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Show CHAP. VI. PRICES AT GREAT SALT LAKE CITY. 321 where again it exceeds that of England. In Great Salt Lake City $10,000 (=£2000) per annum would be equal to about £500 in London. Fortunately for the poor, the excessive purity of the air, as in the Arabian Desert, enables them to dispense with, and not to miss, many articles, such as stimulants, which are elsewhere considered necessaries. The subjoined "nerripk" of prices current at the General Tithing Office in Great Salt Lake City will best explain the state of things in 1860. A remarkable feature, it will be observed, is the price of wheat-$1 50 per bushel-more thui double its current value in the Mississippian States.* *, General Tithing Office Prices Current, Great Salt Lake City: Wheat, extra produce tithing $1 50 $ bush, u labor and produce tithing. 2 00 Barley 1 50 1 50 1 50 1 00 Corn Rye. Oats Buckwheat 1 25 'Peas and beans 2 00 u Potatoes 0 75 " Beets 0 50 " Carrots 0 50 " Parsnips 0 50 " Onions 2 00 " Turnips 0 25 " Tomatoes 100 " Cabbages $0 02 @0 10 each. Pumpkins and squash 0 02 iiao 08 " Melons 0 02lf)0 10 " Cucumbers 0 01 " Pigs, four weeks old 3 00 " Chickens 0 10 @0 25 " Ducks 0 15 ©0 25 " Beef, 61 average. Hind quarter 0 07 $ lb. Fore " 0 06 " Tallow 0 10 @0 20 " Pork 0 1H@0 20 " Lard 0 15 @0 20 " Mutton $0 08 @0 12|$lb, Veal 0 03 <g>0 05 " Bear 0 08 @0 12i Tea 1 60 @3 50 Coffee 0 40 @0 60 Sugar 0 35 @0 60 Milk 0 10$qt. Eggs 0 18$doz. Butter 0 25 $ It. Cheese 0 12J@0 25 Salt, fine 0 04 Salt, coarse 0 10 Cast steel, warranted 0 37J@0 50 Spring steel 0 371 Blister steel 0 18 @0 30 Iron 0 10 Molasses, good 3 00 ^ gall. Vinegar 0 50 @0 75 " Lumber, extra produce tithing 4 00 $ 100. " labor tithing 5 00 " Shingles, best 10 00 $ 1000. " 2d quality 8 00 " Shingles, cotton-wood 8 00 " " 2d quality 6 00 " Doves 0 12Jeach. Turkeys 1 50 @2 50 " Fox and wolf skins 0 75 '* Ox hair .'.. 0 50$bush. EDWARD HUNTER, Presiding Bishop. |