THE MAN WHO WAS C.L. BEST

Caterpillar Tractor Co. was all of two years old in 1925, when the company hired F. Hal Higgins as a news editor. Higgins moved to California, where he would work for Caterpillar from 1927 to 1933. In 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, he left Caterpillar to launch a freelance career in agriculture journalism that would go on to span five decades.

This account of early Best history, originally published in later in 1952, gives a glimpse of C.L. Best, son of company founder Daniel Best. C.L. Best was chairman of the Caterpillar board from 1925 until his death