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Show In the round-table meeting of the interested parties it was decided to continue on for the current year under the terms of Bill's and H. John's lease agreement with John K. At the end of that year Bill sent H. John's share of profits to him even though he had left on the funeral day of May 15th, and had never returned. He signed into the Air Corps in December. EXPANDING Bill even expanded the business somewhat, still building for the future. Since the Huntington-Cleveland Irrigation Company had been successful through the courts in taking Miller's Flat from them in 1939, he and John K had planned the building of a new camp house, separating corral, and commissary salt house-to replace the old buildings that would be destroyed by the building of the reservoir. The last winter of John K!s life had contained the outlining of projected plans for new camp headquarters to be built above the water line of the reservoir, on the south end near a spring. Bill knew what John K had in mind, and soon after the funeral, during the summer of 1942, Bill carried the project to completion. ' Bill even added more cropland to the ranch acreage by purchasing the Morgan and Lawrence Winters property, totaling about seventy acres, fronting the roadway to the ranch. Being 270 |
