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PORT PERRY BRANCH 9. HUICHESON, Managure House on the south side of the river, and a man named Charles Black "kept a tavern on the north side. Thomas Shaw was another early set- £in this locality. ' At Greenbank (once called Gimlet Town and later Smith's Corners) _were the Craggs, Bairds, George Patterson, Robert Wells, Lewis Houck, "Joseph Ward, Cobblethwaite, John Ianson, and John McLaren. At the end of ten years, that is in 1831, Reach had 134 inhabitants. 'This record must necessarily be incomplete, as no person living can remember all who were in this locality at that time. A third a baie Toronto to Oshawa, and then 'o be Continued) 'north. They settled the Whitby, Reach and Scugog, and included English, Irish, Scotch. and some Ami "or friend be - : There was an English group: f settlers that took up land in Darling: Supposed Values Sol nen be worth Reid the im- "ton and overflowed into Cartwright. Here the North of Ireland people | One hears so many stories of wealth pro ments & put on os e property Oke Josh the Sadi pe le 8 being quite inferior, as they came from. to-day; that it is bewildering. Poverty a an to wl ote Cough 5 $300 mine Spt or ale agriculture. seems to have taken wings, and leftus oo. oop 4 oe with so much prosperity that it costs : poss -" RESUS | Sonetinieg a very great deal to live respectably that way. Butt is wt and healthfully. Men are reputed to cause few would pay $400 per foot: become enormously wealthy in a short when equally desirable and improved* holy hn Syeslt Te . | [ property can be purchased half a mile ake this instance. man In a distant at $200 per foot or perhaps Western city bought a. residental lot g co, be perhaps" 'One of them bad come in by way of 108 ft at. $200 per foot. He had If men who buy Western real estate in from Toronto, Havelling and th other. by way of Toronto. . When. these men took up slowly accummulated that $20,000 could be satisfied when they have of them belfpwen that he had reached the end of civilization. here in the East. made a good profit, it would not-be so» It was real money and he knew pad; but the fever gets into the blood; just about what it cost in labor, self- 3nd the shrewdness of these buyers is He laughed at his sacrifice and mental effort. He could considered nearly infallible--by theme ; betas, 'he was sure Wiobody lived in that direction. Then he lis- ba ve bought choice residetitial lots in selves. . . téned again to make sure that he had been wrong the first time; but he Toronto at $50 per foot, but their spec- | Many a man who is rated high in was not for he heard the sound of the axe once more. Off he started to ulative valiie Was not nearly so. great, wealth is really poor. If he was coms : investigate. "He found his unknown neighbor three miles away. Each for he sold his Western city lot at $300 pelied to pay everything he owed, and had lived quite close to' the other (for those days), and had not known it per foot, and made $10,000. Again turn his property into cash immediately because 'they had travelled into the woods from different directions. - he had the cash in his hands Enough he would often be" astonished at the discovery of a new neighbor was an_event of great importance. to live comfortably; for the remainder small amount of cash at his commands anh understand how mén would size each other up, noting of bis life. , 10 the hl estate business | As at Monte Calo, the worst of it the old proverb is slightly altered and ig that at umes men make wonderful reads "If at first you do succeed, ty profits and then their judgment is often again." So he bought again in what less cool, Still they buy and often buy he considered to be a better part of recklessly. "The Lune of their success. the city, and the price be paid this lis spread abroad by real estate agents, jime was $300 per foot. He hopes 10! and men who known nothing of the sell and has had some prospect of | conditions and possibilities joyfully customers at nearly $300. How much spend their hard carned money juss is this man really worth? To answer | Lefore the improvements are extended this question some points of Western fand property drops to its actual value. town: development must be considered. | People who have only $500 or When a town site is first opened $1000 to invest should be almost Indeed they were... A man was sowing his Shaoge: came cup wid sat down ona log: to lk mat- ' After disnssin many, subjects the soldier was -- fixed financially. He held up sixpence betsween his t's-all I've got," he said. And that soldier was ther of Mr. Waddell of Port Perry. Poverty was 'nearly everybody literally. hewed out his fortune ta Reach in 182%, and in £9 John: Rae an clearing his lot-- No. 11 in the znd' Next came Wm. Wade, 'who settled on the sth Three other: Jettiors followed; named i 3 ind Daniel D yton cattle in from the United Both settled at Prince Albert there are no drains, or water mains, or sidewalks, or other such improvements. The real estate dealer buys the land, finds a name, puts in such jmprove- ments as his purse will" allow, adver- '| tisés and sells again at as big an ad- vance as he can get. -T his is the whole progess of developmeént--buy improve, advertise; sell as high ere that operation cc con: would be. able to tell with as fait | "But development goes a on out: ginal a cas, and this fact i is atthe present 8 HOSE anxious painfully careful. This real estate business is a big man's game, and soo can dissappear like ar fleck of foam on - a running stream. Don't invest on a spec ulation until you have enough money that you cad afford to lose what you have invested and' take" chances as to succe It is counting chickens before they are hatched A man who has but $500 to invest would be far wiser to put it into his business, use his brains, and watch to see that the plant was watered and tended so that profits must come. Real values are based on the' earn- 'ing power of the property. Death of Rev. E J. McCamus < Rév. Jo Ay MeCamus, a. superanu- ated minister of the Methodist church and a past President and, Secretary of the Hay of Quinte Confercpee, died at: Toronto recently in: his!