Among the business men of Redlands none have been more familiar with the development of its great industry \u2013 the culture of citrus fruits \u2013 than H. H. Daniels, who, as a dealer in real estate, has assisted in the growth of the city from its very commencement.\u00a0 Mr. Daniels spent most of his youth and school days in Michigan.\u00a0 At twenty he went into business on his own account in Kansas and Nebraska.\u00a0 Mr. Daniels has traveled in every state and territory of the Union, with two or three exceptions, visiting nearly all the large cities.\u00a0 During these travels he has always taken pains to acquaint himself with the resources, the climate and the advantages and disadvantages of each city and state visited, making comparisons and forming opinions of great value in his later business experiences.<\/p>\n
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Mr. Daniels came to Redlands from Nebraska eleven years ago.\u00a0 The only real estate man here then was D. L. Clark since deceased.\u00a0 Mr. Daniels opened an office on Lugonia Terrace, where R. E. McGinness\u2019s orange orchard now stands.\u00a0 After a few months he took W. E. Sibley into partnership and the firm was afterward enlarged by the association with it of L. W. Clark.\u00a0 Mr. Daniels has been constantly engaged in handling real estate from that time to the present, either on his own account, buying, improving and selling, or as agent for other owners.\u00a0 He also at one time was heavily interested in the nursery business, which he studied in all its details. He has built and sold twenty-one residences in Redlands, all of them creditable to the city.<\/p>\n
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One real estate venture undertaken successfully by Mr. Daniels illustrates the rapid increase in land values in the earlier days.\u00a0 This was the development of Terracina Addition Number One.\u00a0 George Wilson had taken 160 acres of land as a government claim, at $1.25 an acre.\u00a0 Mr. Daniels purchased the tract for $10,000 cash, as soon as Wilson acquired title, laid two miles of pipes to supply it with water, graded, planted, and sold the whole tract, which now contains some very handsome navel orange groves.<\/p>\n
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Mr. Daniels has a knack of pleasing both buyer and seller in the sales of the properties which he handles.\u00a0 He believes that the best property is the cheapest and is fond of selling something in which he himself has confidence, such as a fine bearing orchard, all navels, well graded and with a first-class water right.\u00a0 Such properties bring incomes, and although sold at high prices, are the most satisfactory investments that can be made in this section.\u00a0 His long experience and intimate acquaintance with land values and his knowledge of every detail of planting and cultivation make him an authority on these subjects.\u00a0 His customers bring their friends to buy of him and frequently refuse higher prices for their purchases than the high prices which they, themselves paid, two facts which speak well for the soundness of his judgment.<\/p>\n
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Mr. Daniels\u2019 office is in the First National Bank building, on Orange street, on the ground floor, and very convenient of access.\u00a0 He keeps his own carriages for the convenience of patrons and is always prepared to show intending purchasers the finest citrus properties or residence sites in Redlands.<\/p>\n
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(Source: Illustrated Redlands<\/em>, 1897, p. 71.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20705,"template":"","photo_tag":[],"gallery":[176],"awards_category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo\/20704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/photo"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo\/20704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"photo_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo_tag?post=20704"},{"taxonomy":"gallery","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gallery?post=20704"},{"taxonomy":"awards_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/awards_category?post=20704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}