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Show 118 John Tanner and His I Family horseback and went ahead and I got there in the morning as they sweeping out their stores and I entered a small store and there was 2 bbls stood by the side of the door and I laid my hand on one of them and said, what is flour worth? He said he had been trying to sell them for $4.00 a barrel, but he could not get it. If I wanted that it was all he had, he would take $2.00 a barrel, that was what he gave for it. was on were I told him to let it stand, I might call for it. I then went into the other store and they met me very cordially and said I guess you have come to get your flour of me. Yes, on the terms you offered. Well you can't get it for less can you? I have had it offered me for $2.00 and if you want to let me have it for that I am ready to deal with you, otherwise I must trade where I can do best. Where can you get it for that? It would not be right for me to tell. I had it offered me for that money. He called his partner and they counseled together, urging me very hard to drink with them. I never drink, said I. They decided to let me have the flour if I would buy my dry goods and groceries of them. I told him I was buying for other men and must buy where I could do best. If he could do as well as others he had the same Well, you men they can chance. load up, says he. Well now do you want these other to load up under my contract, if so we will do it, otherwise will load at another place. They are my friends and you told them they could do them in.=w no better. You deceived them. Well, fetch It would appear that Nathan was a hard bargainer but it may be he was just getting even with their enemies in Missouri. Even this was not the last of his bargaining, but this is sufficient to illustrate his tenacity. His concluding comment about the trip for flour was: - "Thus I feel I was to the on able to save suffering Saints." And he the Missourians.'?' one-half the cost of might have our winter's flour added, "and put one over The Saints should have been most grateful to Nathan Tanner for this sharp dealing with their former persecutors. A barrel of flour was 196 pounds and this would have made the price one cent a pound. Probably never would a bargain come at a more opportune time than in the fall of 1846 while the Saints were camped on the shore of the Missouri River at Winter Quarters. There siderable incidents almost without number which were of con importance to the members of the Tanner family on the were |
