Show Pelts and an Trinkets Made M HW al e r rt t 4 n nw nt k w t n R t ts tr tM P s r M H U W A InER 5 Years Tears Ago Ajo Y first thousand dollars fM Whew 1 That going back backa a iong long ways way was the astonished remark of M H Halker Walker alker head of Walker alker Brothers bank and a pioneer In Salt Sail Lake Do you OU know with a 0 thoughtful glint flint in his eyes eeS I dont clont believe I really know just when I first came into the possession of that first thousand I know that I was ww worth a good gooel many man thousands s before I r first got my m hands upon one ono thousand th dollars in actual coin Oh I see sel How I made what would represent one thousand In value ulue land and the tanker ankor chewed ch we wethe the o id his Mer busi business ness in a small way wa me mo that first thousand tho It did not come in ini ina ina a i day a or a n month 01 o a year noi nor yet ye even eYen in two And I i nt go into um un bank bault and draw tine the money mone on tt i of oC papel That first thousand thou was made malle up lP principally of oC furs Curs and pelts flour grain Thin and trinkets They were ere the medium me lum of exchange In those thos days dai for there was little coin of the tho realm male In ht circulation For Foi that reason while ninny many thousands of oC dollars worth of property might have hae been amassed by b no one ono of them would have haye hazarded a guess upon Just how much I he was worth In actual 1 cash I Mr 11 paused pau ed for a moment and an his eyes ees took on the lima far away look loo of the days das Salt Lake e was but a trading post when iv ien the skyscrapers of ot today toda were core veritable castles In ht Spain In those days he continued furs Curs which bi ought brought t le enela I of grain or Jack jod knives would w ulel now sell for hun hundreds hundreds s of dollars ollars In golden coin Even real ral estate on o only lv i a 0 comparative value Of cour course e there was a good deal of money mone in ch dilution circulation In tho the west we t In ln those days ars but It was used us uSI d principally as as a n medium mec lum of exchange With the tho cast east and ancl most of it ht was tu on un the coast Very Vel little actual coin or currency was wui In evidence In ht this Im lun Immediate Immediate mediate country countr THOUSAND A DREAM In those a man had u a thou thousand thousand sand dollars ho he was rich beyond the th dreams of avarice n Tola with the same amount he has gds nothing com comparatively In tn the tho old times tines It was almost beyond the tho hope of a 11 young man to get set together a 11 i thousand dollars although It was a n time of ot great riches But th the riches were not In the foi form in of or money Tho The banker swung around In his I chair and the reminiscent look left his eyes eos They The with an earnest a conviction as ni he went on Times have changed If you ou cannot say it that I you have hae a n thousand dollar the nat natural natural ural conclusion Is that you are aro not very cr ambitious 01 o th that it you ou have hac been heen outliving your our laconic Income Thom are aie hundreds and hun hundreds hunch eds of tradesmen who have never neer seen a thousand dollars and an never will But aa nil a rule nIle they the are arc people who wino aro uro living beyond be ond their thell means Tho The high cost of living at the tho pres present present ent time has lessoned lessened tho the chances of many man people p especially the man who is li not of or tho the trade tra e union class The great cost of lifes s necessities necessities without u a corresponding Increase in iii wages lira has spoiled ninny many man a mans chances chancel fat foi getting that first thou thousand sand sanel dollars It is probable that there thore will be a 0 change and that every eel one ever even the most trivial class of laborers will at no great future time be able ablo to get that fine start In life |