Comrades, a Story of Social Adventure in California
Comrades, a Story of Social Adventure in California
Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946
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He merely nodded pleasantly and hurried from the room. He gave his whole energies at once to the larger business of the enterprise. The title to the prop erty was searched with the utmost thoroughness and found to be perfect. Enormous sums of money had been spent on the island by the bank rupt wild-cat real-estate company which had bought it in for improvement and exploitation. They had built a magnificent hotel with accom modations for one thousand five hundred guests, had planted vineyards, e...stablished a winery THE BURNING OF THE BRIDGES 115 planted vast orchards of plums, apricots, olives, peaches, and oranges, built flour mills, an ice factory, and had started a number of mining and manufacturing enterprises. When the bubble burst the company was bankrupt and the lawyers got the rest. A careful inventory showed to Norman that they had acquired a property of enormous value. The improvements alone had cost $1, 250, 000, and they were worth twice that sum now to the colony. He chartered a corporate society, known as "The Brotherhood of Man, " for the purpose of legalizing the new social State of Ventura when it had passed the experimental stage and he could surrender to it the title and money held in trust under the deed of gift.
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