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Show • 1 Even terming him a millionaire was far from the truth. During his crest years he was prosperous, but never a hoarder He enjoyed using money for whatever would make life more complete. Most of his sales were far-flung throughout the United States and they gradually reached into other countries as well. Only a small portion of his sales were made in his immediate home area-rso good money from elsewhere was constantly being drawn into Mt. Pleasant. High overhead expenses (accounts payable) included unusually large amounts of hay, grain, and cotton-seed pellets for supplemental winter feeding of the ewe herd and for barn feeding of show and sales animals. Hay was purchased by the stack in the fields near to use. The constantly increasing costs of expansion in a growing business^-of taxes and grazing fee increases, trucks and machinery maintenance, wage increases, combined with continuous advertising costs and those of registrations, railroad charges, stamps, stationary, telephone and telegraph hills-^created a staggering total expenditure each month. Such, details were naturally unknown and not even imagined by the average person in the area-and only a contemporary purebred sheepmen could have understood them, A NEW FARM In late 1918, John K negotiated with Peter A, Larsen who was currently buying the eastern part of the old Proctor 183 |