By the time the year 1914 arrived, I had made up my mind that if I were to continue living on the ranch, I wanted a home of my own, and if I could not have such a home, I wanted to leave the ranch and start doing something elsewhere. Our old ranch buildings, which had been crudely built and which were not worth remodelling or repairing and had not been place on permanent foundations were wearing out. My father decided that he would let me build a home of my own and consequently we contracted with Mr. Thomas Stubbs of Lethbridge to build a fine modern home of twelve rooms and a full basement, immediately west of the old ranch site. Plans for this house I had procured in Salt Lake City, Utah. The house was finished in October of 1914, but due to the war conditions I was not able to move into it until the year 1917 when my brother and I got a Japanese couple to keep house for us and moved into it. 

In the year 1915 a big horse barn was built and from then on one building after another has been added both at the ranch and farm, until we have a number of good barns, houses, machine storage sheds and a 45,000 bushel granary. A lot of money has been spent for building, some of it rather needlessly, but most of them we are glad to have and we can still see how we nee a few more of them. Also, three water storage reservoirs have been built to catch run off water for use in irrigating hay ground.