Show in in Old Days I I I HE merchant of oC today in Salt THE T Lake City who happens to read the following will sigh for the UIO grand old times lines when n merchandising dising paid a u fair Call profit profi and mere Main lain street rents were not per pOI month for Cor frontage one story Crame building Only a 11 few buildings remain of oC that class however recently the Teasdale Gardner store on the site of oC which Thomas Kearns is now erecting what Is I said to be the finest office building west of oC Chicago But merchandising in pioneer times Is my In theme and 1 will bo be brief l Take TaJu for Cor Instance the of oC coffee cof ee eesi K h sugar si tea tta ti etc In IS IS 13 years ear after atter the advent of oC the pioneers by b reference to an nn Invoice of general merchandise billed by b N 7 S Co Who built and occupied the store now used by Z C M 1 I drug department On this Invoice I find billed OS 98 S lbs IbM white while sugar Q 5 S log Ibs brown sugar Q Ibs lbs coffee 3 70 Think of oC this ye e economical house housewife housewife wife and this is the wholesale price In 1865 1665 retell retail was teas at least 30 per cent more and as for COl tea ono one chest of oC Young H Hyson son 75 74 pounds brought brou ht or 01 per Ier pound gunpowder tea was the same price I have hae sold many nan pounds of oC Young Hyson H son at Jo ii per pcr pound over oel the counter or 50 cents an ounce and we used Troy Tro weights too loo The he usual method was to give Ie the mho th customer all nil he could scoop up on a 0 50 60 cent silver piece for Cor the half hall dollar Other Items of oC the grocery line lino were equally high for fOl Instance soda 40 edits per lIeI pound Indigo 3 2 per pel pound cloves and ginger SI 1 per pound concentrated con concentrated lye Ie for laundry laundr use HS 38 a n case caso white plug tobacco at pOI per pound and anI smoking tobacco 15 per pel pound would indicate the tho sum Bum of luxuries The rho men were happy happ when they the could sell Horse shoe nails at lit 40 cents per pound pond Brass kettles at nt 2 per pound Shovels and spades at each Axes at 4 to H 6 each Cut nails nalls Sd and amid 1011 40 per keg kegIn kegIn In fact the whole lino IIno was on the above ahoe tango range of tiC prices But Out dry dl goods show perhaps as great greata a Il change for COl before the advent adent of tho mho Union Pacific railway as LIS this bill shows by the tho first Item tent we find timid 43 pieces nieces of or calico 1560 yards yard at 30 cents a fine item to start a store storo with and allt all 1111 designed to furnish the Ogden market where this shipment was inns lIS made This price prevailed until Z C M II I opened its wholesale dry dr goods depart depa department t ment In the Jennings corner Main and First South streets now the thc Utah Na National National National bank about March 1 1369 The wholesale price of such prints Amos Antos keag keng I eal harmony Sprague was reduced from 35 cents cent to 10 25 5 cents per yard and the people gathered In hi numbers to dis 1115 discuss discuss cuss tho the advantages of eo cooperation that made mado a liberal reduction In the leading dress goods of or the people were only worn by b the wealthy wealth and they tho sold for 75 cents pcr per yard tId retail They however have hn vc long Ion since ceased to be he In iii tho mho market Three pieces of oC Hickory shirting bought 72 i or 53 cents per pcr yard ard while standard brands of or bed bell tick ranged from 78 cents cent to 1 50 Amos knag A C A now 20 O cents sold for tl 12 per yard urd seamless sacks each Lancaster ginghams brought 50 cents per yard rard go 04 sheet sheeting fag ing per yard ard blue jeans U 5 1 per pel yard ard the universal cloth for tor mens f trousers trouser Cotton thread In skeins not spools at per pcr pound while spool thread then Just coming in the market sold said for a dozen or one ono spool 15 cents This bill shows an entry of oC 14 11 ounces Troy sewing and embroidery silk for tor 22 2 Ladles shakers were ere then In vogue the cheapest at 75 cents Candle wick 1 which supplied the motive power for far t tallow lallow candles In those days das was 40 10 i cents per dozen and cotton yarn arn In I five pound bundles for Cor hand weaving brought from Crom 38 8 to 10 per pcr bunch and LInd the better quality was the tho home made from Dixie at a higher price Freight rates via In tho the Butterfield all I cost 25 cents per pound I Ifor for fOI heavy goon goos OOS and reached per tali pound for Cor tho the lighter classes but as II the lie railroad approached gradually re reducing reducing reducing the tho wagon haul prices i r bled not in III one general slump but gradually and uniformly The IhO pioneer merchant rarely saw real lal money It was exchange trade the products of oC tho the soil soli served sered as the medi medium medium um of oC exchange and store orders order were welO Issued by b all merchants and they were at times restricted to tho the pur purchase purchase purchase chase of ot such things as liS the dealers dealer had tin do overstock of 0 flour sugar coffee tobacco etc and sold only on for tor forcash forcash cash Many ilam of oC your readers will recall re recall recall call tho the names n mes of oC Livingston Co Eldredge l o Clawson Gilbert Gerrish I I Godbe Mitchell Hindle Bassett I I Lawrence Taylor Cutler Walker alk r Bros ros N X S Co I Staines Needham and a t number I m mIn I of oC others loss less prominent In III tho the GOs GON Richard and David Daid Candland kept the enly bakery 1 In Jn town and managed the Globe a n 1 where tho the products of lC his hla shop were welo sold and where Horace was waR dined but not wined while on his celebrated trip to Call Cali California t forms fornia on which Hank Monk the stage sl e driver drle uttered the famous Camous Keep your teat seat Horace mind and we will got get g t you Oll through on time J But was entertained by b tho local capitalists at tho the Globe and cove CIO oysters o at l per can small size now 10 11 edits cents was teas tho the principal Item Henn on tho ho menu card The Globe stood whore whom the Home Homo Firo Insurance building is III now upper Main street and such was tho the entertainment But note tho the change chang time has ha wrought no morn moro tho the Irregular store storefronts storefronts fronts and uneven board hoard anti and wel aveh side walks pole fences Conces no longer lom l give property lines but bat pavements pavement plate glass and skyscrapers obstruct the tho i i ilow low and pioneer times limes havo have gone one oneto to return no more |