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Show $100 a Keg for Nails. While standing watching the construction con-struction of a modern frame building, i and noticing the usual quota of nails on the ground, a pioneer turned to the writer and said: "Things aro not as they used to be. Do you notice these nails on the ground, the waste that cheapness makes possible? 1 Just tore down an outbuilding the other day, built when every nail In It cost live cents a piece. $100 a keg for nails was a customary price. In the dajs before the rail-loads rail-loads came Into this teirltory, 'nails were made by hand. Allleck & Croft had a blacksmith shop down wheie tho Smith Bros. Lumber Co. is now located and they made nails when the Iron was furnished them." What do the young people today know of such conditions? |