Average cost, five and seven cents for the two sizes.
"The first year sell, say, ten thousand bottles in Missouri, seven thousand in Iowa, three thousand in Arkansas, four thousand in Kentucky, six thousand in Illinois, and say twenty-five thousand in the rest of the country.

Total, fifty five thousand bottles; profit clear of all expenses, twenty thousand dollars at the very lowest calculation.

All the capital needed is to manufacture the first two thousand bottles -- say a hundred and fifty dollars--then the money would begin to flow in.
The second year, sales would reach 200,000 bottles--clear profit, say, $75,000--and in the meantime the great factory would be building in St.
Louis, to cost, say, $100,000.

The third year we could, easily sell 1,000,000 bottles in the United States and----" "O, splendid!" said Washington.

"Let's commence right away--let's----" "-- --1,000,000 bottles in the United States--profit at least $350,000 -- and then it would begin to be time to turn our attention toward the real idea of the business." "The real idea of it! Ain't $350,000 a year a pretty real----" "Stuff! Why what an infant you are, Washington--what a guileless, short-sighted, easily-contented innocent you, are, my poor little country-bred know-nothing! Would I go to all that trouble and bother for the poor crumbs a body might pick up in this country?
Now do I look like a man who----does my history suggest that I am a man who deals in trifles, contents himself with the narrow horizon that hems in the common herd, sees no further than the end of his nose?
Now you know that that is not me--couldn't be me.