Post invests fortune in West Texas Utopia

Months of costly construction went down the drain on May 14, 1907, when C.W. Post picked out a new place for his West Texas dream town and ordered the original site abandoned. The hired hands shrugged their shoulders. After all, the Battle Creek millionaire had the bucks to build his High Plains utopia many times over. The creator of a popular coffee substitute did not merely find the pot at the…