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Show Interesting Record. Ira E. Egan was down from Sm Itli field Saturday and incidentally showed show-ed us a rather interesting bill of goods found among his father's old papers a few days ago. Ira's father was Major Howard Egan and the bill Is dated Salt Lake, Oct. lii, 1804, from Iiassctt Si Roberts. Thcro arc but two small items on the bill, yet the amount runs up to $137.50 and is for 10 pounds of ''Gunpowder" tea and 1 sack df "Clarified A" sugar. The tea is rated at $5 a pound and the sugar at $8.75 a pound or $87.50 per sack of one hundred pounds. The people today who buy sugar at $0.00 and think it exorbitant should cast their memories backward and make a comparison. com-parison. Mayor Egan was at one time located at Deep Creek as superintendent superin-tendent of that portion of the "Overland" "Over-land" route, and sold sugar many times at $100 per sack, 'tis said. At one time In tho sixties It was not uncommon un-common for $10,000 worth of supplies to be placed on one wagon, and Mr. Egan says that his father once told of two teams leaving Salt Lake carrying a total of $30,000 worth, of the necessaries neces-saries of life. The recital of such wonders won-ders us this shows the remarkable development of this country in fifty years. |
