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Show logs were chinked with mud and the room was plastered with mud. Outside, above the door a sign read: "Z.C.M.I." Charles Hampshire and Olaf Sorensen were the clerks. One spoke English and the other Danish, so customers were understood and helped no matter which language they spoke. The store carried a variety in merchandise and people were able to buy about whatever they needed. All trading was done at that time by written order or printed due bills for which people traded their produce. The produce was freighted to Pioche, Nevada, and other mining towns where cash was received for all of it. Long trips were made with mule or horse teams, and the shorter trips with ox teams. It was seldom that a silver dollar was seen in Mt. Pleasant, but most people were productive and their produce was as valuable to them as money would have been. By 1878 it was found that the Z.C.M.I. building was inadequate for the volume of business, so a large, two-story building was completed on the corner opposite to the old log store chinked with mud. The brick used in the new building was made at a brick yard west of town, and was mixed by horse power. After forming the bricks, workmen covered them with burlap and sand until they were thoroughly dry. Then they Packed and burned the dried bricks for a week or two. Wood was hauled from the Cedar Hills for use in burning^ The 93 |