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Show oo ill PRICES Pi M YEARS 1G0 Fred Foulger, a well-known pioneer business man, today exhibited to friends some merchandise invoices issued is-sued forty-eight years ago which show, as Heber Scowcroft said to him, that "it certainly cost something to carry a stock ol merchandise in 169. with sugar $21 a bag and other goods in proportion. In this age of high cost of living, invoices like those of 1869 look like overcharges." The invoices were issued by Zion's Co-operative Mercantile institution at Salt Lake, in September, 1869. for purchases pur-chases by the Twentieth church ward Some of the items are given below: Ono sack brown sugar. $22; 37 pounds cheese, $11.10; 300 pounds flour, $10.50; 86 pounds nails. $8 60; one dozen cans sardines, $4.75; one dozen brooms, $7 50; one box candles. $10; two boxes soap. $12.60; one box starch, ?J 15; 30 pounds bacon, $7.80; two dozen teaspoons, $8; two dozen yeast powder, $6 75; one box tea. $31; one sack sugar. $31; 5 pounds pear barley. $135; 5 dozen Coates' cotton thread, $5; one dozen circle combs, $2.40; one dozen lisle gloves, $5.40; 8 cotton parasols. $180; one dozen la dies' hose, $3.40; 2 dozen boys' cotton hose, $4.80; 10 pounds cotton batting. 14.25, etc. The bills are receipted as paid in full and signed by William Clayton, secretary. The documents bear the internal revenue stamp, in old gold color, with the portrait of Cenenil Wae nlngton, Honest ink was used in those good old days, for the lightest scratch of the pen on these invoices is in clear, indelible black, as it the bills were written yesiwday t |
