Bottom Line$: The JA’$ Return on Investment

“To maintain their landed Victorian lifestyle, the Adair’s required a Bonanza. Their JA Ranch investment did not disappoint.”

In Adair’s lifetime, the JA Ranch grew to 1.25 million acres, harvested hundreds of thousands of cattle, and, in its first five years (by 1882-3), reaped a profit of more than $500,000, a staggering sum in 1880’s dollars!