The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-10
scorcity OF Money in utah.

You have, says letter from Salt
Lake City, tight money markets some
times East. / have read how seni-sav-
age nations "barter." I saw it cited, as
a curious fact in the newspapers, that
in Georgia eggs are used as "small
change" but in Utah see around me a
people, a prosperous people, doing the
business of life without money at all.
In Salt Lake City itself, right in the
line of travel, there is some money; but
in the country settlements which radi-
ate thence into every valley and by ey-
cry water course for hundred miles,
it is literally true that they have no
circulating medium. Wheat is the
usual legal tender of the country
Horses, harness, vehicles, cattle and
hay are cash; eggs, butter, pistols,
knives, stockings, and whisky are
change; pumpkins, potatoes, sorghum,
molasses, and calves are "shinplasters," !"
which are taken at discount. and with
which the saints delight to pay their
debts Gf tisevera a delight TO pay debts.)
Business in this com muntty, with this
currency, is very curious and anus
ing pastime.
A peddler, for instance, could take
out his goods in carpet-bag, but
would need .'bull" train to freight
back his money. 1 knew man who
refused an otIer.to work in the country
at fifty dollars month, because he
would need a "forty hundred wagon
and four yoke of oxen" TO haul his
weeks wages to the whisky shop, thea
tire, &C., on Saturday evening. That
was AN Inconvenience, truly. And yet
the farmers in the country towns suffer
They cannot keep their big sons from
sneaking into the granary at night and
taking off "a half5buShel or so of wheat,
carrying it to the dram shop and hav-
ing "high." When a man once.lays
out his money in any kind of property,
it is next to impossible to reconvert 1t
into money. There is many man
here, who, when he first came into the
valley had no intention of remaining
but a. short time, but who got SO in
volved that he could never get away
without making heavy pecuniary sac
rifices. Properly is a PEoIeus, which
Won must continue TO grip firmly, not
withstanding his slippery change, until
you have him in his true shape-now
you have him as fine horse and saddle;
presto, he is only sixty gallons of
sorghum molasses; now he changes into
two cows and a calf, and before you
have time to think he is transformed
into hfteen cords of wood up in the
mountain canon; next he becomes a
yoke of oxen, then a 'shutler" wagoui
ha! is 1t about 10 slip from you at last
in the form of bad debts2
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ON N THE PASHAND1E..A cores
pondent of the Pittsburgh Commercial,
writing from Kings Greek, Hancock
county, w. Va, says: -s-4
"operatfons for the development of
the hidden treasure, oil, supposed to
exist in this locality, have been COM
menced with spirit this spring. Under
the stimulous of discoveries in other
parts, several companies have been
formed, and others are organizing.
Several wells are being bored on this
creek, and others VIII be commenced as
soon as spring fairly opens. The ex-
citement is considerably on the increase
now, by reason. of the discovery OF oil
ut Harden's Run, near this place. 1t is
not known at this time what the yield
| will be, but the owners feel confident OF