out the remainder of his town-site holdings.