The first proposal concerning capital was rather chimerical. As an hypothesis, the sum of $800,000 was taken as a reasonable amount for the promotion of the company. With this sum 400,000 or perhaps 300,000 acres of land were to be bought at the price of twenty-five cents per acre, and within two years 1200 colonists were to be permanently settled on this land. In addition the following estimates were made: Grist and sawmills $ 6,000 Stocks of mechanics’ tools and fixtures 5,000 Stocks of farming and gardening implements, 8,000 including threshing and reaping machines Horses and wagons for transportation 5,000 Building materials, seed, young fruit trees, 35,000 vines, etc. 2,000 head of cattle 20,000 1,000 horses and breeding mares bought in 16,000 Mexico Stallions, jacks, rams, mules, sheep, hogs and 20,000 fowls of approved breeds Cooper’s shop, pottery, brewery, tanner’s yard 15,000 and cheese dairy Transport, wages and maintenance of colonists 60,000 Sum of expenditure during the first year $190,000 For the second year—Transport of colonists $ 20,000 For their outfit, additional tools and 100,000 implements, the establishment of workshops and various branches of industry Making a total for the first two years $310,000[20] Thus, there would be a balance of $400,000 in the treasury for further development of the colony. In order to make it easy to raise this money there were provided four ways in which one could invest, viz., (a) invest the money and reserve the right to participate in the movement later as a colonist, (b) to become a colonist, (c) gifts to be paid in installments, (d) people to act as commercial and colonizing agents.[21] Such relations in a financial way would determine the status of a settler after he had arrived at the colony, and, of course, the settler’s own desire as to his relations with the colony would have some effect. The financial relations were to be determined by the formation of the following groups within the colony: 1. Associates in capital and in labor 2. Associates in labor 3. Associates in capital, working of their own accord 4. Workers not associated, salaried by the association 5. Some non-associated, or semi-associated residents working of their own accord 6. Pensioners, or boarders, orphans, old and infirm, etc. Only the first two groups were to have a full fellowship, the others merely held rights in the company and participated in its activities in a small degree.[22]