Thomasville Furniture Industries offers several types of high-performance fabrics that are capable of withstanding chemicals as harsh as chlorine. A Midwestern manufacturing company that uses fabric in several products has a report showing that the present worth of fabric purchases over a specified 5-year period was $900,000. If the costs are known to have increased geometrically by 5% per year during that time and the company uses an interest rate of 15% per year for investments, what was the cost of the fabric in year 1?