The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-09

plows used on their suburban estates are
as primitive as those of the ancient Egyp-
tlans.
SHE BOASTS OF FOUR BANKING HOUSES,
and the greatest Jesuit college in South
America, maintains costly theatre and a
line band to play at nights on the plaza
but on Beggar's day." every Saturday,
the streets literally swarm with licensed
merchants, until it seems as if half the pop
ulation are out soliciting aims
There goes public institution and a
| very necessary one-a bare footed, shock
headed fellow, following half dozen slim
legged donkeys, each donkey with two
| small barrels on It's back. He makes his
| living by selling water from house to house
at the rate OF l cent per bucket. His only
competitor is another fellow, who peram-
bulates the town with one barrel full from
the Bio-bio, loaded in a cart drawn by a
very small mule 10 which very large cow
! bell is attached. Here comes q scarcely
less common ''institUtion"-the turkey ped
der. He drives lot of shrill- voiced tur-
! keys before him, from street to street until
! all are sold. Ask him the price of one aud
he will probably reply: "Diez pesos cGds
ul!o, senior. $50 apiece, sir. Turn away,
and he shouts after you: 81 will take 81,
SIR" If
YOU STILL REMAIN oBDURATE
he will follow you with opportunities until
ne has dropped OF 8, and even down to 81.
he has been long time raising those tur-
keys-or rather his wife has-at great labor
for Gillian ''roto.n When sold, if all the
money does not go down his throat at once
In the form Of chicha, he will take the re-
mainder home to his family and they will
feast like lords for day or two. until every
cent is gone. Then his wife will go to mar
ket in the morning, contentedly as hereto
fore, and buy cents worth of -four, 2
cents worth of beans, l cents worth of
potatoes, and cents worth of fue, to sup
ply the household for the day. The Con-
cepcion market house was fitted up by the
city authorities. 1t occupies an entire
square, and within it country produce of all
kinds is bought and sold without the aid of
middle The producer brings or sends
his fruits, vegetables, butter and eggs, beef,
pigs, fish, clans, ETC., etc. and barriers them
off TO the best possible advantage. There
is no fixed price for anything-oh MOI for
in this country "beating down. Is the life
OF trade Take the popular article of sau-
sage, which here sells by the vara, or Span
ish yard-a vara being about three-quarters
OF an English yard. Being foreigner you
are not likely to getit for less than 30 cents,
though native is not expected to pay more
than 20 cents per varA
The market house generally overfiows,
especially in fruit time, SO that the side
walks ali around
THE SQUARE ARE BLOCKED BIZ soUATTING
WOMEN
with their wares spread out on the ground |!
for sale. Entering the building to the left !
we find the butchers, who cut all their meat
up into long strips as if they would sell it I
also by the yard. But they don't; they sell |
it by the chunk and guess at the weight. l
Porrerhouse, sirloin, rump steak, roast-it 1
is all the same to the butcher; into strips |
the whole creature must go to be chopped |
off into chunks to suit the purchasers /
needs.
Close by is clam stall. The woman in
charge has torn the CLAIMS from their shells !
and strung them on stems of grass, dozen
on q STEM Shs sells them at the rate of
three straws-thirty- six clams-for 10
cheap enough they are. To the
right are long rows Of fruit merchants,
mostly women. Splendid cherries-plump,
fresh and ruby red-are tied upon sticks in
q bunch SO closely that they resemble min
AZURE club balls. The price is un centavo
lone cent? for q stick, or about half pint
Of cherries. There are
HEAPS OF RIPE FIGS,
each about the size Of your fist-blsck. shin
ing and luscious-5 cents dozen, Wsterx