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I carefully selected a lot in the centre of the business district, although its price was the highest in the schedule five hundred dollars and made the purchase at once." "Are you the man I mean, did you pay five hundred dollars for a lot in Skyland" asked J. Pinkney Bloom.
"There's a good many swindles connected with these booms," he said presently. "What if this Skyland should turn out to be one that is, suppose business should be sort of dull there, and no special sale for books?"
Now, you see that old babe-in-the-wood over there? Well, he's the boy that drew the prize. That was the only five-hundred-dollar lot that went. The rest ranged from ten dollars to two hundred. His wife writes poetry. She's invented one about the high grounds of Georgia, that's way up in G. They're going to Skyland to open a book store."
The owners of these precipitous, barren, useless lots might come and view the scene of their invested credulity, or they might leave them to their fit tenants, the wild hog and the browsing deer. The work of the Skyland Real Estate Company was finished.
He purchased there a precipitous tract of five hundred acres at forty-five cents per acre; and this he laid out and subdivided as the city of Skyland the Queen City of the Switzerland of the South. Streets and avenues were surveyed; parks designed; corners of central squares reserved for the "proposed" opera house, board of trade, lyceum, market, public schools, and "Exposition Hall."
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