He Would Sooner Have
Built Jones's Tenth Block, With A Prospect Of Completing A
Twentieth, Than Settle Himself Down At Rest For Life As The Owner
Of A Chatsworth Or A Woburn.
As for his children, he has no desire
of leaving them money.
Let the girls marry. And for the boys - for
them it will be good to begin as he begun. If they cannot build
blocks for themselves, let them earn their bread in the blocks of
other men. So Monroe P. Jones, with his million of dollars
accomplished, advances on to a new frontier, goes to work again on
a new city, and loses it all. As an individual I differ very much
from Monroe P. Jones. The first block accomplished, with an
adequate rent accruing to me as the builder, I fancy that I should
never try a second. But Jones is undoubtedly the man for the West.
It is that love of money to come, joined to a strong disregard for
money made, which constitutes the vigorous frontier mind, the true
pioneering organization. Monroe P. Jones would be a great man to
all posterity if only he had a poet to sing of his valor.
It may be imagined how large in proportion to its inhabitants will
be a town which spreads itself in this way. There are great houses
left untenanted, and great gaps left unfilled. But if the place be
successful, if it promise success, it will be seen at once that
there is life all through it.
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