Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1868-10-31


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advic-. and wIth u thirty 10 one
hundred dollars Spirits Wer- sold
from ten dollars t. forty Go!lArs per
quart. sud wines at the >Ame per bot
tie. Board c1st eight dollars per
lay. or thirty dollars per week.
Every mouthful at dinner might be
valued at 4 dime. auG Il single hearty
meal would cost from two dollars 10
five dollars, according to quantity.
Pork and -four sold at four hundred
dollars a barrel. Thick boots cost
thirty dollars a pair. superior ones one
hundred dollars. Soilcd linen was
often thrown away rather than pay
twelve dollars to twenty per dozen
for washing. Laborcrs had one dol
lar an hour. Mechanics received
from twelve to twenty dollars per
day. Every brick in a house was
roughly estimated to cost ono dollar
before the building was finished, and
lumber rose to five hundred dollars
for ono thousand feet. Rents wers
correspondingly high. For a single
store of limited dimensions and rude.
ly constructed ofrough boards. three
hundred dollars per month was
charged. a certain two story frame
building, known rs the Parker
House, paid its owners one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars year
in rent. A gambling-saloon adjoin-
ing paid forty thousand dollars per
annum. Another small, building
which might have made moderate
sized farmhouse kitchen, was taken
by Wright & Co., brokers, under the
name Of Miners Bank at a yearly
rent Of seventy.fve thousand dol
lars. The United States Hotel paid
thirty-siX thousand dollars. A mer-
camille firm, for a onc-story building
of only twenty feet front, paid forty
thousand dollars, and seventy rhous-
and dollars per month was paid for
the Custom House. From eight to
fifteen per cent. month, with the
addition ofreal security was regularly
given in advance for the use of
money.
Now money can be obtained for
two per cent per mouth. board can
be had from seven to twelve dollars
per week, one dollar to five dollars
pays the doctor for extracting "a
jumping molar, twelve dollars pays
for No. one pair Of boots, and two
bits twenty-five csnts) pays Biddy
for washing yonr socks. Wages of
Mechanics arc down to four and six
dollars per day. Cooks have to be
content with sixty, eighty and one
hundred dollars per month, and ta-
BILE walters with thirty-tive or forty
dollars. Poor whisky is down to a
'bit' drink, and dinner for your.
self and mule costs but one dollar.
Rents have fallen off, A tolerable
store in San Francisco can be had
for one thousand dollars per month.
and a crack billiard saloon for half
that, while small, ont Of the way no.
tells and stores can be leased as low
"a two hundred dollars a month.
Everything now 10 moderate and
modest. except doctors and lawyers
fees, which know no abatement.
Lawyers fatten here. For crime and
litigation this country is without par
allel. Lawyers are full of jobs. with
heavy fees in advance for the exer-
else of their skill. talents and inge-
nni'v. This 10 still n vast country.
and Yoang America here finds
ample room 20 spread himseli-
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