 Towner resettled on his property , but was forced to sell Valparaiso in 1922 after he was unable to raise sufficient funds to purchase livestock . He spent the next three years working as a jackaroo , until he entered into a partnership on Kaloola station , a property located near Longreach , in 1925 . Towner eventually bought out his partner and assumed another partnership with the Russleigh Pastoral Company , Isisford . He was later appointed a director of the company . 
