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Burning Daylight in Oakland Brings Vast Real-Estate Boom
Elam Harnish known as Burning Daylight hosts a crowd as he stakes over ten thousand dollars in a mining era dance while planning a Yukon mail run. Davitch builds a vast Oakland empire buying water, railways and tide-lands, plotting a metropolis with docks and hotels as Dede Mason questions his greed and marriage offers.
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Elam Harnish
Alaska
Tivoli
Davticht
Dawson
Klondike
Civilization
Igh Finance
New York
Warnish
San Francisco
Dede Mason
Daylight
Dede
Davlight
Oakland
Dayligt
Oakland Creek
Bay Tide-Lands
Norns
Alameda & Contra Costa Land Syndicate
Consolidated Street Railways
Yerba Buena Ferry Company
United Water Company
Piedmont Realty Company
Fairview and
Portola Hotel Company
Piedmont Laundry Farm
Redwood Consolidated Quarries