Chapter 390 The first management meeting of the ranch
In fact, what is now known as the Garrison Ranch is only a small part of the original Garrison Ranch. Just because the original owner of the ranch was located within the scope of the current ranch, the name of the Garrison Ranch was also inherited by the current ranch.
The original ranch had more than 30,000 acres. It was the largest and best ranch in Celias Town, and it was also one of the famous large ranches in Billings City.
After the death of the first owner Garrison, the ranch was managed by his descendants for several generations. Gradually, his descendants had no intention of continuing to operate the ranch, so they sold the ranch and went to live in big cities.
Because the ranch is too big and Montana's overall economy is in a recession, the ranch has been on the market for several years, but no deal has been completed because the total price was too high.
Later, the Garrison family simply divided the ranch into four pieces based on geographical features, and then the sales were completed one after another.
These four pastures were transferred several times, and one of them was taken by Kota Ono. It is now in the hands of Sun Dahai and has become a project of Jiahua Investment Company.
While talking, two cars arrived at Garrison Ranch. A slightly old archway stood beside the road, and a path led inside.
Under Ent's leadership, the two vehicles left the road and turned into the pasture.
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Dennis and Lockegier were holding mops and were carefully wiping the wooden corridor in front of the villa. Their wives were in the villa, checking the rooms that had been cleaned many times one by one again.
Chef Villa was frying the china fruit carefully while observing the heat of the vanilla custard in the oven. At the same time, he also had to take care of the hot chocolate made by his wife and assistant, which seemed a bit busy.
The current actual manager of the ranch, the butler Mr. Dalton of Britten, is patrolling the villa. Several servants are following him. Whenever he points out something is wrong, someone will go up and deal with it quickly.
Outside the villa, in the stables, in the cattle and sheep pens, and in the cabins by the lake, people are cleaning nervously to welcome the arrival of the new owner.
Everyone at the Garrison Ranch now knows that the ranch has changed its owner. Although the original Japanese ranch owner almost never cared about the ranch and even came to the ranch only once.
But now that there is a new owner, no one knows his temper or preferences, so everyone is a little uneasy.
Especially workers like Little Doyle who had no legal formalities. When they heard that the new owner was coming to the ranch this afternoon, they slipped out early in the morning and drove around the ranch with the few cows and sheep they had left.
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Butler Dalton carefully inspected every room and corner of the villa, and then took people to the door of the villa, where they arranged their appearance and clothes, waiting for the new owner's first arrival.
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The car drove through the gate of the ranch, and after driving for a few minutes, it arrived in front of a lakeside villa.
From a distance, the villa is made of logs as the main material and looks very tall and rough. There are more than a dozen people standing neatly at the gate of the villa, seemingly welcoming Sun Dahai and his party.
The car stopped, Dalton took a step forward, opened the door with his left hand, and protected the upper edge of the door with his right hand.
Sun Dahai did his part and got out of the car first.
Joseph, who was sitting in the deputy seat, also came down and introduced everyone at the ranch to Sun Dahai.
Dalton, the butler who opened the door for Sun Dahai, is over 60 years old this year. He has worked and lived at Garrison Ranch for 40 years and has served as five ranchers.
He is a standard Britten steward, rigorous, responsible, dedicated, meticulous, and very experienced.
Below him are two executive-level cowboys, Dennis and Locke Gill, both in their early thirties, in the prime of life.
They were recruited to the ranch by Ono's previous rancher, and through hard work, they have become the actual persons in charge of the ranch.
Both of them are locals, and their wives also work on the ranch. Daniel already has a child, who is in school and living in town with his parents.
Chef Villa is a Hispanic food lover. He and his wife are responsible for three meals a day for the people in the villa.
Sun Dahai, Chen Feng and Linkwood received them in turn. After Villa and his wife met the new owner, they hurried back to the kitchen of the villa, where they were preparing afternoon tea for everyone.
It can be seen that Joseph, Ent, including Gerald and Jessica, are very familiar with the people in the ranch. After meeting each other, Gerald and Jessica took Andrew and ran to the stables to see
The horse has gone.
Under Dalton's guidance, Sun Dahai and his party visited the villa. Although the villa seemed a bit old, it was kept very neatly, which made Sun Dahai appreciate Dalton's ability very much.
This villa is a standard two-and-a-half-story structure. Not counting the workers' area, it has a total of nine bedrooms and fourteen bathrooms.
The first floor has living rooms, conference rooms, study rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, cigar and wine rooms, collection rooms and workers’ living areas.
There are eight bedrooms on the second floor, including three master bedrooms, five guest bedrooms, and a family lounge area.
There is only one master room on the third floor, a large bedroom, a large study room, a large bathroom and a dressing room. There is also an oversized terrace facing Mount Martir and Reese Lake, with a panoramic view of the lake and mountains.
Because the villa is built on the bank of Reese Lake, in order to prevent water seepage and moisture return, there is no basement in the villa.
The entire villa has a construction area of approximately 1,300 to 400 square meters. There are two rows of two-story buildings 4 to 500 meters away from the villa, which are the living areas for other ranch staff.
After a brief tour of the villa, Dalton arranged their rooms for everyone. The bedding in all rooms was brand new, and Dalton did an impeccable job in these areas.
After taking a short break, everyone went downstairs and came to the conference room on the first floor. The first management meeting of Jiahua Investment Company after it took over Garrison Ranch was held here.
There were not many people attending the meeting. In addition to Sun Dahai, Chen Feng, Linkwood, and Fang Ying also attended as Chen Feng's translator.
From the original management of the ranch, only Dalton, Dennis, and Rockgill were present, while Ono Kota's close associates had already left early.
Joseph also attended the meeting as a special representative and legal advisor of Garrison Ranch.
First, let’s introduce the current situation of the ranch.
Joseph sent everyone the statistical information on banking and taxation. Daniel and Lockegier introduced the details respectively. Everyone compared them and soon had a relatively complete understanding.
The Garrison Ranch covers an area of 9,000 acres, which sounds large, but because it includes Mount Martier and Reese Lake, the usable pasture area is only 2,000 acres.