Haies Canyon Property developed

Haines Canyon Property

I bought two pieces from the family. My dad didn’t really want to do it but Bill Ferry went ahead and did it; bless his heart. I bought about a two-acre piece and I cut them up on paper and I just really couldn’t sell them for lots. And then I took some chances; the big freeway program was going on in the area and this was in the late 50s. Contractors would buy houses and move them onto vacant lots; like used car lots, only they were used house lots. And I sold these lots. I think it was four or five I sold; cut them out on paper and sold them up to these contractors and they would buy the land from me and then they’d buy the house from the land company and move it on the property and they would set it down and sell it. I took chances on all these people but everything worked out fine. You know, I did things I shouldn’t have done but I put (my second deed behind) the house and on and on but everything worked fine and I got a big push into the real estate world.

I bought another from the family, about 20 acres, and basically it was a hillside; a little sliver of land and a hillside. And I could see there was a hole there and then I allowed a contractor to fill the hole with dirt. I never did anymore with it. I sold the whole property. But I look down on the map; I see there are houses built on that sliver where the old Peter L. Ferry plant is. You can’t really tell where it is right now; it’s just all houses. And he would dig out from behind the dam, the sand, and he’d haul it to the plant and process it and we have pictures of the old plant right there. I’m looking down now and I’m not sure that’s a house but it looks like some old spoil piles are still there on the property.

Haines Canyon – that’s where I got my start in the real estate business.