 Throughout the Great Depression, George Holliday continued to supply a population from which money had all but vanished.To deal with this problem, Holliday produced a form of money called "scrip" which the locals could barter form goods at the Holliday stores.Back then, the majority of agriculture output was produced by farmers living on the land with their families and agreeing to "share the crop" with the land owner generally on a 50/50 basis, thus the term "sharecropper".