The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-19
Drygoods, Tea, Tobat,
Two Millstones a,
Uncovered.
WERE FREIGHTED ACl
PLAINS FIFTY YEi|
Cost 1890 to Bring I
stones the Long w,
Journey.

Truth is stranger than q
some Mormous are stranger 4
This axiom is brought to lI.
by a discovery made in Salt
on Friday, when an old All
and barn, adjoining the corno,|
West and First North streetr
ing demolished. and a large
of dry goods and tea and tolI
found stowed away in the hsI
ed to this list was a erist i
plete, and for over half a q
goods and mill have lain IN
almost unknown, until now
have erumbled into dust IN
According TO the story rcl
Tribune reporter, the outfit Y,
ed across the plains by a "a
ing TO Zion in 1852. The 3
sisted of calico. cotton.
cloths, some boots and shoe
cases of tea and tobacco.
mill5tones weigh about 600o|
In addition to other paraphsrn|
two great stones were draps|
weary, toilsome hundreds AZ
two span Of oxen-and for /
lie idle, useless and abandon.|
humanity cried out for such 4
". and in themselves ther-c1
the nucleus of a vast form.
that time tea was wcrth 45 p<-
calico sold for 90 cents r111|
and shoes were worth almoI
weight in gold. At that n
amount of tobacco you got "a
lar was Just the exact size Of /.
the coin was placed on the 4
the weed and cut to its eu
And yet through all these 81
stock OF goods lay in the 81
effort was made TO dispose
when they held for the own
tune in the open market.
Was There Open Ma,tl
But the question here saN
self, was there an open mari
this family Of liberty to a
these goods, which they had
brought for the purpose OF
store, in the open market or
ket? Or did they wait on ir !
that the time would come WI
prices would prevail? Thc
hardly creditable. As to thI
and with malice to no one.
that they were prohibited frd|
ing Of these wares.
Brigham Young had stor>
days and he also owned mil
Chase mill in Liberty park.
used his store to good adv
himself, it is said, He reed
Walkers, dry goods merch1
others In like business, tithinc
Brigham took these tithing
TO his store and sold them q
or paid them of in kind, and
well, And while the presi|
grinding that grlst mill 60
Saints might have their da1|
the one discovered yesterdsy
innocuous desuetude (this ph
not coined st that time), when
have been grinding the grid
honest and Industrious farmer
Cache Becomes Mystedo|
When the cost OF freight, hi|
ago. is considered, this cache
all the more mysterious. Ths
for freight across tine plains
cents per pound, or $22 a hundr
putting the weight Of the mill
5000 pounds, the cost Of q
would be S1320. That was
a fortune in those DAYS.
That prohibitive measures q
forth in the early days can
gainsaid. Oldtimers rsmem1
ukase issued by Brighsm
against tie raising of hogs. Il p
sidered unclean to eat pork An
order wes obeyed. But on a1
the sdncLihed area mrrpic11|
Eagle Cato Brigham had Z ~.
of hogs and he did not loa
either. Again, when Genera
army entered the valley in
Saints were prohibited rom
contracts from the ungodly, nn'
ham was always ready, WIN
anxious tc fill the bill when a q
was let.
Had Corner in Wheat.
And when in a rcmi1lscenI
another incident was related
Tribune Yesterday by IFS Pm
Away back In the early '5v
Faek was prosperous fan
resided GEAR where now 70
ner of West Temple and Ff'
streets. He had a large tract
land in Davis county where a'
ed with goodly grain crops
in the years of the famine
the destruction OF the crop
grasshoppers, to wit, 40. 90,
was aburdantly blessed.
had been magniiied. for his
spared IL him. and when
were desolation and gaunt
reveled in luxury. Brother
IDENTIFY and carefully garDs
stored his barn with flour:
the Saints came to buy II
like unto JOSEPH
brethren OF old-and John
a heifer calf for hundred
flour. OF money there was
John would have
for through the stores or ~
he had determined 10 wa
stock. John was kind
Letter with n corner in wle
How Corner Was Brok
Bnt alas for the fralliy
calculations; John was DOOM
appointment. One dark pign.
the brethren visited Brofne
granary and under the cove
darkness carried aws
his -four and the next morn
ne visited the barn he four
ner in wheat was broken an
, broken-hoarted man; all
IF avarice were shattered, anp
back 10 bis fields and coy
nerd of LETTERS and rejolced
we're left to him. together
abiding faith in the gospet
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